Neighbourhood visits the homeless at Fuutlaan
Eindhoven 27-05-2026 Bron: ED Allemaal gewoon mensen. Op initiatief van buurtbewoner Coy Koopal werden omwonende van de Fuutlaan uitgenodigd om kennis te maken met daklozen die verblijven op de Fuutlaan 10. Koopal deelt de mening dat we helemaal niet zo veel van elkaar verschillen en mocht er overlast zijn dan moeten we daarover in gesprek […]
Ex-homeless individuals can remain in office complex until demolition.
Eindhoven 15-05-2026 Bron: ED Ex-daklozen kunnen tot aan sloop blijven in kantoorcomplex Ex-daklozen in het voormalige kantoor van Woonbedrijf aan de Eindhovense Willemstraat blijven tot aan de sloop in het pand wonen. De tijdelijke ontheffing die Springplank040 had om ongeveer zestig jongvolwassen ex-daklozen te huisvesten, loopt deze maand af maar omdat de sloop pas plaats […]
Jeans collection drive yields almost 3000 pairs: ‘Greater success than hoped for’
Eindhoven 9-4-2026 Source: ED The 'Samen voor onze Regio' Foundation held a fundraising campaign called: Warm a Heart, Give a Jeans. With this campaign, a total of 2912 pairs of jeans were donated, so on April 9th it was time to warm hearts. These trousers will be handed out immediately at shelters according to Jelle van Kruyssen of the Foundation SpringplankSpringplank . […]
Update on tender and reception of Ukrainian refugees
Update on the procurement and reception of Ukrainian refugees Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Springplank has made every effort, often under high time pressure, to arrange safe and humane shelter for Ukrainian refugees. In doing so, we worked intensively with the municipality and other stakeholders. This regularly went beyond [...]
Ticket sales Eindhoven marathon shoots through the roof on first day
Eindhoven 5-03-2026 Source: ED Ticket sales shoot through the roof on first day for Eindhoven marathon but there are still free start tickets for minima again. Shoes and sportswear are also sponsored. Fortunately, people with a narrow purse can still participate. ASML has been working hard for this together with partners such as Stichting Leergeld, the Voedselbank and [...]
Springplank: A New Day
Eindhoven 5-03-2026 Source: Studio040 Becoming homeless, how does it happen? Nice series of videos started at Studio040 about the homeless in Eindhoven. Becoming homeless, how does it happen? And perhaps more importantly, how do you get back on your feet? In Springplank's series A New Day, we follow some people who have experienced it themselves. Raw, honest [...]
After a difficult home situation, Femke ended up on the streets.
Eindhoven 25-02-2026 Source: Studio040 Becoming homeless, how does it happen? Touching video at Studio040 where Femke tells her story and tells what it was like at home and how she became homeless. If you want to see more about this reel click on the following link: Full reel to be seen on Studio040
New venue for Bakkie040
Eindhoven 18-02-2026 Source: ED New place for Bakkie040. Nice article about the relocation of Bakkie040. The coffee shop has reopened in Matchbox, the new wooden building at Strijp-S not far from its old location. The coffee bar's new location is now at Leidingstraat 17a. If you want to read more about this article click on [...]
Unrest over reception of Ukrainians in Eindhoven: ‘I am extremely worried’
Eindhoven 29-01-2026 Source: ED Springplank040 files summary proceedings against the municipality of Eindhoven. It recently had to re-tender for the reception of refugees from Ukraine. Springplank tendered for all four lots for reception in Eindhoven, aiming to keep the current two locations run by Springplank. Two of the [...]
Homeless Eindhoven resident loses both legs after frostbite: aid agencies point to complex problem
Eindhoven 14-01-2026 Source: ED Thijs is interviewed here about the distressing cases in our city during extreme cold. He describes how Springplank and other institutions deal with homeless people who stay outside despite the cold and do not want to go inside easily for whatever reason. You depend on the cooperation of the [...]
Deniz and Marieke do everything they can to get homeless people to the shelter. ‘We are afraid of people freezing to death’
Eindhoven 11-01-2026 Source: Trouw Eindhoven welfare workers Deniz and Marieke of the Springplank Foundation go to extremes for homeless people is described in the daily newspaper Trouw. The homeless they meet are invited to go to the winter shelter or have a hot drink and eat a sandwich at café Bakkie040. Will [...]
