Happydays Ministries UK

Hope for the homeless through community and social enterprise

Happy Days promotes supported community living and social enterprise. Our key aim is to support the homeless and vulnerable to live in safe and welcoming communities and together provide opportunities such as work experience, volunteering and support to help us prosper as a community.

Why the community needs us
We offer safe and supported accommodation within a community setting, and run two social enterprise schemes (Happydays Cycles & Happydays Cafe) which raise funds for our work and offer volunteering opportunities to our residents. We aim to model what we do elsewhere and develop partnerships to create more housing schemes that will help us to reduce homelessness.

Our impact on the community
Happy Days UK is a homeless charity providing accommodation, support and move on opportunities to homeless males within Calderdale and Kirklees. Our referrals come from the local authority and other agencies that work with adults at risk.

We assist residents through an intensive person-centred support programme to help them live independent purposeful lives. We offer a programme of meaningful activities both in educational support and activities to support social wellbeing, such as art, cooking, IT skills, money management right through to holistic therapies supporting mental health. To help the residents, achieve independent living we encourage volunteering opportunities to learn new skills and routes into employment.

We currently have four houses in Halifax where we provide shared accommodation and intensive support for fifteen men. We also have single occupancy accommodation for 68 people, here we offer light-touch support and can act as move on support for the intensively supported residents when they are ready for more independent living. In Huddersfield, we have four houses that can house twelve men offering intensive support and an abstinence house for six men.

What your gift could provide

£10

Helps Pay for a joint meal at one of our community living schemes

£20

Helps to run a mentor scheme

£30

Pays for a 1-1 session with one of our amazing Community Housing Workers

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