IMPORTANT: LDHAS is now in a new office!

If you are in need of support, wish to contact us, or visit our new offices, LDHAS is now located at 2 Aalborg Place, Lancaster, LA1 1BJ. As usual, we are open to clients from 9:30am to 1:00pm Mon-Fri.

We are next to the Lancaster Magistrates' Court, behind the Town Hall.
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Welcome to the Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service 

The project was set up in 1987 to provide a service for local people in housing poverty. The Homeless Action Service was built in 1992 with a considerable amount of incredible support from local people. We became a registered charity in 2002.

For many years, LDHAS was based in a portacabin in Edward Street but the age of the cabin, coupled with the city's plans to redevelop the area, meant we had to relocate. In 2024, LDHAS purchased a new office and paid for a construction firm to rebuild the interior to be fit for purpose. Our new building at 2 Aalborg Place LA1 1BJ now has everything we need: a shower and laundry facilities; commercial kitchen; offices for one-to-one casework; and a medical room.

However, this relocation was costly and LDHAS now needs donations to keep the centre running. Anything you can spare will go a long way towards helping our city's most vulnerable people. Click here to donate.

Our clients are ordinary people whose circumstances have altered their way of life, people who have been in care, suffered a relationship breakdown, have addictions, come out of the services, or come out of prison.

Refuge from the Ravens: Wordsworth re-written by homeless Britain was an exhibition some of our clients helped write in 2021/22. Click here for more info.

Our Mission Statement 

The Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service seeks to provide and improve services for those who are homeless or have housing related needs by the following means:

Aims and Objectives

• Identifying and responding to homelessness and housing related needs.
• Working directly or in partnership with other agencies to promote accessible, responsive and suitable services.
• Offering day centre facilities that offer care and support for homeless people and those with housing related needs.
• Offering advice, information and advocacy service on housing and related issues.
• Maintain accurate and up to date awareness of the needs of those who are homeless or have housing related needs through monitoring, maintaining and generating data for both the project and a wider audience.
• Seeking to inform and guide policy locally and nationally that affects homeless people and those with housing related needs.
• Maximising available resources through seeking out alternative funding, encouraging participation of project users, valuing and developing staff and volunteers and encouraging active support from all sectors of the community.
• Promoting equality of opportunity for all throughout all aspects of the service.

 

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For any information on our policies or data protection, please email manager@ldhas.org.uk or give us a call.
Registration reference: Z835301X

We couldn't do it without donations from the public and charitable trusts! If you would like to support our work or help with fundraising, please don't hesitate to get in touch!