Teenage girls get new start
Vulnerable teenage girls in Tamworth are to be helped by a project largely funded by Quakers
Vulnerable teenage girls are to be helped by a largely Quaker-funded project that has just been opened in Tamworth. Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) trustee Jeffery Smith presided at the official opening last week of Home-Start Tamworth.
The newly renovated accommodation for vulnerable teenage girls was largely funded by QHT. The Trust provided £12,000 of the £20,000 needed to install new fire alarm systems, fire doors, a laundry room and an additional shower room.
‘Home-Start Tamworth is providing essential support to a very vulnerable group of young people, and enabling is the essence of what QHT is all about,’ said Jeffery Smith.
‘We want our help to make that vital difference to individual lives, not just here in Tamworth but across the country, by continuing to fund social housing.’
Dawn Candy, Home-Start Tamworth’s senior coordinator, explained that the new accommo-dation will provide a safe home for teenage girls who have become homeless after becoming mothers.
Tamworth, in Staffordshire, is experiencing a shortage of accommodation for younger and more vulnerable first-time parents. Home-Start hopes to assist residents with training in running a home, bringing up children and understanding the financial implications of both.
Since 2011 QHT has made fifty-nine loans or grants to fifty housing projects ranging from community groups providing homes, and sometimes training skills, to projects that are turning unused church buildings and land into homes.
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