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Our Principles
These are our ways of operating - priorities that make our offering unique and effective. We call it the 'Just Homes Way'.
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We invite people into our homes when we are sure we can help them, and we invite them into dignity.
Each person receives a full move-in pack – fresh bedding, toiletries, and essential kitchen items – so they can settle in with comfort and privacy. Free food is always available.
These provisions are simple and vital. They help the residents to feel human again: respected, safe and comfortable.
Though many would settle for just four walls and a roof, we provide a home for residents: warm, safe and taken care of by every resident and staff member.
Each resident takes responsibility in helping to run the home. Establishing the skills and routines that are essential to independent living and keep the house clean restores a sense of personal responsibility, which builds self-respect.
We do this because we believe that actively nurturing your environment sets the right tone for what is to come.
We provide everything our clients need to restore their physical and mental condition, but connection is the essential ingredient.
Nutritious home-cooked meals are prepared and shared together in each home's kitchen. The sense of family this creates is a vital ingredient in each resident's journey.
Being with residents as they make sense of the choices and circumstances that led them here builds deep trust: this is the foundation for all our support.
Powerful yet unrealistic dreams have often drawn people to the UK and keep a tight grip on them in their early days here. We help residents understand what’s achievable through understanding their options, opportunities, and the real-world constraints
We help residents face the realities of life and also encourage them to work towards their dreams with practical steps.
Through the stability of our homes and the visible progress of others in a similar place to them, residents begin to lift their heads and dream again.
For anyone on a low income, living within their means is essential for long-term independence and avoiding homelessness. Financial resilience is a core part of our support.
We help residents look at their spending habits, identify destructive financial cycles. and then build realistic budgets and disciplines to help break the cycle of poverty.
Confidence and capability return, and most of our clients are able to save in order to move into private rented accommodation when their time with us is over, establishing robust patterns for their new future.
We help residents develop the practical skills and essential routines they need for indepdendent living. Small goals become micro-celebrations: keeping their home clean and safe, learning basic DIY and maintenance, managing a budget, paying rent and utility bills.
Our training can cover anything from how to make a simple meal, change a hoover bag, to applying for a job online.
Whatever their dream is, we practically prepare them to realise it. Everything is about moving forward positively and confidently.
When clients leave our care, it's a positive step into a realistic new future. They hold the responsibility for. And they are ready for it.
Most of our residents successfully move into private rented accommodation or back to family or friends because they have a renewed ability to be a stable, functional, and positive presence in the home.
We celebrate when we hear that they are beginning to flourish in the outside world, living independently, with a fuller life.
"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?" Isaiah 58 6-7
