The Archer Project

At The Archer Project, we believe that people experiencing homelessness have plenty of skills, but they rarely have power. We don’t just create a world for people, we welcome them into ours. It is our experience, supported by research, that through building positive relationships, we can help people change their lives for the better. We do this by dividing our work into three streams: engagement, stabilisation and fulfilment. Engagement involves working with people who are sleeping rough and may be living more chaotic lifestyles. We work on building relationships and trust with these individuals so that we can help them begin to develop some form of routine. Our work at this stage is also focused on providing the basic necessities such as breakfast, lunch and food parcels, access to showers and laundry facilities, and medical facilities. One of our central aims is to help people build stability into their lives, this may be through helping them into accommodation, helping them secure benefits, or through our volunteering and/or activities programmes. Both the volunteering and activity programmes are aimed at helping build people’s self-confidence and self-worth as we aim to help people see that they are important and can achieve. The final element of our work is called fulfilment as it focuses on how people can create a stable and fulfilling life. Our social enterprises, Just Clean and Printed by Us, offer supported paid employment alongside a full wellbeing programme. For more information, check out our showcase pages. If your business is interested in supporting us or you would like to organise a fundraiser, then please do get in touch – we would love to hear from you!