Housing & Homelessness Health & Wellbeing 2025
The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields

The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields Annual Report 2024-25

The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields supports people sleeping rough in Westminster — the most concentrated area of rough sleeping in the UK. In 2024-25, the charity supported 1,417 people, made 1,034 street contacts, provided nearly 15,000 meals and helped 162 people into new accommodation. Operating from its Adelaide Street centre beside Trafalgar Square, The Connection combines practical crisis support with trauma-informed casework, health inreach and an ambitious new Solo Homes accommodation programme.

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📋About

Street Engagement Team (daytime outreach); Adelaide Street day centre (showers, laundry, hot meals, computers, telephones); Enhanced Support Service (intensive one-to-one casework); Recovery Programme (groups and activities); Outreach Prescribing Clinic (flexible drug and alcohol treatment); Solo Homes accommodation programme; health inreach (nurses, dentistry, podiatry); migration status support; reconnection and onward referral

📊Key Metrics

1,417 people supported on their journey away from homelessness in 2024-25; 1,353 welcomed into the centre to use essential services Key Metric 1
1,034 street contacts made with 296 people during outreach shifts; 162 people moved into new accommodation — up from 122 the previous year Key Metric 2
2,612 people slept rough for at least one night in Westminster in 2024-25 — a 24% increase on the previous year Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 162 people moved into new accommodation; 230 people took part in group activities through the Recovery Programme; 22 people supported into work opportunities
  • 14,913 meals provided; 7,213 showers; 2,766 laundry sessions; 124 people helped with migration status — up from 108 the previous year
  • 58 people supported through the Outreach Prescribing Clinic for drug and alcohol treatment; first Solo Homes client moved into long-term tenancy in March 2025; target set to house 300 people in their own tenancies by 2028

📍Geography

London

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