We’ve partnered with Ipswich Housing Action Group (ihAg) to support local people facing the realities of having no safe space to call home. ihAg provides showers, hot food and drink – and somewhere for people to wash their clothes. Through their work with health, addiction, and other support agencies, they make sure basic human needs are met. They give advice and guidance to everyone who comes to their door for help.
Safe Homes for Suffolk.
In 1849 our founders set out to “improve the social position and promote the moral elevation of the unenfranchised population of this country”.
We are dedicated to continuing this ambitious mission, and reducing inequality across the county.
IMPACT
Working with partners to help provide safe homes.
We’re proud to be Suffolk through and through. That’s why we champion like-minded businesses and non-for-profit organisations to place ourselves at the heart of our communities. From sponsorships to financial education, we’re driven by doing what’s right, supporting our county and promoting all that is good.
We’re pleased to showcase some of the organisations we are currently supporting.
Supporting those with nowhere to call home
Avoiding social isolation and homelessness
We’re working with Emmaus Suffolk who provide front line services to those people facing the prospect of homelessness to try to prevent it happening. The charity supports those experiencing social exclusion or long-term unemployment. This is delivered through volunteering and work opportunities at their network of community cafes, house clearance services and up-cycling workshops.
Supporting those experiencing domestic abuse
We’ve established a partnership with Lighthouse, the Women’s Aid organisation, to support women impacted by domestic abuse and help with the provision of refuge accommodation.
Providing financial education
We’re supporting people to manage their money through an ambitious financial education programme, both in schools and elsewhere where we’re needed.
OUR WORK
Supporting our communities.
Our support for Safe Homes for Suffolk is backed up by our staff volunteering programme in which our employees have four paid hours every month in which to volunteer.
This offers employees different opportunities to use the time that they have available in a strategic and effective way, to most benefit each organisation. Staff are encouraged to volunteer with:
- Ipswich Housing Action Group – Supporting people to take action to help themselves keep their home.
- Emmaus Suffolk – working with vulnerable, socially isolated people and those at risk of homelessness across the county.
- Lighthouse – supporting women impacted by domestic abuse.
Staff can also volunteer for other organisations that are linked to our chosen United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Goal 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
- Goal 10 – Reducing inequalities
- Goal 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 13 – Climate Action
KEEP UP TO DATE
Safe Homes for Suffolk Campaign News.
Latest community news and information
Here’s where you can check out our latest news from our Safe Homes for Suffolk campaign to help reduce inequality across the county.
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A Special Book Signing Event at our Woodbridge Branch.
27th Nov 2023
Cheers to Community Collaboration!
10th Nov 2023
Talk Money Week 2023
6th Nov 2023
We’re Supporting Surviving Winter 2023/2024
27th Oct 2023
Society’s Charity Partner Emmaus Suffolk Opens Modular Homes
17th Oct 2023
Donations to our Safe Homes charities
25th Jul 2023
More about Us
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We’re proud to be a mutual organisation, founded in 1849 by a group of Ipswich business people to help the local community to prosper. It’s a simple ethos and one we are still rooted by today.