A brief description of the organisation Your Own Place CIC is a multi-award-winning social enterprise founded in 2013. Our Mission is to prevent homelessness through innovation, collaboration, and the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive. Our Vision is that everyone has a safe and sustainable home. Lived experience remains at the heart of everything we do. The work it does During 2025-26, Your Own Place delivered homelessness prevention activity through a range of pre-tenancy and in-tenancy programmes, community-based support, tenant engagement projects and training and development opportunities. Our work combines group workshops, one-to-one support and participatory approaches that help people build skills, confidence, knowledge and resilience needed to sustain a home and thrive. We work alongside local authorities, housing associations, supported accommodation providers, schools, colleges, charities and community organisations across the UK. We supported 375 people during the year through 89 group workshops and 629 one-to-one sessions, with participants achieving 356 AQA certificates. We worked with people across 10 counties and expanded our reach through online delivery, enabling more people to access support regardless of location or personal circumstances. Our work included: Supporting care-experienced young people through “A Job and A Home” programme to develop confidence, resilience, employability skills and knowledge about housing and independent living. Delivering place-based homelessness prevention by embedding facilitators within supported housing settings. Working alongside communities through foodbank, community venues and other trusted spaces to provide early intervention and cost-of-living support. Facilitating tenant engagement and lived experience projects, ensuring people affected by housing insecurity can influence services and solutions. Sharing restorative adn asset-based approaches with community organisations and volunteers to help build stronger, more resilient communities. How it benefits the community and creates impact Everything we do is designed to help people recognise their strengths, build confidence and exercise greater control over decisions that affect their lives. Our work supports people before housing challenges escalate into homelessness and enables communities and organisations to work more effectively alongside the people they support. Across all projects during 2025-26: 86% of people reported increased confidence to keep their home 85% reported increased understanding of housing options 89% reported increased understanding of how debt works 87% reported increased confidence in getting help 78% reported increased knowledge fo how to manage bills 74% reported increased knowledge of how to manage money 66% reported increased confidence in finding solutions to problems Specific projects delivered particularly strong outcomes. On the “A Job and A Home” programme, 100% of young people reported increased confidence and resilience, while 87% reported improved employability skills. Within our Colchester place-based prevention work, 90% reported increased confidence in keeping their home and 93% reported increased confidence in seeking help. We also supported volunteers to adopt restorative and asset-based approaches, with 100% reporting increased confidence in supporting people to identify their own solutions. We are proud that our income remains strong across both traded and funded sources, enabling us to deepen partnerships, increase sustainability and extend our reach and impact. Referrer feedback remains exceptionally positive, with 100% of referrers reporting that Your Own Place made a difference to the people they referred.

Your Own Place has a range of stakeholders, who through a variety of audience-appropriate mechanisms are regularly consulted and involved. Our staff team – During 2025-26 or staff team continued to play a central role in shaping and delivering high-quality services. Through regular reflection sessions, project reviews, planning workshops and impact discussions, staff contributed to organisational learning and continuous improvement. Feedback gathered from participants, partners and communities is routinely shared and used to improve delivery and inform future development. Our customers and delivery partners- Customers, commissioners and delivery partners are consulted through project reviews, impact reporting, partnership meetings and ongoing conversations. Feedback received during 2025-26 helped shape the continued development of our online offer, place-based prevention work, care-experienced young people’s programmes, tenant engagement activity and community-based support. Evidence gathered from these partnerships also informed our plans to redefine our service offers and further develop our approaches to training. The Board of Non-Executive Directors – The Board provides governance, accountability and strategic oversight through quarterly meetings, risk management, financial scrutiny and review of organisational performance. During 2025-26 the Board supported the continued development and sustainability of the organisation while maintaining a focus on impact, quality and homeless prevention. People with lived and living experience – During 2025-26 we continued to embed lived experience within our work through listening exercises, tenant engagement projects and co-produced initiatives. We worked with participants to shape services, identify barriers and develop solutions. This learning is informing the development of the Your Own Place Community Voices Network, which will create further opportunities for people and communities to influence our work and ensure it remains relevant, effective and connected to local needs. Insights gathered from stakeholders during 2025-26 continue to inform the development of Your Own Place, including the refinement of our service offers, the development of the Community Voices Network and the introduction of new impact management approaches.

Director remuneration is disclosed in the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026. Salary paid to Zoe Webb, Director, during the period was £48,925. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director's loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

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