Furness Homeless Support Group

04/06/2026

It’s National Volunteers Week! Today we celebrated our volunteers by having an afternoon get together for those that were able to join us.
Whether it’s helping out in our charity shop, giving up a Christmas Day to help out out in our day centre, cooking in our kitchen each week, or serving on our Management Board, they are all making an extraordinary difference!

So THANK YOU to each and every one of our volunteers! You give your time, your energy, your skills, your patience… and sometimes your sanity!
Our charity was built by volunteers, so they are our very foundation and we simply couldn’t exist without them! 🌟👏🏻🌟👏🏻🌟👏🏻🌟👏🏻🌟👏🏻

21/05/2026

✨✨✨ JOB VACANCY!! ✨✨✨
Furness Homeless Support Group (FHSG) is looking for bank staff/relief workers to cover staff holidays/sickness, with scope for 14-16 regular hours every other weekend. Shifts to cover will mainly include evenings, weekends, and sleepovers and will involve lone working (with support only a phone call away when needed!).
We run 14 units of supported accommodation and you will be working alongside residents in our shared supported accommodation and dispersed properties to ensure they receive practical and emotional support. This would include helping residents to develop routines and household skills, assisting them to link in with other services, or simply a chat over a coffee.
You don’t necessarily need to currently have a relevant qualification, but you do need a willingness to learn, the ability to support and enable others, enthusiasm, a proactive nature, be trustworthy and friendly yet able to maintain professional boundaries, and have empathy and compassion for those who have been through some rough times.
Our residents could have experienced anything from mental health issues, learning difficulties, abuse, debt, recovering from addiction etc.
We are a small team but we are staffed 24-7. Our rota continues throughout the year, including Christmas, so please bear that in mind if you apply! Any offer of employment will be conditional on the completion of an enhanced DBS check.
If you think this is something you may be interested in, please email us at [email protected] to request an application pack.

19/05/2026

Busy day Centre lunch today! We were joined by the ICC to do health checks whilst everyone enjoyed sausage and mash cooked by Chef Paul 👨‍🍳

23/04/2026

Our food supplies are running really low, are you able to help?

We feed around 30 people each Tuesday but to continue doing this we really need to replenish our supplies.

Donations can be brought to our Day Centre, Monday-Friday 9-5.

Thank you 😊

14/04/2026

Sausage, veg, and roast potatoes today! (Veggie option as always!)
LOOK AT THOSE ROAST POTATOES THOUGH!!!

12/04/2026

Our lovely Saturday support worker made cheesecake Easter eggs yesterday. What a lovely little treat to come into on a Sunday 🥰

04/04/2026

If you’re looking for something to do over the Easter holidays why not pop along to Ford Park, Ulverston to have a look around the Scarecrow Festival. Our staff and residents worked hard to make our very own friendly faced Wurzel come to life! - ‘There’s no place like Furness HOMEless Support Group. See what we did there?! 😬.
All the scarecrows look brilliant and there’s charity buckets around so you can pop in a donation if you feel so inclined! (I think our QR code is ever so slightly rain damaged 😐).

20/03/2026

Did you know there are easy ways you can donate to us, if you so wish!? You can even do it while you shop online!
As well as Just Giving, we are now part of Give as you Live. On this platform you can make a one off donation, set up a regular monthly donation, or if you shop through the site the retailer will make a donation without you spending a penny extra! (Thousands of retailers are involved such as Tesco, M&S, Argos, Ebay, Boots etc.).
We are hoping to continue running Rosie’s Room throughout the year (we also have to now pay for the installation of a new multipoint as the previous one exploded 😬). Any funds raised will help us do this, and more! Your support, as always, is very much appreciated!!

Donate to Furness Homeless Support Group with Give as you Live Donate - make one-off or monthly donation, or start fundraising by creating a Fundraising Page to support their vital work.

19/03/2026

3 weeks in and we don’t know how we coped without this fella!! He’s even learning to not bang his head on the hanging utensils! 😬
Pasta bake and garlic bread this week and it went down very well indeed! 😋