FLIC was an eight-year Lottery funded learning programme, designed to support people experiencing multiple disadvantage and affect system change to improve the experience and outcomes for people accessing services.
Too often the voices of people experiencing multiple disadvantage aren't heard. Putting clients at the centre of everything we do was key to our work. Our support service was intensive, trauma-informed and led by the experiences and insights of our clients.
We worked in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies across both boroughs to improve services for people with multiple needs and drive systemic change, influencing how services are designed and delivered.
All too often, people with complex needs feel they don’t have a say in matters that affect them. Empowering service users to influence the way that services are designed and commissioned is a key priority for FLIC. We put the perspectives of people with lived experience of complex needs at the centre of our project, capturing their voices and using their input to make a case for change.
From having someone there to listen and show there are other options, to not being judged or pushed into speaking out, a survivor shares their experience of support and highlights the importance of support. Read more
Our women clients share experiences of homelessness, substance use, gender-based violence and hidden homelessness. Read more
FLIC's Co-Producers explore the elements needed for sucessful co-production to improve the lives of people experienicng Multiple Disadvantage. Read more
FLIC and Standing Together are passionate about ensuring survivors of domestic abuse receive the support they need, and we know that identifying and working with perpetrators plays a crucial part in this. Read more
We're passionate about the value of Peer Mentoring, lived experience cannot be taught. In this short film Camden & Islington's Peer Involvement Network reflect on the power and potential of peer working. Read more
For International Women's Day 2022 the team reflect on the women they work with, how they continue to inspire them and what misconceptions around women's homelessness they'd like to see banished. Read more
The PIN’s debut event demonstrates the importance of peer working with insights and stories of lived experience, advocate for the need for more opportunities and share the PIN's shared values. Read more
In this short film women share their experiences of hidden homelessness. Thank you to the women who shared their experiences, whose insights and recommendations will influence homelessness support and provision for others. Read more
The FLIC team reflect on the process of researching women's homelessness in Camden and the need for all homelessness services to have a strategy specific to the needs of women. Read more
Our report with University of York reveals that women's homelessness occurs at a far greater scale than is generally recognised and that systemic failures leave women in a state of survival. Read more