Your Own Place is an award-winning social enterprise delivering Money, Housing, Tenancy and Employability support to prevent homelessness
Tenancy Skills
Our Tenancy Skills workshops, formerly known as TILS+ (Tenancy and Independent Living Skills), have been carefully developed and co-created with our Lived Experience Advisory Board over the past 13 years. Originally designed to meet a growing need that saw individuals becoming homeless through no fault of their own, often simply due to a lack of clear, accessible information. Our workshops offer a friendly and inclusive environment for people to boost their confidence, unlock existing skills and learn new ones, and gain knowledge for a sustainable future.
We offer modular group or 1-2-1 workshops with optional AQA certification.
We know that Housing, Money and Employment are all interlinked. We offer 24 modules covering a wide range of content that identify and build skills in these three key areas. Recognising how each supports the other can improve confidence in sustaining a tenancy. Workshop topics can be tailored in partnership with organisations or shaped directly by participants, ensuring the content is relevant, responsive, and focused on what matters most.
Our workshops can be delivered in a variety of formats:
– Three-day group workshops
– One-day group workshops
– Half-day group workshops
– Bitesized two-hour workshops
– 1-2-1 workshops
All offers can be delivered online or in-person. This ensures spaces are inclusive, accessible, and safe, so everyone feels comfortable participating.
People facing or experiencing a housing transition are at greater risk of homelessness, particularly within an inaccessible and expensive housing system.
Offering workshops for anyone wanting to gain the skills, knowledge, confidence, resilience, and connections means people are better prepared, can access housing and, ultimately, thrive in their homes.
We work with anyone who is facing or experiencing a housing transition. People starting a tenancy for the first time, in supported or temporary accommodation, care-experienced, leaving custody or long-term hospital, or anyone who wants to identify or learn skills needed to successfully manage their home/tenancy.
We can work with partners to identify the most appropriate locations. Our workshops can be delivered in schools and colleges, in supported accommodation, in community venues, online or in any space where people feel comfortable attending.
78%
of trainees leave our workshops feeling more confident about keeping their home
85%
of trainees leave our workshops with improved knowledge of how to manage their money
85%
of trainees leave our workshops with a greater understanding of their housing options
Our group workshops are built around peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing, ensuring participants leave armed with accurate information to make informed choices about their tenancies. We know that something magical happens when people come together with peers and realise they are not alone in experiencing challenges with a system that can feel confusing and often doesn’t fully support their needs.
The one-to-one sessions lend themselves to a more flexible, individualised approach, increasing engagement and accessibility for trainees with other commitments or specialist needs.
Participants leave workshops with greater confidence, a renewed sense of agency, and the belief that they didn’t lack capability, they just needed to find the right approach that works for them.
“It’s helped to uncover the positives that I already have, and I take for granted. I struggle with asking for help; that side of it, this whole process has really helped me learn self-advocacy and just asking for the help in an appropriate manner, and asking in the right places – there’s such a wealth of knowledge. I’ve already felt that knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied, and that is what really comes across at Your Own Place.”
– Broadland and South Norfolk District Council trainee
‘Just to update you about one of my goals I am pleased to inform I achieved and I paid off my rent arrears, thank you for all your help. I am so proud of myself, next goal is council tax’.
Our Mission
To prevent homelessness through innovation, collaboration, and the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive
Our Vision
Everyone has a safe and sustainable home
Get in Touch:
Office phone: 07927 433895
Email: ceo@yourownplace.org.uk
Your Own Place,
Level 4, Carrow House,
Norwich, NR1 2TG
©Your Own Place CIC. We are registered in England and Wales. Company number 08751344. All our profits go to back into the business.
