About Pathways

Our Vision

Our vision is that everyone in our community has a place that they can call home.

Our Mission

Our mission is to eradicate rough sleeping in our community, and to support those without a permanent home to obtain and maintain one.

Our Aims and Objectives

Pathways is a centre that is a place of acceptance, empowerment and change where clients will be given the help, skills and the confidence to resolve their issues of homelessness.
We aim to provide a safe, welcoming and non-judgemental environment that will strive to provide both immediate short term responses to basic needs and long term solutions to more deep rooted problems.
On a basic level we will continue to be a place of social contact and shelter, with services such as food provision, emergency clothing and bedding if required. Beyond this we plan to be a place where support staff trained with specialist knowledge and our resident trained nurse can deliver an effective service of constructive and beneficial interventions at the right time and at the client’s pace. Through these interventions we hope to provide a catalyst for change and break the cycle of homelessness.
Pathways recognises that maintaining street lifestyles is not appropriate, that better alternatives exist, and that these are attainable for our clients with the right support and guidance. We want to encourage aspirations and hopes to be identified by clients themselves and to give them the structures, the information, and the choices to achieve them.
Pathways aims to be a centre where we listen to our clients and where they will be central to the planning and provision of services with an increasing focus on client participation in the decisions that affect their lives. We want to emphasise and encourage the development of our client’s skills and abilities, to focus on what they can achieve, and to promote a culture where our clients can ultimately learn from each other and move on.
And as an organisation we recognise that we must commit to a process of continual planning and adaptation of our service to meet our clients’ needs.

Our Values

We never give up on people

Even when people have lost hope, we provide a safe space and act as a constant mechanism of support providing encouragement, patience, and stability to empower people believe in themselves and work towards what they want to achieve, at a pace that suits them.  

We are approachable   

Becoming homeless can be terrifying and have a huge impact on confidence. We work in a friendly empathic and non-judgmental way to make it as easy as possible to get support. We really listen to get an understanding of how people are, what they want to achieve and how we can support them with this.  

We empower people      

We support people to build self-esteem to have the confidence in achieving their goals and making decisions through sharing knowledge, motivational work and encouraging resilience through learning.  

We respect people  

We work in a respectful way with everyone we come into contact with from the people we support to partnership agencies, colleagues, and the wider network we meet. We support people in a non-judgmental manner and always treat people as individuals. We are open and honest and work in a transparent way.

We work collaboratively  

We build strong partnerships to ensure people get the best possible to support to meet their needs. These strong partnerships enable us to advocate for the people we work.

We continuously work to improve our service

We are constantly striving to improve our knowledge so that we can continually develop our charity and enable people improve their situation, using data, research and lived experience.

Further links

Meet the Team

The History of Pathways

About Pathways

Our Vision

Our Mission

Our Aims and Objectives

Our Values

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