Our work on the ground increases
how museum of homelessness worked with the community in 2025/26
Museum of Homelessness is a small site with a big heart in a vibrant park in London’s ‘poverty corridor’ (Trust for London, 2026). We have a small, highly skilled team who work with our community throughout the week to support people to navigate whatever life throws at them.
When we say our community we mean people experiencing homelessness, housing instability, poverty and addiction. Many of our team have lived experience of these issues. This means we can build trust and support people deeply. Almost all our team are certified trauma coaches and we are all trained in MoH’s signature Trauma, Community and Compassion approach. This is essential as we regularly work with people experiencing suicidal ideation, mental health crisis, complex physical and chronic illness and long term addiction.
Although we are a museum site and not a day centre, we have a vision of strengthened communities who have the resources they need to find creative solutions to homelessness. This means meeting people’s basic needs as well as running creative activity. On our site we do all of that to create a site of healing and justice. You can support this work here.
our work in numbers
In financial year 2025/2026:
We provided 7895 hours of creative employment for people with experience of homelessness
We provided 6270 hours of volunteering time for 60 volunteers
There were 31 health and wellbeing sessions held at the museum including accupressure, sexual health drop ins, haircuts4homeless sessions and massage. We are grateful to our partners and volunteers who provide this.
We provided 4012 nutritious meals during the year.
60 gardening sessions took place and 51 creative sessions, with 1365 attendances in total.
16 people took part in an 8 week curatorial development programme using our methodology This Stuff Matters. The result was the exhibition Criminal: An Untold History of Homelessness, Resistance & Survival
We supervised 780 visits to our emergency supplies cupboard for essentials with 65 cost of living support packages put in place for people experiencing homelessness
We provided 102 sessions of person centred advocacy and in depth support with navigating the housing, welfare, health and criminal justice systems. We have supported 21 individuals in this way over the year. This encompasses hosting team around me meetings in the museum, advocating for secure housing placements, intervening in police or court processes, accompanying people to appointments, grief and bereavement support and advocacy with services.
We provided 111 nights of emergency accommodation in our winter shelter or through hotel rooms for 7 people.
Our emergency refugee housing fund run in partnership with Haringey Welcome and Haringey Council housed 7 households in permanent accommodation when exiting the immigration system.
Massive thanks to MoH crew, partners and funders who make all of this possible.
You can support this work here.
