East Sussex HomeWorks

Home Works Service - Short Term Support for Long Term Independence

Southdown deliver the East Sussex generic floating support service "HomeWorks" across all of East Sussex.  The goals of the service are to help people achieve the Communities and Local Government department’s desired outcomes which are:

• Achieve economic wellbeing
• Enjoy life and achieve ambitions
• Make a positive contribution to their community 
• Better manage their physical health and emotional wellbeing 
• Stay safe 

Who is the service for?

Home Works is for you if:

• you live in East Sussex, in any type of housing
• you are aged between 16 and 64
• you are a single person, a couple or family
• you are at risk of losing your home, are already homeless, or living in unsuitable accommodation
• you need help and support around housing
• you will benefit from short-term support

Home Works helps you by:

• Supporting you to work out what you need to do to overcome your housing issues and what type of help you need
• Giving guidance and coaching you on how to manage tasks related to keeping your home
• Helping you to understand your tenancy or mortgage responsibilities
• Supporting you to settle in to your new home and set up your gas, electric and water supply
• Referring you to independent legal and advocacy services if you need this
• Connecting you with other services and opportunities in the community that can help you manage in other areas of your life
• Working closely with other agencies giving you advice and support to make sure our support fits well with this
• Only sharing information about you with relevant agencies and with your permission. 

Home Works information leaflets and the Team

We subscribe to Language Line, which gives us access to interpreters covering 200 languages via the telephone. We can provide information in a variety of formats.

To download a copy of our referral form please click here

To read a report highlighting our achievements between July 2009 and June 2011 please click here

To read an article published in the Eastbourne and District Herald (30 July 2009) about the service, please click here.

Please click here to read the February 2012 Home Works East Stakeholders Bulletin 3.

Contact us:

East Sussex Home Works - West Area         
(Eastbourne/Lewes/Wealden)
Phone 01273 898700 / Fax 01273 898701 / Text 07773 377754 / Email referrals@homeworkswest.org.uk

East Sussex Home Works - East Area
(Hastings and Rother)
Phone 01424 858341 / Fax 01424 858342 / Text 07540721244 / Email referrals@homeworkseast.org.uk