Depaul Report on Hackney Borough Support Centre Establishment

Depaul Report on Hackney Borough Support Centre Establishment1
DEPAUL REPORT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF HOMELESS SUPPORT CENTER IN
HACKNEY BOROUGH
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Introduction
PEST is a way of understanding how external forces can impact your business. It should be
included in every business plan in addition to SWOT analysis, a strategy that is adopted as part
of risk management, strategic planning, and design of a business idea (Loveland 2017, p. 64).
The political environment is an analysis of the impact of politics to business world. The
economic factor examines outside economic issues that can play a role in a company's success.
With the social factor, a business can analyze the socioeconomic environment of the given
industry's market to understand how consumer needs are shaped and what brings them to the
market for a purchase and the relative ways of dealing with customers. Technology plays a
bigger role in business and in setting up any company or industry. With the introduction of new
products, new technologies and services, a certain marketplace can have a tough time adjusting
so it's important to assess the technology from all dimensions.
Background Information of the Organization
Depaul charity is a group that began in 1989 in response to the alarming growth of the number of
homeless people on the streets of London. The passage day centre in Victoria, under the
directorate of Sister Barbara Smith, and her management team and trustees brought their
proposal to Cardinal Basil Hume who agreed to be Patron of the new charity Depaul Trust and
support its inception (Collinson and Ward 2010. P. 23). The founder members all had their roots
in the life and work of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660). The organization empowers young
people aged between 16 and 25 years who are experiencing homelessness. It provides emergency
accommodation, supported housing and other services to help people rebuild and restructuretheir

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lives. Its mission is to eradicate homelessness and change the lives of the affected by ensuring
each and every person has a place to call home and stake in their community.
The organization has expanded to national and international levels since 1992 when Mark
McGreevy took over as Director. It quickly grew to a national charity in the United Kingdom
and from 2002 it expanded internationally starting its branches in Ireland, USA, Slovakia,
Ukraine, Kharkiv and France. Its aim after this international status then was upgraded to dealing
with homelessness at the worldwide level. The group owes its inspiration and values to Vincent
de Depaul, a reformer of the 17thcentury in France who reached out to the poor and the
disenfranchised, valuing each and every person. He attracted a large group of volunteers and
supporters, whom he inspired with his love for the poor, building bridges between the rich
people and those living in poverty (Soar, Papaioannou, and Dawkins 2016, p. 93). He devoted
his entire life to helping the poor, sick and needy and he was canonized in 1737 and given a very
famous title as “the Saint of Charity”. His values have been essential to the foundation and work
of the organization where it helps the poorest of the poor by placing actions ahead of words.
PEST Analysis
Political
- Homelessness was greatly captured in
the political arena in the 2017 election
in the Hackney borough where each
party manifesto featured it in.
- Politics brought to attention a
Social
- Lack of affordable housing has raised
the number of those sleeping in the
streets to 1,248 in a three months
survey in the hackney borough alone.
- Bureau of investigative journalism has

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remarkably high rise of homeless
individuals which increased by roughly
47% in Hackney and 169% in the
whole of London over the past 5 years.
- Private rented sector has contributed to
the rise and many political parties are
promising to eradicate the problem
- The ability of younger adults to form
separate households continues to fall
alarmingly in the borough.
reported that 83 people died on the
street and temporary housing in the past
year 2017
- 63% of the people who die on the street
of Hackney are men 30% are women
and no gender was recorded for the
remaining 7%.
- 91%% of charity organizations in the
borough have blamed the government
of austerity, very expensive private
rents and lack of social housing.
Economic
- Ministry of housing and homelessness
has allocated 700 million Euros to
solving the housing problem by 2027
- Great London authority provides to the
Hackney boroughs 23.3 million euros
through the rough sleeping initiative to
eradicate homelessness
- The guardian model is planning for the
years ahead by asking people to donate
so as to eradicate homelessness.
Technological
- Creation of mobile applications where
alerts can be raised over any person
noticed sleeping rough.
- Donation of smartphones by some well-
wishers to ensure those in the street can
communicate with people who can help
- Free Wi-Fi is offered in many places
around Hackney. This has seen many
homeless individuals get help from
potential persons who are connected to