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Cleaning windowsThroughout 2009, QSA worked to build a 'story bank': a resource of people's experiences of the various issues which bring them to our projects. Staff and volunteers spoke to people in a confidential space, asking them questions about homelessness, money management, employment, and community. We wanted to listen to the people with whom we work, in order to improve the work that we do and respond to the real needs that people have.

You can read some of these stories relating to Knees Up, Made of Money, Homestore and Homelink on their pages. The beautiful images which accompany these stories were taken by a volunteer in the area surrounding our Bethnal Green office.

The Story Bank has been a large piece of research for QSA and we'd like to thank all the volunteers who gave so much time and support to us.




QSA in top twenty 'recommended charities'

New Philanthropy Capital is an organisation which independently assess the impact of UK charities in order to make recommendations to funders.  In 2008, their team of researchers spent around 80 hours assessing QSA and described us as "an innovative charity which answers local need".

Since then, they have decided to streamline their recommendation process, picking one extremely effective charity to demonstrate each of their categories.  QSA is delighted to have been picked as the best example of "a creative, flexible approach by a small charity."  You can read the full report and recommendations here.



New staff for the new year

There's been a lot of change in QSA's teams recently.  Joanna, our fundraising and communications officer, has become tenancy creation and support officer at Homelink.  She will be replaced by Rosie, who brings lots of fundraising experience to the role.

Natalie, who was tenancy sustainment officer part-time and Knees Up development worker part-time has become manager of Knees Up. She is joined by Dinar, who was previously development worker at Street Cred and has over 10 years experience of working in our local community.

Finally, our newest project will start in January and we are delighted to welcome Shaun as manager of Down to Earth.  Down to Earth is an innovative idea supporting people through the difficulties of planning a funeral.  You can read more about this here.


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