How Platfform’s Power Up project took a collaborative, young people-led approach to creating a place away from online toxicity, where fears and hopes could be shared.

Amid the headlines and politics, what’s the truth behind mental health and unemployment?

Oliver Townsend has been part of campaigns to protect housing support funding for almost a decade. Now, as many in the sector are warning things are harder than they've ever seen, he reflects on whether we can hold onto hope.

“I feel that I cannot win. I feel I have no agency. My trauma is belittled. Mental health professionals have labelled me as manipulative, demonstrative, childlike, badly behaved, more difficult than others,  and less deserving of care.” …

You may have seen us and other charities and organisations campaigning around the Housing Support Grant. If the Welsh Government has to reduce this funding in the December budget, the consequences for homelessness services…

The announcement of upcoming budget cuts in Wales is a painful situation with no single solution. What is clear is more cuts will deepen further the costs to our mental and physical health here in Wales. The affect will have lasting effects for generations.

At Platfform, we believe hope is a way of being, a process. It is why we are excited that we have received funding from the Moondance Foundation for two years of a ground-breaking project in the Caerphilly area.

Positive relationships have been talked about for a long time in housing and support. It’s not a new idea. However, with each year we see more often that our systems get in the way of building positive relationships.

'The energy price cap, while welcome, won’t address the fears of those dreading winter in a cold house. It won’t stop their savings being eaten away. And it won’t undo the damage done to our collective health’ - our Head of Policy explains the need for deeper change.