Shelter Scotland invites you to join our very first Sleep Walk in Edinburgh, an informal, moderate walk through the city to raise awareness of homelessness, bad housing and the housing emergency in Edinburgh and across Scotland.
Who are we?
Shelter Scotland provides advice and support to anyone suffering from homelessness or bad housing. A home is a vital need, and we want to live in a society where everyone has access to a home that is safe, affordable and secure.
What is Time for Change?
Our Sleep Walk has been organised by our Time for Change peer mentors. Time for Change Edinburgh is an involvement, consultation and peer-led model that collects peoples’ feedback on their experiences of homelessness and bad housing in their local area, and uses this collective voice to co-design and deliver peer services and solutions to support what is found.
Through 120 Time for Change Edinburgh questionnaires completed so far, we found that the biggest homeless and housing issues for people are around their personal safety, the temporary accommodation situation, the impact on their mental health, and the lack of housing available.
Please share this event with friends and family, absolutely everyone is welcome, the more the merrier! Remember, it’s December, so dress appropriately for the weather.
This event is FREE to ensure it’s accessible to everyone. However, Shelter Scotland is a charity so if you would like to fundraise for this event, do contact Georgia Ramplin, Community Fundraiser at georgia_ramplin@shelter.org.uk for guidance and fundraising materials.
Lothian MSP Miles Briggs has signed up to Shelter Scotland’s campaign to ongoing campaign aimed at ensuring everyone has the right to a safe, secure and affordable home. Their campaign briefing has more detail on the aims of this campaign.
The campaign was launched after research conducted by YouGov for Shelter Scotland found that 88% of people surveyed agreed that everyone in Scotland should have a legal right to a safe, secure and affordable home and that 76% support a new law being created in Scotland for adequate housing for everyone in the country.
The research also found that 78% support Shelter Scotland campaigning for stronger human rights in relation to housing.
Miles Briggs, Scottish Conservative Lothian MSP, said:
“Everyone has the right to a decent, affordable home and this campaign would put that into law.
“That is why I am supporting the ‘Are You With Us’ campaign so that no child in Scotland becomes homeless.”
Launching the campaign, Graeme Brown, Director of Shelter Scotland, said:
“Too many people in Scotland don’t have access to the basic right of a decent and affordable home – which is simply wrong in the 21st century in one of the world’s wealthiest countries.
“There are more than 14,000 homeless children currently in Scotland and nearly 11,000 households in temporary accommodation. We also have rising numbers of people sleeping rough across the country. The evidence is clear – people’s rights to a home need to be significantly strengthened.
“Through this campaign we want the people of Scotland to know that a good home is their right – not a privilege – and it should be law.”
Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/sleepwalkedinburgh
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