The Wallich is a leading homelessness and rough sleeping charity offering services across the majority of Wales.
With upwards of 150 people on Welsh streets and more than 11,000 people in temporary accommodation, The Wallich believes that everyone deserves the right to a home. But it’s also more than a roof over your head, everyone deserves the right to feel safe, to feel valued and to feel positive about their future.
A leader in co-production, The Wallich collaborates with people who use their services to move forward. Working in a trauma-informed way, they also create panels and platforms which enhance service user voice to inspire change and improve services.
The Wallich operates under three core objectives: getting people off the streets; keeping people off the streets; and creating opportunities for people.
Getting people off the streets
Its Rough Sleepers Intervention Teams (RSIT) help homeless people on our streets by providing outreach in the form of hot food, advice, referrals and pathways out of homelessness.
Drop-in services are a safe place to use facilities such as washing, emergency provisions, wi-fi and signposting.
Keeping people off the streets
The Wallich accommodation and support includes hostels and accommodation for people with specific issues such as substance use or poor mental health.
There are also services to help keep people in their homes when they are at risk of homelessness or poor wellbeing.
Creating opportunities for people
Learning and employment projects encourage the people supported by The Wallich to use their current skills or gain new ones in order to get back into volunteering, education or employment.
The Wallich provides training courses, volunteering opportunities and practical workshops to support people to become work-ready.
Sleepout to support the work of The Wallich
Whilst a sleepout doesn’t pretend to replicate what it’s like to spend a night on the streets but it does offer some perspective. The Wallich is working with its lived experience Shadow Board to ensure this event is inclusive to people experiencing homelessness.
The event hopes to have expert support workers from The Wallich and its Street Fleet vehicles, which will ensure that people rough sleeping in Cardiff can access support and aren’t excluded from the warmth, provisions and safety of the event.
The evening will include panels of speakers including people who have experienced homelessness and representatives from the services which support them.
In a climate where homelessness is at its highest in Wales, it’s important that Welsh homelessness charities, such as The Wallich, can continue to offer the support they do. Thank you to all who consider doing something about homelessness and taking on this challenge.
