The Depaul Group was founded in 1989 in response to the growing number of young people sleeping on the streets of London. Since then, we have grown from running a small night shelter to being a leading provider of homelessness services globally. Depaul charities include: United Kingdom, Ireland, Slovakia, Ukraine, United States of America, France and Croatia.
23500
Individuals supported each year
760000
Meals provided
630000
Beds available to children and adults
636
Volunteers
The Depaul Group exists because we believe everyone deserves the dignity and security of a place to call home. We are locally governed and locally run and committed to ending homelessness and improving the lives of the people affected by it.
Depaul International oversees the Group, ensuring the highest standards of service provision, governance, finance and helping develop capacity in areas including fundraising, communications and safeguarding.
We establish new members to the Group in countries where we can make a difference – where there is a lack of services and where people and communities who are marginalised need our help.
Our local to global structure makes us ideally placed to join up evidence and innovation, identify emerging trends, analyse best practice – including what has worked to end homelessness – and share this knowledge internationally.
We are agile to emerging global issues, can mobilise the necessary expertise to deliver effective services and, together with our strategic partners the Institute of Global Homelessness and Famvin Homeless Alliance, we speak out and act on global homelessness.
We remain committed to developing solutions that work, driving the conversation on homelessness to influence policy and public opinion, advocating for system change, and achieving a world where homelessness is unthinkable.
You can read and download the Depaul Group strategy
