2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH SiMPACT Strategy Group is a leading expert on measuring and valuing social impact. SiMPACT builds capacity in social impact and valuation through a variety of courses. These include social return on investment...
SUMMARY OF UK RESEARCH The End Furniture Poverty campaign was launched to research the issue of Furniture Poverty, in order to raise awareness, to educate people about the potential solutions to Furniture Poverty and, ultimately,...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH The Furniture Reuse Network (FRN) is the leading representative of the social economy reuse sector in the UK. Now renamed the Reuse Network it supports more than 150 reuse charities across the...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Featuring a Furniture Bank Network (FBN) Member: IMPACT Junk Solutions & Furniture Bank Social determinants of health such as housing and income have a large impact on mental health. Community-based initiatives have...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Furniture poverty describes the crippling condition, or the inability to afford basic items of furniture that meet a dignified standard of living. It is often a silent issue because its prevalence is...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Some UK coverage about furniture poverty and the rise of the crisis behind closed doors. Without [furniture banks] high-cost rent-to-own lenders can be very tempting, despite interest rates of up to 94%....
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Lyndsey Latarche is the founder and director of All Small Things. All Small Things (AST), an online retailer was created to offer an alternative buying option for families and individuals on low-incomes. AST...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This article presents a case study that explores the creation of value by a social enterprise, Furniture Bank, for its stakeholders. The study is undertaken using the social return on investment framework....
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This paper, jointly produced by EndFurniturePoverty.Org and the Human City Institute, is a first step in EndFurniturePoverty.Org’s Furnishing Homes, Furnishing Lives campaign to promote furnished tenancies in the social housing sector. The paper...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This study examined the types of housing features considered important to a sample of homeless persons diagnosed with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder and the relationship between the degree to...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Permanent supportive housing provides safe, stable housing for people with mental and substance use disorders who are homeless or disabled. This article describes permanent supportive housing and reviews research. Key elements of...
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH One of the best and only longitudinal studies that illustrates the impact of good furnishing support services through a furniture bank. There are now 3.8 million households in the UK living in...
