Our Beliefs, Our Vision, Our Mission

Who are Huggard?

We are a charity and Wales’s leading centre for people who are homeless and sleeping rough in Cardiff.

We have been operating since 1988 working to support clients in their journey out of homelessness.

We know that rough sleeping, wider homelessness and their intendent issues are dangerous; shorten lives and destroy peoples quality of life. More broadly homelessness costs society enormously; financially both directly and indirectly, lost potential of its citizens and psychological impact on all of us.

We believe that childhood and adult trauma plays a significant part in peoples life chances and is a factor in peoples homelessness, substance use and behaviour.
We believe everyone can recover from homelessness
We believe that there is no such things as non-engagement - we need to work out how to engage with all clients no matter how challenging this is.
We believe that the environment in which people live, the relationships they have, the self-worth they feel is critical to this recovery and engagement.

Our Vision

Our Vision therefore is that everyone has a safe, secure home and the opportunities and support to lead a happy, fulfilled life.

Our Mission - How do we bring this about?

We provide trauma informed emergency, life-saving homeless services and interventions to ensure clients have critical health, housing, food, psychological, financial support to address immediate support needs
We provide opportunities and support for and with our clients to ensure longer term recovery - access to longer term housing, skills programmes, client involvement opportunities and access to and support in work.
We work with partners and our locale and wider community to ensure clients have a positive progressive network of support and are responsible citizens.
We work with government, businesses, housing associations and other charities to deliver better more effective services and improve policy and practice

What about other donations such as toiletries, clothing, sleeping bags and back packs?

If you wish to give toiletries, please make sure they are in small, “trial” or “holiday” sized containers. People who are homeless have no-where to keep their belongings and wouldn’t be able to carry around large bottles or packages.

We also welcome donations and what we need will vary depending on the time of year and demand. You can see what we currently require here.

What other support do you offer people who are sleeping rough?

As we explained, people who sleep rough don’t do so out of choice. Our specialist teams provide a range of support services and you can read about what we do and why here.

Do you work with other organisations?

Yes, we work closely with colleagues in the health, third and public sectors.