Housing & Homelessness Health & Wellbeing 2024
SIFA Fireside

Impact Report 2024-25

SIFA Fireside is Birmingham's main homelessness support service for adults over 25, operating a day centre and wide range of specialist services. Their 2024-25 impact report covers rough sleeping response, NRPF support, peer mentoring and a major Accommodation Support Hub contract serving 1,564 people.

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Report snapshot
1,564 individuals positively affected through Accommodation Support Hub services Key Metric 1
1,358 critical referrals made to specialist services during Year 4 of ASH contract Key Metric 2
Specialist mental health IAG work delivered through partnership with Birmingham MIND Key Metric 3
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Day centre support, outreach, rough sleeping response, exempt accommodation support, restricted eligibility support for NRPF clients, peer mentoring, recovery services

📊Key Metrics

1,564 individuals positively affected through Accommodation Support Hub services Key Metric 1
1,358 critical referrals made to specialist services during Year 4 of ASH contract Key Metric 2
Specialist mental health IAG work delivered through partnership with Birmingham MIND Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • People rough sleeping or in emergency supported through Digbeth day centre
  • People with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) supported with passport retrieval, medical forms and translation
  • Peer mentors bridging gap between street community and service engagement

📍Geography

West Midlands

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