Hope Housing Bridlington

Overview

Hope Housing Bridlington is a brand new charity, formed by the 20 Anglican churches of Bridlington Deanery – that is, the churches of Bridlington and its surrounding villages, on the coast of beautiful East Yorkshire. Our members are elected by the churches, and they in turn appoint the Trustees, who all have leadership roles in the churches. We share a mission to Reach, Grow and Sustain – that is, to reach people the churches aren’t reaching at the moment; to grow in numbers and depth of faith; and to sustain our work into the future by generous giving of time and money. Our object is the prevention or relief of poverty among homeless and poorly housed people in Bridlington and the surrounding district by the provision of accommodation and general counselling, mentoring, advice and signposting to relevant education and training. We aim to help people through a difficult stage in their lives so that they can move into independent living in due course. We want to do all this in the light of Christ and in his power, aiming to share our faith appropriately in words and action.

Achievements to date 

In February 2018 Pastor Pete and Carl Good from Lifeline came to speak to a group of people from all the churches, and there was widespread enthusiasm for the project.  Taking legal advice we decided to set up Hope Housing Bridlington as a charity, and after much form-filling we received our registration in the spring of 2019 and were accepted as a Green Pastures partner soon afterwards.  Church members have been generous in their giving from the word go, and we had a sizeable pot of money to work with before we’d even opened a bank account!  Green Pastures has bought us a three-bedroomed house to lease, which we are upgrading and equipping, and we have appointed a 15-hour-per-week Housing Support Officer. Other charities and agencies in the town are supporting us enthusiastically, and we will have no shortage of referrals of people to house.