Housing Justice is a national charity based in London. With over 60 years’ experience it is one of the oldest housing and homelessness charity in the UK. Today it is active in over 35 communities across the UK funding housing advice centres, community regeneration projects and supporting church-based homelessness projects.
It is also responsible for organising Homelessness Sunday, held in January each year. As well as providing practical help to homeless people, predominantly those classified as ‘statutory homeless’ – i.e. accepted as homeless under the terms of the homelessness legislation – Housing Justice also campaigns against homelessness, lobbying politicians as appropriate.
We were asked to develop and build an online grant application platform for Housing Justice. Currently this supports their Equipping Shelters programme, and will be expanded to cover further programmes in the future. Applications for funding for up to £20,000 can be made online, for monthly rounds of funding grants.
As well as basic information such as contact details, our system also caters for budget tables, file uploads for financial information, signatures (compatible with both mouse and finger/touch), narrative passages, and more. Applications are delivered directly to Housing Justice, and the details are automatically merged into designed summary documents for review meetings.
The fantastic design of the online system and the summary documents is by our partners at Metric.