PEST Analysis for Opening a New Center of St. Mungo’s in London Borough

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St. Mungo’s is a charity foundation that operates in England and they mainly helps the
homeless people, people who have problems in sleeping in the streets of London. This
organization is providing home to a huge number of homeless people in England and they are
also responsible for providing support and bed for sleeping in the south and south west of
England. The outreach team of St. Mungo’s meet the people who are sleeping rough at night and
they provide support to that people in moving away from the street. The team work along the
west and south west part of the country with the help of local councils and other local agencies
who are engaged in same type of work as well. They have their center in various part of the
country (St Mungo's 2018). However, they are aiming to open a new center in the London
borough. In England there are various organization who are contributing to the wellness of the
homeless people and rough sleeps. As each of the homeless people have different needs, so each
of the charity foundation is responsible for different type of needs. Those charities are
responsible giving access to temporary or emergency accommodation, training or employment,
giving legal and housing advice. In addition to this, some organization also help in avoiding
alcohol and drug dependency. St.Mungo’s is planning to open a new center in London borough
so that they can expand their service and can help more homeless people in the London borough
In this report, the PEST analysis of opening a new center of St. Mungo’s in London Borough is
discussed. In addition to this a few possible recommendation for opening St. Mungo’s new
center is also highlighted in the later part of this assignment.
PEST analysis is a measurement tool that is utilized to examine the market for a
particular product or a particular business at a very specific time period as well. The term pest
implies the four factors and that are P stands for the Political factors, E stands for the economic
factors, S stands for the social factors and T stands for the technological factors. Under the

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political environment, government rule, tax policies, environment laws are included. In case of
economic factors, the interest rates, economic growth is included. The social factors include the
consumer of that particular services, demographic studies, population growth. In case of
technological factors, the factors like advancement of technology, intervention of new
technology are included under the technological factors (The Economic Times 2018).
St. Mungo’s is a charitable organization which is engaged in providing support to the
homeless people of England. In 1969, a few volunteers started a campaign to help the people of
London who are sleeping roughly in the street. The name St. Mungo’s was given to that group of
volunteers by Harry Stone as he thought this name of a Christian saint would prevent the
harassment of that group. St. Mungo’s now have a large hostel that have the accommodation
capacity of 650 beds and along with this almost 24 staffs are working in that large hostel. St.
Mungo’s also provides hostels and to the semi-independent people. The charity foundation has
its own properties and they also give rent their buildings to other providers as well. In addition
to this, the employee of that organization also provide various services like employment and
skill training to the homeless people or to the people who are vulnerable to become homeless,
provide service to enhance the health condition of people (St Mungo's 2018).
Political Factors
 Increase in numbers of applications
from homeless people.
 The local authority only provide a
temporary accommodation to the
applicant people.
 Several political boundaries in
Economic factors
 The city is providing funds to provide
outreach of various organization for
arranging accommodation for the rough
sleepers.
 Government has introduced
personalized budget for various

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providing temporary accommodation.
 The city councils also supports the
people who are rough sleepers.
 Development of new model for the
rough sleepers (Hackney.gov.uk, 2014).
homelessness project implementation.
 Various new project for giving shelter
to the homeless people.
 Hackney CCG can use their aligned
fund for various projects.
 Allowing more funds for providing
support to the homeless people.
Social Factors
 Poor housing standards of the residents.
 Over-crowding condition of the city
 More number of homeless people
 Several types of population such as
residents, workers, homeless people,
rough sleepers.
 Increasing number of homeless people
in the city (GOV.UK, 2018).
Technological Factors
 Using of various new technologies by
the St.Mungo
 Hackney has invented an app that can
collect information related to
homelessness.
 Trends in increasing use of internet.
 In London almost 88% people had used
internet (GOV.UK, 2018).
 Less percentage of internet use among
the people who are economically
deprived.
Political Factors