Your Own Place is an award-winning social enterprise delivering Money, Housing, Tenancy and Employability support to prevent homelessness
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Working Restoratively: Why It’s Vital to Our Mission of Preventing Homelessness
Each quarter a member of the Your Own Place team is going to share an insight into their role at Your Own Place and what they have recently been up to as part of it. This quarter Facilitator and Office Manager, Bianca, reaches her fourth year at Your Own Place and has taken time to…
Beyond the Screen: Top Three Tips for Delivering Values-Led Workshops Online
Each quarter a member of the Your Own Place team is going to share an insight into their role at Your Own Place and what they have recently been up to as part of it. This quarter Facilitator, Caroline shares about her experience in navigating the realm of online delivery in a world where Zoom…
Honest reflections of a new CEO
Following on from her interview welcoming Zoe as our new CEO, facilitator Emily reconnected with Zoe, six months on, to hear about her reflections on becoming Chief Executive Officer of a social enterprise. Hi Zoe! Before we get started with the serious reflective questions, some quick-fires for you: What’s your most-used emoji? 😂 Fruit or…
Partner Insights: Rebecca Claydon
Emily caught up with Rebecca Claydon, Customer Voice Lead at Freebridge Community Housing, to find out more about Rebecca’s background, top tips for championing customer voice and, what we really need to know, what weapon she’d use in a zombie apocalypse! “Rebecca meets with either me or Beth (facilitator at Your Own Place) on a…
Introducing Zoe, new CEO of Your Own Place
“I’m a massive believer in homelessness prevention and a massive believer in early intervention. Insecure housing and homelessness creates trauma – trauma that prevention can avoid. If we invest in prevention, it pays dividends.”
So that’s a wrap
Waking up at 5am, my immovable exercise hour at 6am, probably a quality coffee in the sunshine (the past is always sunny) and then the usual day of team support, planning a workshop of some kind, signing off a report, doing some finance, troubleshooting and meeting a potential customer, likely after the fifth chasing email.…
