President's Appeal 2010-2011
Over many years the CIH Presidential Appeal has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities and good causes across the world. Paddy Gray, the 2010/11 CIH President, has chosen HACT - The housing action charity as the focus of his Presidential Appeal.
About HACT
HACT helps housing providers to improve the wellbeing and living conditions of people in poor and marginalised communities.
Those on the margins of society – the old, the poor, the newly arrived – continue to struggle for adequate housing in viable neighbourhoods. Their choices are limited. The services provided for them are often unfocused. And their gifts and skills are seldom harnessed to transform their lives and their communities.
We believe housing should be part of the answer. Over the past 50 years, we’ve helped housing providers to develop new, radical models of housing provision. We continue to do this by:
- injecting know-how and resources to community initiatives
- supporting local people to tackle local social issues
- sharing experience with the social housing community
- tackling inequality by helping local people and groups take charge of solutions
Our projects deliver lasting change, by harnessing the energy and enthusiasm of local people, housing providers and other organisations. We provide the expertise and the resources to make change a reality.
HACT - The housing action charity
Message from the President
I am delighted to announce that I am supporting HACT, the housing action charity. It is a big year for them as they are celebrating their 50th anniversary.
As you might have heard, HACT has launched a competition for the sector to support ideas that help vulnerable and marginalised people. My presidential appeal will go to support the pioneering work HACT has done in building bridges in local communities. This is one of the three themes of the competition.
In HACT’s project ‘Communities R Us’ they piloted work at street level to bring people together, working jointly on shared initiatives. The learning from that project can be useful to lots of people in their own communities, which is compiled in their report.
HACT also builds bridges and confidence between generations which is the focus of their ‘age2age’ project. The building bridges theme is an area that is dear to my heart, especially given the division in communities that I personally have experienced in Northern Ireland.
I look forward to work with HACT to share some of their learning across the UK in bringing people together; for instance I am currently talking to ‘Children in Crossfire’. I hope to engage with you further during this year to raise money for HACT.
To donate to this year's appeal please use the Just Giving Site
Previous appeals supported by CIH:
- 2009/2010 - Howard Farrand: Homeless International
- 2008/2009 - Steve Benson FCIH: Crisis Changing Lives
- 2007/2008 - Paul Diggory FCIH: Homeless International in Zambia
- 2006/2007 - Janet Hale FCIH: Homelessness and the Big Life Group
- 2005/2006 - Barrington Billings: CrisisShield - Grenada Appeal (PDF: 1.4 MB)
Other recent CIH Supported Appeals:
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