Funding Partners

The Supporting People programme offers vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life by providing a stable environment which enables greater independence. Working in partnership with local authorities, service users and support agencies (such as Step by Step), its aim is to deliver strategic, high quality, reliable housing-related services to complement existing care services.

Supporting People provide funding for several of our projects and services.

Awards for All England is supported by the Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. They award grants to enable people to participate in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.

The logo says it all! v exists to inspire a new generation of young volunteers (aged 16-25) in England and enable a lasting change in the quality, quantity and diversity of youth volunteering.

V are supporting our new Dr Al project.

BBC Children in Need needs no introduction: the annual extravaganza in November provides great entertainment and last year raised over £19 million for a wide variety of good causes.

Step by Step have received a grant spread over three years in support of our Daylight project

UFI Ltd (University for Industry) is the body behind the LearnDirect, which has a mission to use technology to transform the skills and employability of the working population, in order to improve the UK’s productivity.

UFI support our Cybershed project

The Triangle Trust
1949 Fund

The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund is a charity which makes grants for a variety of projects, including community arts and education.

Lankelly Chase award grants across a wide range of community projects, including support for the arts, developing communities, offenders, and refugees and asylum seekers.

Step by Step received a grant as part of Lankelly Chase's 'Breaking the cycle of Abusive relationships' initiative.

This Fund is dedicated to continuing the work of Michael Varah, a Chief Probation Officer and charity founder. The Fund supports charities working in the areas of disadvantage and social exclusion, crime prevention (including rehabilitation work with ex-offenders), homelessness and poverty, and human rights.

Our Employment & Education project has benefited from this Fund.

The Hyde Group is a leading provider of affordable housing, making a significant contribution to meeting housing needs and improving people's quality of life to over 100,000 people in London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.

Several of our accommodation units are owned and managed by them.

Connexions is a nationwide organisation supporting young people aged 13-19 in a wide variety of ways, including advice on jobs, relationships, legal rights and health.

This is done via the Connexions Direct website, and by local Connexions partnerships providing a physical presence, such as drop-in centres. The South Central partnership covers Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

This trust supports our Youth Development project.

Part of Hampshire County Council's Children's Services, the Hampshire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership vision is that by 2010, all young people in Hampshire will be well supported through education and high quality services so that they can make informed decisions about relationships, sex, parenthood and sexual health, whilst those who become teenage parents will be actively supported to reach their potential in society.

Sentinel Housing Association provides housing in the north and east Hampshire and west Surrey, with more than 7,600 homes concentrated in Basingstoke, Fleet, Aldershot and Farnborough.
They are the owners of our new purpose-designed building currently being built in Crimea Way.

The Crime Prevention Panel have provided support for our Youth Development project

Although The Foyer Federation does not provide funding for Step by Step, it provides a valuable forum for sharing best practice and accessing funding, training and a range of support. It also provides a voice through which we can speak about the problems of homeless and disadvantaged people.

There are over 130 local Foyers supporting more than 10,000 homeless 16 to 25 year-olds each year, giving them a chance to realise their full potential. They enable young people at risk to escape the ‘no home-no job-no home’ cycle by delivering a holistic service that integrates accommodation with training, job search, personal support and motivation.

The Hilton in the Community Foundation has generously funded part of the costs for the second-stage accommodation in our new Crimea Road building.