Danger that specialist support for women to leave prostitution behind being “undermined” Commonweal Housing releases a new report today...

A report issued today by Commonweal, calls on the government to act to tighten guidance to local councils around their responsibilities...

Six years on from the launch of Chrysalis, we are now asking whether a lack of support for women exiting prostitution still exists. To...

We have recently commissioned Professor Anne Power and Dr Bert Provan at the London School of Economics (LSE) to report on the housing...

Commonweal releases interim findings of an independent, four year evaluation of the pilot Peer Landlord shared housing model.

The Peer Landlord scheme has now been up and running for over two years. That’s two years of offering tenants a shared, reasonably priced...

Our new report ‘Rough Justice: uncovering social policies that create homelessness’   brings to light the public policies that are...

A blog from Elizabeth Owen, Re-unite Development Manager. One of the first lessons I was taught when training to be a project manager...

When Re-Unite first met 33 year old Mary* from Greater Manchester she was serving a three year prison term. Mary was referred to us by...

Bill Tidnam from Thames Reach blogs about the Peer Landlord project.

The Peer Landlord scheme continues to provide high-quality, affordable and supportive private accommodation for those at risk of becoming...

Commonweal’s Peer Landlord project is set to shift up a gear, with great results and £1.5m in social investment, reports CEO Ashley Horsey.

26th March 2013 - A syndicate of social investors comprising the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Trust for London have joined forces to back a project which will test a new shared housing model to help those who have suffered from homelessness and social exclusion.

Commonweal and St Mungo’s have jointly delivered the Chrysalis project since 2009. Here we present the findings of our evaluation of the project that helps women exit street prostitution.

We like you to hear about the people Commonweal projects support: meet Harry* - a tenant accessing the Peer Landlord project delivered with our partner, Thames Reach

Continued success of Commonweal’s flagship Re-Unite project now sees it running in five regions across England, supporting more and more women to reunite with their children when released from prison.

Caroline Tulloch, Investment Manager at Bridges Ventures, explains why this social investor has joined with others to acquire properties for the Peer Landlord project.

The evaluation report on Commonweal’s Chrysalis project has been published. The report produced by Prof. Roger Matthews and Helen Easton for the University of Kent confirms the positive impact the Chrysalis model and especially the Commonweal transitional flats has made to those women on the programme seeking to escape from a life of street based prostitution.

The Charities Evaluation Service have assessed our organisation and awarded us the PQASSO Quality Mark at level 2. The assessment process reviewed our entire organisation, our processes our staff and our Board members and assessed whether we were an organisation committed to quality and learning.

Diana* had a bad start to the year. She suffered from depression and was finding it very difficult to adjust to having her two sons back in her full time care following time in prison.

Here Helen Easton, Senior Research Fellow of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Research Group at the London South Bank University, shares current findings from the Chrysalis Project.

Re-Unite, Commonweal’s flagship project, continues to go from strength to strength. Here we find out how it is being delivered in other parts of the UK.

The three-year evaluation of the Re-Unite Project undertaken by the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University is now available for you to read.

St.Mungo's and Commonweal sign agreements for the Chrysalis project.