Womens Housing Action Group (WHAG)

About

WHAG provides support in Rochdale and Bury for women who are homeless or who are at risk of homelessness, and men, women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. 

What we do

The services we provide are:

  • Rochdale Rose Court - For single women aged 18+, from Rochdale, who do not have children living with them, and who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
  • Rochdale floating support - For women aged 18+ who live in Rochdale and have housing issues that mean they need support to stay in their own homes.
  • Rochdale drop in - For women aged over 18 who live in the Borough of Rochdale.
  • Bury domestic Abuse floating support - For men and women who live in the borough of Bury aged 16+ who have experience or are experiencing domestic abuse.
Rochdale Rose Court

Support workers will help people find and apply for their own housing, help them move in, sort out benefits and applications for grants for things such as white good and furniture, and carry out fire and safety checks. They provide resettlement support for up to six weeks to make sure clients will be able to keep their new tenancy in the long term.

You can contact WHAG yourself, or you can ask another person to contact us on your behalf. This might be someone like a doctor, a social worker or a community worker.

For more information you can contact the Rose Court support workers.

Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Telephone: 01706 716435 or 01706 716433.

Email: anisah.sheen@whag.info or susan.ross@whag.info

Rochdale floating support

Clients will receive one-to-one support from WHAG’s Rochdale floating support worker. This can include meetings in community-based locations such as community centres or coffee shops, home visits, and telephone and email support. The first meeting will be to tell you about the support we can offer, and check that WHAG services meet your needs.

If you have very complex needs such as high drug or alcohol dependency or domestic abuse issues, we may refer you on to an organisation that specialises in helping people with these things. We will develop a plan with you that will set out the changes you want to make in your life and the types of support you need. We will agree what you will do and what WHAG will do and how we will support you to reach your goals. The support will usually last for a maximum of 6 months.

For further information you can contact the Rochdale floating support worker:

Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm

Telephone: 07725 760004

Email: julia.johnson@whag.info

Rochdale drop in

The Rochdale drop in sessions are every Wednesday at Recovery Republic, 63-65 York Street, Heywood OL10 4NR.

They start at 10am and run for around two hours. You don’t have to make an appointment, you can just turn up. They are group sessions and the group members decide what they want to do during the sessions.

For more information you can contact Sharon Molly Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Telephone: 01706 716434

Email: sharon.molly@whag.info

Rochdale Life Skills and Tenancy Support Services

If you need help with life skills, tenancy support or fleeing domestic violence and cannot stay in the in the local authority area,

For more information see Rochdale Life Skills and Tenancy Support Service

Rochdale -Young parents service (Gabriel Court)

Gabriel Court is a 24 hour Supported Accommodation Project and support service with 12 independent flats, for young parents’ (male and female) aged between 16-25. We support those who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, who are either pregnant or have a young baby under 12 months at referral.

For further infomation, see Rochdale Young Parent's Service - Gabriel Court

Who to contact

Telephone
01706 298222 01706 298222
E-mail
whag@whag.info
Website(s)

Where to go

Name
Rose Court
Address
679, Manchester Road
Castleton
Rochdale
Postcode

OL11 3AA

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