Homelessness

About the Service

St James’ manages a range of hostels, supported shared houses and independent flats across Southampton, offering a total of 303 bedspaces across our services. We give our residents much more than just a roof over their heads. We give them a chance at a new future.

Our staff help residents to take steps towards a more fulfilling future. This might involve getting in touch with any specialist support that they need (like drugs centres or mental health support groups), developing their budgeting or cooking skills, enrolling them at a local college or university, encouraging them to take part in art or music classes, or helping them start some paid or voluntary work.

How do service users access the service?

Admission to all of Southampton’s homelessness services is carefully co-ordinated to ensure that places are allocated to those in greatest need. People who wish to access the Society’s supported housing should start by contacting the Street Homeless Prevention Team, by phoning:
023 8021 6000.

66% - our target for people leaving our homelessness service in a positive, planned way in 09-10

70% - our target for 2010-11

81.6% - the average of positive planned move-ons in Southampton's homelessness services

85.3% - the percentage of positive planned move-ons that we achieved in the first half of 09/10