DESCRIPTION
More than just a charity
We create and deliver services that no other organisation possibly could. We stop homelessness before it happens and get people who have lived on the streets for years, off the streets for life.
Thorntree Street...
At Thorntree St. we provide individual homes in a communal living environment, for older people (50+) in partnership with Bield Housing Association. Our
community-members are men who have had a history of rough sleeping, living in insecure accommodation or homeless hostels.
How does Thorntree Street work?
Rowan Alba support isn’t about forcing residents into ‘conditions of stay’ such as engaging services they don’t want to use, or having to address dependency issues through therapy. It is THEIR home. Does your home come with those kind of personal conditions attached?
No one at Thorntree Street can be ‘thrown out’, or designated ‘unsuitable’ or too challenging. Many of the men who live in Thorntree Street have come from services where they had been described as having ‘behaviours unsuitable for the service’. We believe that this suggests that it was the other way around. ‘Services’ were unsuitable for them.
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