Mayday Trust

Formed in 1976 by Probation Officer Michael Varah and Probation Volunteer Jim Higgins. Mayday Trust is a forward-thinking organisation working alongside people going through some of the toughest life transitions, including people experiencing homelessness, leaving care, coming out of prison, or experiencing emotional distress. After 30 years of delivering conventional services to those experiencing homelessness, ten years ago Mayday Trust began to develop a new way of working alongside people going through tough times the Person-led, Transitional and Strength-based (PTS) Response. Through listening and learning from the reality of peoples lives, Mayday found that when tough times, such as homelessness, happen people often know what they need to get through, however are rarely able to access it. Instead, people are forced down routes they know wont work for them and left feeling out of control. Worse still, these process-led responses can prolong tough times or even make situatio...