The Connection at St Martin’s works with people who are rough sleeping to move away from, and stay off, the streets of London. We’re alongside people as they recover from life on the streets and move towards a meaningful, fulfilling future. With practical support, we help lift the pressures that push people into rough sleeping. You can learn how we help those facing homelessness so they’re never alone below.

We work with people, not for them. There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to tackling homelessness – everyone is unique. Our job is to help people with homelessness and rough sleeping, changing their lives in the way that they want to, at their own pace.

Everybody can leave homelessness behind, but recovery from homelessness is often a very long process, and can be full of stops and starts. We build trusting relationships and offer services that build confidence and self-belief to support people every step of the way.

At The Connection we:

At The Connection at St.Martin’s, we work intensively with these people in the long-term – supporting them to recognise their own strengths, recover from crisis and move away from the streets for good.

This is how we help those experiencing homelessness before, during and after their time (if any) sleeping rough.

Our frontline services are delivered in and around our resource centre at Adelaide Street and at St Martin’s House, our supported housing project in South London. We have also run two temporary accommodation projects across Westminster this year. Together with Solace Women’s Aid, we have set up a project, the Women’s Development Unit, looking the issue of women and homelessness and with partners in Westminster on improving how services and systems work together.