Cambridge Street Aid

Cambridge Street Aid offers individual grants to help people with a background of living on the city's streets. The grants provide practical support to help people get off, and stay off, the streets. Applications can only be made by referring organisations on behalf of individuals who are or have been street homeless. There are three main criteria that people must meet in order to be eligible: the person must be, or have been, sleeping on the streets or living a street-based lifestyle; the grant must be to pay for something that would help the person get off, or stay off, the streets; and the person must be a resident of, or have links to, Cambridge City. Grants of up to £250 are available for people in emergency or temporary accommodation, while grants of up to £750 can be requested for people who have an offer of stable accommodation. The fund is not for crisis support but aims to enable change which has a longer term impact on the beneficiary's life.