A challenging and inspiring year

It Takes A City publish a summary of their activities and outcomes for 2021-22

Front cover of Somewhere To Call Home report

The team says:

The last twelve months have been challenging and inspiring for our team and amazing network of partners. We have produced Somewhere to call home, detailing how ITAC has developed and grown during 2021-22.

The year saw further progress in our mission to bring the community together, working in partnership with local authorities, established agencies and new organisations, bringing in new resources and new ideas.

We developed two new service offers:

  • Support to former rough sleepers housed in the private rented sector, as part of the government funded Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme.
  • A new winter offer of 24/7 en-suite accommodation for rough sleepers, replacing the traditional “cold weather and communal floors” model. During the winter 60 rough sleepers were supported and over 40 successfully moved on into next stage accommodation.

We continued to support and bring together groups focused on women’s homelessness, on lived experience, on new modular housing schemes, on community initiatives, on social investment and on those with multiple disadvantages.

We started a development aimed at the most vulnerable female rough sleepers.

We launched a newsletter to showcase the work of partner agencies.

We researched the potential of social investment to provide sustained capital for modular housing schemes.

Our information website, Street Support Cambridgeshire, continued to grow.

Income for the charity grew to £213,267 for the year due to the growth in services delivered, mainly funded from restricted grants and contracted payments. As in previous years, we did not undertake any meaningful public fund-raising.

We acknowledge with thanks grants from Cambridge City Council, from DLUHC/HomelessLink/Housing Justice, and from NPT Transatlantic, together with some substantial individual donations, which supported our key projects during the year.

We also acknowledge with thanks the large number of organisations and volunteers that we have worked with during the year, too many to record in detail but without whom It Takes a City would not exist.



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