Amy Varle (CF 2016) from Bury, Greater Manchester is a housing consultant and homelessness campaigner. She has been reaching out to colleagues and partner organisations across her sector to help identify and house every homeless person across Manchester during the pandemic.

On a national scale, she is working to bring together practitioners, charities and services across the UK to share knowledge and resources and create a framework for best practice in homelessness response. She will use her grant to develop this work and create a technological hub of expertise, skills and resources to provide up-to-date support and guidance to services across the UK as well as for homeless people themselves. Her aim is to provide this centralised and digitised hub so that services can co-ordinate and collaborate more easily and no homeless people are neglected.

Amy's Fellowship to the USA explored pioneering strategies for 21st-century homeless prevention and response. It was supported by the National Housing Federation.