This is a community for digital folk who share our mission to End Homelessness in Manchester (and beyond).

As Street Support Network, working as part of Manchester Homelessness Partnership, we have a backlog of features that have been requested by people with lived experience of homelessness and frontline workers. We are looking for DotNet, front end and ionic app developers, designers, content writers, testers, project managers, and anyone with time and passion that wants to work with us to deliver these benefits and make a real difference.

The recent Manchester #HomelessHack showed there are others working in digital wanting to make a difference, so we wondered... can we create a sustainable digital community that comes together to co-produce features that we know are really needed?

This event is the first in a series of monthly events held in venues in the city centre. There is an open space from 5.30-9.30pm where you can come along to find out more, get set up, work on features together, ask any related questions, and bring along other ideas you might have. Feel free to come and go as you need to, but we will give a brief overview of the project and demo at 6pm for anyone who is interested. We will bring refreshments to share, and if anyone needs helps paying expenses to enable them to come, just let us know.

(If you aren't sure if your skills are useful, the answer is likely to be 'yes!', but if you want to check please email info@streetsupport.net.)

We have been developing streetsupport.net and app versions in Manchester since late 2015 with a tiny core team, led by Vince Lee, and are now supporting other areas of Greater Manchester, working closely with the GM Homelessness Action Network (set up by Andy Burnham and his team). There is far more to be done than we can handle alone, so in the spirit of Manchester worker bees, how about a regular 'raising bee' to get this thing built?! If you can get involved, at these meetups or otherwise, please get in touch.

We welcome anyone who shares this mission to come along and get involved. #StrongerTogether

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