We believe everyone has the right to a home and we believe we thrive in community.

Trinity is currently three communities consisting of homes, shops, meeting spaces, offices and a day centre. We are residents, guests, families, coaches, housekeepers a maintenance team, a tenant team and finance and governance team. All together we number around 800 people, as this changes daily as people join and move on. We arrange ourselves into three arears of responsibility based on our clarity of purpose, capability and the ART of Trinity, the Creative Team, Resource Team and Community Team. We create resource for our community.

The way we conduct ourselves is based on our beliefs that, we are all equal, we all want to end homelessness and we can only do this together. Our model is based on two villages, one in the Dordogne in France; Vertelliac and one on Burkina Faso, West Africa; Rayiri

In both villages the people look after each other, they look after the village and they look after others.

We They both have their own unique meeting patterns and they both know when someone in the community is sick or in need. Both are beautiful models of how a community can work.

At Trinity, a typical neighbourhood has around 18 homes for 90 residents, three coaches, a housekeeper, Hanif from maintenance and Jess from the tenant team. We all meet together and all residents have everyone’s number, so, if a toilet needs fixing, call Hanif. If there’s an issue with rent, call Jess. The chances are Hanif and Jess may well be in the neighbourhood already.

An average house has five residents. As we model looking after each other, looking after the house and looking after others in our own unique way and we know the welfare and support needs of everyone, everyone’s life chances and opportunities improves, and that house, that small community thrives. We then see a ripple effect through the neighbourhood as houses adopt the model.