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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 our Chief Operating Officer (COO), Jess Luce-Rackham shares about her experience of organisational and leadership change. Over the […]

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 […]

“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.”

Emily is a full-time facilitator at Your Own Place. She joined the company in the post-Covid haze of April 2021. “This week it’s been confirmed for me that it isn’t all an elaborate prank. Rebecca White, CEO and Founder of Your Own Place CIC is moving on to pastures new. As a team we’ve grappled […]

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. […]

Emily is a full-time facilitator at Your Own Place. She’s currently working on a variety of projects, including facilitating flexible workshops at different Supported Housing Schemes in Colchester, and supporting individuals accessing Food Hubs in and around Norwich. Walking back into the training room at Emmaus Norfolk and Waveney, I am filled with joy. I […]

Well now you can with Train the Trainer dates now available from July With our flexible Train the Trainer offer there is now the opportunity to embed the Your Own Place tenancy sustainment and money support approaches and knowledge in your organisation as well as have access to a vault of resources, workshop plans and […]

Throughout our ten years, Your Own Place has been driven by people, values and impact. The Board of Non-Executive Directors is now seeking to appoint a new CEO to lead this social business into its next decade. We know that CEO/founder shoes can feel like big shoes to fill, we also know that when people […]

On 31st August this year Rebecca, CEO and founder of Your Own Place CIC, will be leaving to pastures new, leaving behind an organisation that has impacted 1000s of lives in its quest to prevent homelessness – near and far.  Working as a trading social enterprise, Your Own Place counts all sectors among its friends, customers and […]

It’s time. Your Own Place has made the not-so-difficult decision to leave X, formerly known as Twitter. Personally, when I started out in 2013, I enjoyed Twitter. It was a place of connection, learning, ideas and positive novelty. We even picked up customers and partners who interacted with our work. We have seen this be […]