A history of achievements

Elmore Community Services has a local and national reputation for delivering innovative services and pioneering research. Here are a few highlights from our history.

1. October 2009: The ASB Team is Runner Up in the Group Award for exemplary practice in resolving anti-social behaviour incidents at the 2009 Social Landlords Crime and Nuisance Group Awards.
2. June 2009: New funding enables us to set up No Place Like Home, an innovative Client Project that trains people with experience of sleeping rough to give presentations in schools.
3. April 2009: New funding enables Elmore to establish the Parenthood Team, which works with young parents with complex needs.
4. February 2009: New funding enables Elmore to set up the Prisoners' Support Team, which supports offenders with complex needs who are about to be released into the Oxford City community.
5. January 2009: We are selected as a recommended charity by New Philanthropy Capital.
6. October 2008: Members of a Client Project film and produce a short DVD about the work of our ASB Team.
7. November 2007: A new pilot service providing intensive support to people coming under Anti Social Behaviour legislation who have mental health issues is introduced.
8. October 2007: Elmore user group begins an anti stigma and discrimination project
9. June 2007: Elmore incresaed its work with offenders by implementing a specialist prison post to begin working with people with complex needs prior to their release from custody.
10. October / November 2006: Elmore workers and clients carried out a survey of the needs of rough sleepers in Oxford. Report pending.
11. Summer 2006: Working with the police, we completed a successful pilot outreach project to engage with sex workers. Report pending.
12. August 2006: We refined our model and introduced a team approach, which enables us to prioritise our workload, so we're better equipped to respond in a crisis.
13. May 2006: We completed a six-month evaluation into the needs of prisoners due to be released to ‘no fixed abode’ (NFA) in Oxford City. Read the report.
14. May 2006: Shelter concluded a 15-month project monitoring our work with rough sleepers. The project is summarised in Catching people who fall through the net.
15. May 2005: Elmore's User Group started.
16. 2001-03: Funded jointly with Connection and Oxford Night Shelter, we delivered an older homeless people project.
17. 1999: With funding from the Department of Health, we researched and produced Reflections: user and agency perspectives on dual diagnosis in the City of Oxford.
18. 1994: We organised a successful court diversion scheme for mentally disordered people.
19. 1991: The pilot project ended, and several statutory funding bodies agreed to jointly fund the service, which became known as the Elmore Team. The funders remain involved with Elmore today.
20. 1990: We recruited a Continuing Care Worker to work with clients with HIV/AIDS and other physical health problems.
21. 1988: An Oxford research project studied the weaknesses of service provision for people deemed ‘difficult to place’. The result was a three-year pilot project for people who have complex needs. This was the beginnings of the Elmore Team.

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