SOLAR - Strengthening Opportunities for Learning and Actualisation for Rough Sleepers - is a service that connects homeless support and other local organisations in Southall to provide volunteering opportunities for rough sleepers with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) so that they can acquire new skills and connections in the local area. This service aims to support rough sleepers with NRPF, within the existing opportunities available in local spaces, to engage with safe and meaningful activities in the daytime and benefit their future career development. A pilot programme was tested with project partners - Hope for Southall Street Homeless and Southall Transition.

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A set of principles and recommendations for the Ealing Council and other local councils to engage with and support rough sleepers with NRPF are drawn from the case study of the pilot pogramme of SOLAR, for future application and reflection when they approach complex social issues.