40 delegates: investors,

commissioners, and providers from

across the county and country

gathered

Simon Sherbersky (TCDT) kicked the session off, introducing Caz Johal

from The Foyer

Nicola Forsdyke (Senior Homelessness Advisor, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) outlining the

government’s position and aspirations in relation to housing and homelessness and their position on social investment.

William Lilley,

Partnerships Director

of South West

Academic Health

Science Network, one

of the partners in the

SIMPL project, tells

his story of securing

social investment to

support homeless

people in

Birmingham

Jari Moate, Investment Manager at Resonance Ltd, facilitated with

Katie Sherjan, CEO HollywellHousing, a workshop on smaller investments in Housing solutions

Andrew Wade from BrixhamYouth Enquiry Service, taking you on a journey of a small charity securing investment from Big Issue Invest and bringing empty properties back into use and providing homes for young people in Brixham.

Please learn more about Brixham Youth Enquiry Service at

www.bxyes.org. Visit them, or if you are interested in a possible

collaboration get in touch with Andrew directly.

Look at photos of their work converting two derelict commercial

premises into 6 affordable flats here and here.

For 2 videos demonstrating the impact of their work, click here.

An impressive “Throw The Dice” performance by Unleashed Theatre Company Torbay. Check out their FB page or go and see one of their performances!

At lunch the delegates were joined by the Unleashed performers.

Then two interactive seminars followed:

• Jaishree Mistry, Investment Manager from Homeless Link, on ‘Building resilience by diversifying income streams’

• Toyin Miller, Investment Manager from SASC, on their experiences/lessons learned of making investments from their Property Fund

Many thanks for attending the Housing & Homelessness event in Torquay! We hope you look back at a fruitful gathering.

May we see you again at one of our activities over the next month. The next regional event will be in Plymouth on 2nd May.

See for our website, www.simplproject.org.uk, more resources & (local) SIMPL events.

Best wishes from the SIMPL Project team,

Imogen Potter, Aydin Boyacigiller, Robin Causley, Simon Sherbersky, Simon Bowkett and Daphne van Run