During 2024 to 2025, the UK spent over £2.8 billion directly on homeless accommodation. Greater Change offers a simple, solution: flexible cash payments that remove key barriers keeping people stuck in homelessness and poverty.
The idea is straightforward: people experiencing homelessness know best what they need. Instead of fitting people into fixed programmes, Greater Change provides flexible cash grants that are shaped by each individual. Clients have autonomy to request a grant for anything that will help them move into stable housing and rebuild their lives, whether that is securing a home, improving their health and wellbeing, or preparing for work.
Greater Change works closely with local councils and homelessness charities. Support workers help people apply for Greater Change funding through a clear and respectful process.
Once approved, the grant is sent quickly with 90% of requests processed within a week. By integrating support into existing systems, it is cost-effective and rapidly expandable.
The client-led, dignified approach has supported over 1,300 people, with 85% being housed, and close to 50% finding employment. The Greater Change model is currently being evaluated with results of a Randomised Control Trial funded by the UK’s Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government expected in the autumn of 2026.
By challenging traditional service models, it is not only kinder but shows that trusting people can be a powerful way to create lasting change.
They are now planning to support an additional 2,500 people in the next two years and hope to reach up to 100,000 beneficiaries by 2033.
