What is Survive & Thrive?

Survive and Thrive is our coordinated tenancy sustainment and floating support service, which, since its inception in 2021, has developed the flexibility to respond to ad hoc support requests from service users and partner agencies alike.

Trusted relationships are key to this service, both with those being supported, which takes time to build, and those providers with whom we work.

Survive and Thrive is a very flexible service, but most of its activities fall within one of the following areas:

  • Tenancy sustainment and resettlement support – help with settling in, housing benefit claims, finding move-on accommodation, signposting to services, coordinating access to agencies for substance misuse, mental health, etc.
  • Meals, food-parcels and practical help – volunteers from St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church deliver this on our behalf.
  • Rapid moving-in service – working with volunteers to provide a one-stop shop for sourcing furnishings, linen, household items, decorating, etc.
  • Management services – management support for frontline rough sleeper/homelessness projects that other agencies plan to undertake.
  • Partnership development – we assist new or existing agencies connect with partners to enable a better solution to meet frontline needs.
  • Pastoral care and welfare – we work with the Ely Diocese Bishop’s Officer for Homelessness, a role hosted by the Cambridge Churches Homeless Project (CCHP) and funded by various church agencies.
  • Supported modular housing – support for tenants of the It Takes a City Community Land Trust.
Four people sit around the table in Crossways dining room

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Survive & Thrive Case Studies

  • Neil

    ‘Neil’ is a male in his late thirties and a forces veteran. Prior to coming to Crossways Winter Provision in January 2025, he served a prison sentence for [...]

  • Darren

    ‘Darren’ is a male in his early forties who had exclusions from multiple services in the city and had been sleeping rough by the river in Cambridge for [...]

  • Mark

    'Mark' is a 39-year-old male who had lost several forms of accommodation over the last decade, due to a combination of behavioural issues and the accumulation of arrears. [...]