Fulfilling Lives in Islington and Camden

Fulfilling Lives in Islington & Camden (FLIC) has now closed its doors. However, all of our news, learnings and reports can be found here, and our clients' voices and films can be found here.

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.

If you have any questions, please email Lucy Campbell ([email protected]), SHP's head of Multiple Disadvantage Transformation.

Webinar: Addressing Leg Ulceration as a Physical Health Need for People Experiencing Homelessness

In 2019-20 FLIC and CHIP worked together delivering two projects that piloted targeted health interventions with homeless (or ex-homeless) people with significant unmet health needs. One project delivered a nurse-in-reach role across the Camden hostels pathways and the other delivered specialist wound-care interventions.

On Thursday 18th March we shared learnings and insights from our wound care pilot. Below you'll find a recording of the event including and here you can find a report with all the key recommendations.

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Celal's story

Celal had built a life for himself in London, but it all fell apart during the pandemic. His work ran out, and he lost his flat. Celal felt he had nowhere else to turn and started sleeping on the street. We offered Celal a place to regroup, giving the support he needed to get back on his feet. Now, he's pursuing his passion for acting again and hoping to star in a full-length film.
Why homelessness is not a lifestyle choice

Suella Braverman recently described rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” when she defended her decision to restrict the use of tents by people sleeping rough.
How to help homeless people this winter

We've made a list of 10 things you can do to help someone facing homelessness this winter.
How does racism and discrimination cause homelessness?

People from black and ethnic backgrounds are more likely to be homeless, live in deprived neighbourhoods and poor quality homes. But why? Historical factors, specific policies, and social welfare drive inequality, and we need positive changes to address the balance.

A Survivor Speaks: A Story of Domestic Abuse, Opening Up and Getting Support

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.
Women Share their Experiences of Homelessness

Our women clients share experiences of homelessness, substance use, gender-based violence and hidden homelessness.
FLIC Co-Producers In Conversation: The Ingredients for Successful, Sustainable Co-Production

FLIC's Co-Producers explore the elements needed for sucessful co-production to improve the lives of people experienicng Multiple Disadvantage.
Webinar: FLIC & Standing Together on Supporting Perpetrators and Survivors of DA in Homelessness Settings

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.
PINspiring: Peer Stories in Camden & Islington

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.
International Women's Day: FLIC Break the Bias

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.
Webinar: The Power and Potential of Peers with Camden & Islington's Peer Involvement Network

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.
Hidden Homelessness: The Experiences of Women in Camden

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.
The Team and Clients Reflect on Women's Homelessness in Camden

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.
Webinar: Improving Outcomes for Women Surviving Homelessness

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.

How can you enter the 2023 London Marathon?

Want to run the London Marathon in 2023? Here's how- there is a free public ballot for the 2023 event and if you are unsuccessful you can always grab a charity space with Single Homeless Project.
Map of our services

Use our interactive map to see where we work on the ground
Our mission, vision & values

Our mission, vision and values inspire and challenge us as an organisation.
Swim Serpentine 2023

Morning slots available! Jump in for London’s premier open water swimming event - Swim Serpentine 2023 on Saturday 16th September. Every pound you raise will help us lift more Londoners out of homelessness, for good.
Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE)

The people we work with often have complex psychological and emotional needs. To address this, we use an approach known as PIE.
How we transform lives

Each day our work restores hope to homeless and vulnerable people with nowhere else to turn.
Supported accommodation

Our hostels and supported housing are a lifeline for homeless people who are at a point in their lives where they would struggle to live independently.
Volunteer vacancies

Could you volunteer your time, skills and talents to help homeless and vulnerable people to transform their lives?
Our history

Single Homeless Project was founded by a group of homeless people in the mid-1970s. Today, 40 years on, we still try to look at the world through our clients’ eyes.
A homelessness crisis

Homelessness has no place in 21st century London – yet we are in the grip of a homeless crisis.

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