Supplement 30 (Winter 2007).

The Homeless Community - Speaking for themselves
Habiba Nabatu, Equal Contract Manager - OSW
Background - The Empowerment and Innovation Fund
The Empowerment and Innovation Fund was set up by Off the Streets and into Work (OSW), using funding from the European Social Fund under the Equal Community Initiative Programme, to provide support to organisations to set up innovative projects led, shaped or influenced by homeless people, to improve their employability. Projects created through the Empowerment and Innovation Fund had to fit the criteria of strengthening the sustainability of self-employment, volunteering or social enterprise, and had to present a new methodology or way of working, which was neither a replica nor a continuation...

