More on our history

2000: The Government's Rough Sleepers' Unit awards us contracts to run several contact and assessment (outreach) teams, a tenancy support team (to help people moving from hostels to their own flats) and a scheme to prevent people being released from prison becoming homeless

2001: We launch Putting Down Roots, our gardener training project for homeless people

2002: We open a night centre for elderly, entrenched rough sleepers linked in to accommodation on site. This is the only centre of its kind in London

2002: Our Great Escape programme begins providing training for residents on the practical and emotional issues faced when moving into their own home

2003: We produce a 'six triggers to homelessness' guide to help local authorities across London develop a homelessness strategy

2003: We open the first dedicated move-on unit in London to help crack-using sex workers to move away from the streets, for which we win an Andy Ludlow award for innovation in housing

2003: The launch of UK Online means that we are able to provide access to computers and the internet at our Bridge Training Centre and in our main hostels. We also introduce roving IT teams to provide more on-site training opportunities

2003: In partnership with the Department of Health, we set up the first hostel-based Health Action Zone (HAZ) prescribing service. The service surpasses all its clinical targets in its first six months, successfully engaging, referring and retaining hard to reach drug users. The service wins the Care Trust Award for most Innovative New Service

2004: The Hostels Capital Improvement Programme begins providing us with funding to re-modernise many of our hostels and housing projects to improve accommodation and services for homeless people

2004: We open a new life skills annexe at our South London hostel offering hostel residents their first taste of independent living for some time

2004: We continue to lead the sector in developing better data collection, performance indicators and research analysis. Our new Outcomes Star measurement system sets the social housing sector standard for measuring all the stages of client progression

2004: We employ a Client Involvement Co-ordinator to work with our clients to increase their level of influence in developing our services and projects

2005: We appoint a relationship skills co-ordinator in partnership with Relate

2005: Our client involvement group - Outside In - starts

2006: We take on 11 new hostels and housing projects from Novas making us the largest provider of accommodation and support to single homeless people in London

2006: Our Cromwell Road hostel opens, the first of our hostels to benefit from the Hostel Capital Improvement Programme.

2007: St Mungo's Chief Executive, Charles Fraser, receives a CBE for services to homeless people in London

2007: We begin working in HMP Holloway to deliver a nine month pilot scheme to provide community based support to black and minority ethnic women leaving the prison

2007: We adopt the Recovery Approach as a new way of working with our clients, which focuses on clients' goals and aspirations, rather than their needs

2007: An updated and revised version of St Mungo's Outcomes Star is now the leading outcomes measurement tool in the homelessness sector

2008: Our 'Pathways to Employment' programme is launched, an ambitious new programme to support residents in their journey towards realising their vocational aspirations