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Building Hope: A Home for Every Child Rally
Created: 24/06/2026
News/Events Category: Community Events
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When: 10.00am - 3.00pm, Wednesday 26 August 2026
Where: Ps and Gs Church, 10 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RH
This event is being organised by Shelter Scotland
Shelter Scotland and Fife Gingerbread are pleased to invite you to attend a rally as part of a new project Building Hope: A Home for Every Child, funded by the Robertson Trust.
Across Scotland, there are nearly 10,500 children stuck in temporary accommodation, and despite promises and commitments, the situation continues to get worse, not better. We need urgent action to turn the tide.
Building Hope: A Home for Every Child is a partnership working to end child homelessness in Scotland by turning promises into action. The project aims to reduce the number of children in temporary accommodation and ensure that where a stay in temporary accommodation is necessary, it meets the rights of our children to safe, happy and healthy childhoods.
Running from 2026–2028, the project will work to influence national policy and improve local authority practice to close that implementation gap. Through test and demonstration work in Fife, and action research in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the project will work alongside children and families with lived experience of homelessness to identify barriers within the current system and develop practical approaches that improve outcomes for families.
About the rally
This is an event for you as key sector partners, and for the people you support every day. They particularly welcome people with lived experience of homelessness and temporary accommodation, third sector organisations, housing professionals, campaigners, community leaders and anyone committed to improving outcomes for children and families experiencing homelessness.
The rally has been designed as a participatory, action-focused event that centres lived experience, encourages meaningful collaboration, and creates momentum for collective action beyond the day itself. Together, they want to explore the barriers facing children and families, identify opportunities for change, and develop practical commitments that organisations and individuals can take forward.
How to book
Join them as they move beyond discussion and towards collective action for children and families experiencing homelessness. Please note, due to capacity restrictions we may need to limit the number of people attending from each organisation.
They have limited this to a maximum of four people per organisation in the first instance, but they will review closer to the time and please get in touch if you wish to discuss. A full agenda and list of speakers will be shared in due course.
Please sign up for the event here
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