Hope is more important than ever.

Over 30,000 people are currently homeless in Scotland and demand for our services is higher than ever. We are in a housing emergency and the cost of living crisis is pushing more people into poverty and having no where to call home. Our 'Hope' appeal is a call to action.

Our Street Teams, Hubs, Helplines, Supported Accommodation, Outreach Support and SCS Homes are supporting hundreds of people every single week.

At Simon Community Scotland, we see the power of hope every day. We need your help to keep the lights on, the doors open, and the support flowing.

This winter, our Hope appeal aims to raise £200,000 to provide life-changing support for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Your donation, no matter how small, helps us provide everything from a friendly hello and a hot meal to sustained, long-term support and a path to a better future.

Our ‘Hope’ appeal will raise much needed funds to continue and expand services, ensuring that we can provide more hope and more opportunity.

£10 - Emergency Essentials: Provides clean socks, toiletries, and a hot, nourishing meal for someone on the street tonight.

£25 - A Safe Welcome: Funds an emergency welcome pack (warm pyjamas, clean underwear, snacks) for someone arriving in crisis accommodation.

£50 - Lifeline Appointments: Covers the cost of supporting one person to attend vital health, housing, or welfare appointments for a week.

£75 - A Safe Night: Provides hot food, dry, warm clothing, and a safe night's accommodation for someone who desperately needs off the streets.

£100 - Community Connection: Funds food and resources for one session of a specialised support group.

£500 - Peer Support Group: Funds the full running costs of a peer support group for 6-weeks, connecting people with shared experiences to rebuild confidence.

£1,000 - Move-In Pack: Provides a 'moving in pack' to turn an empty flat into a safe home, including essential furniture like a small fridge, bedding, or a sofa.

Hope, for people we support, often starts with a conversation, a human connection. This could be on the streets, on our helplines or in our hubs. Once that connection is established, it’s from there that trust and belief build. It is only through those trusting connections with us and through us to many other services that people can find a future of safety and support, of opportunity and meaning and of structure and change for the better.

As a charity, across our team, our own hope comes from hearing the very real experiences of people we are supporting - simple things that most of us might take for granted. Feeling seen, heard and valued as a person and not a collection of needs and problems.

Our Glasgow team took people to Ben Lomond for a day out walking and climbing. It was the first time many had been outwith the city centre and into country air for years, some for the first time. Some talked of ‘escapism’ and ‘freedom’. One said it gave them ‘hope’. Our Access Hub has helped 6 people graduate from City of Glasgow College this year - that is truly incredible. An inspiring message of hope.

Our Edinburgh team are helping over 300 people maintain tenancies every single day and help people move into long term homes of their own every week. We are also set to announce our new home for Streetreads - offering hope and a safe place that has been missing from the city since we were forced to close our original home in January.

We also work across North Lanarkshire and Perth & Kinross, where we support several hundred of people a year to keep or find their settled home.

There are so many incredible stories of people overcoming the very worst of circumstances, recovering from severe mental health problems, addictions and trauma, having found their own little bit of hope and then building from there. We sometimes have to hold that hope for them and with them, whilst their belief that better is possible grows.

Please share our hope and be part of giving someone else hope for the future. We can only deliver hope with the care and action of every single person that takes the time to support our work and our cause. We cannot do this without you.

Please, help us share the hope this winter. Donate today.