Deniz lifts homeless from icy streets: ‘Harrowing to see’
Eindhoven, Omroep Brabant 6-1-2026 Nice article at Omroep Brabant about outreach worker Deniz Ergün trying to provide shelter to homeless people in these cold days. If you want to read more about this article, click on the following link: Full article Omroep Brabant
It's getting cold: winter emergency shelters in Eindhoven and Helmond reopen from Monday
Eindhoven 16-11-2025 Source: ED The Winter Emergency Shelter (WNO) at Sliffertsestraat 300 in Eindhoven will be open every day from Monday between 16:00 and 08:00. Initially, we are open for the people we know,” says Springplank 040 director Thijs Eradus. „For the people who sleep outside and cannot or do not want to go inside. And [...]
Eindhoven is getting richer, but so is poverty: three (free) debates on inequality in the city
Eindhoven 14-11-2025 Source: ED Over the next three Monday evenings (on 17 November and 1 and 15 December), LAB-1 will debate increasing inequality and poverty in a city where prosperity is actually growing. In the first episode, the list leaders of five parties sit down. Do they recognise and acknowledge the problems outlined by [...]
Million shortfall threatens homeless shelter if Eindhoven does not act
Eindhoven 24-10-2025 Source: ED ls Eindhoven does not take measures in the reception of homeless people in the city, the municipality will be short €7.5 million for this in 2027. Eindhoven as a central municipality is finding it increasingly difficult to properly support the homeless in the region. The problem therefore needs [...]
Looking inside the first wooden building at Strijp-S during DDW: this is what it looks like
Eindhoven 23-10-2025 Source: ED Looking inside the first wooden building at Strijp-S during DDW: this is what it looks like The Eindhovens Dagblad on 23 October opens an article about DDW in this wooden building where you can also read stories of people who became homeless at an installation by the Springplank Foundation Want to read more [...]
In five years there will be no more homeless
Eindhoven 11-10-2025 Source: ED No more homeless by 2030 Following the homeless count, Thijs and Geesje explained Springplank's new vision to the Eindhovens Dagblad. Of course, their own housing association and the work agency are covered here. If you want to read more about this article, click on the following link: Full article ED
Survey reveals hidden homelessness in the region
Eindhoven 8-10-2025 Source: ED Impact of homelessness A census was conducted based on the ETHOS method developed in Belgium. The results for Eindhoven are no surprise to Thijs he tells the ED. 'It confirms our impression that more and more people are becoming trapped. For the 15 regional municipalities, the number of [...]
Ex-homeless find place in society again at Happie040: ‘They get more self-confidence’
Eindhoven 28-08-2025 Source: Studio040 A new restaurant has recently opened on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). ‘Happie040’ is an initiative by chef Mounir Toub (pictured) and is largely run by ex-homeless people. It is a meeting place for students, staff and local residents. According to former homeless person and manager Rodin van Zanten, [...]
Homeless shelter longer on VDMA site: ‘We must prevent these people ending up on the streets’
Eindhoven 8-07-2025 Source: ED The temporary shelter for homeless people at the VDMA site on the Vestdijk in Eindhoven will remain open until the end of this year and perhaps until April. However, the municipality must take measures to limit nuisance.The shelter houses homeless people with more complex problems who were previously housed in ’t Eindje on the [...]
Victor goes to a place of hope
Eindhoven 4-07-2025 Source: ED ’t Eindje was a place where vulnerable people usually got out worse than they went in. Now, homeless shelter ’t Eindje in Eindhoven has been converted into a housing complex for people like Victor. If you want to read more about this article click on the following link: Full article ED
Rental property has been vacant for over a year
Eindhoven 3-7-2025 Source: ED A beautiful terraced house in Woensel-Noord that became vacant at the end of May 2024 is still empty. While Ukrainian refugees were supposed to move in. Woonbedrijf has promised improvement and our organisation visited and approved the property last week. ‘The planning is that still this summer the property can be offered to Springplank [...]
Second location of Skaeve Huse
Eindhoven 3-07-2025 Source: ED The Doolstraat in Tongelre may become the second location in the city for up to seven additional Skaeve Huse. These single-person homes are intended for people with misunderstood and often nuisance behaviour. We are very pleased with the proposed expansion because of the great need for this type of housing. Want to read more about [...]
Here, homeless people are no longer ‘cooped up’ in one dormitory: ‘It no longer suits how we want to accommodate them’
Eindhoven 3-07-2025 Source: Studio040 ‘Shacked up’ in a worn-out building under a parking garage, with only a partition between the beds as a form of privacy. For decades, it was the reality at homeless shelter ’t Eindje on Mathildelaan in Eindhoven. After a year-long renovation, that is a thing of the past. 3-7-2025, the 18 studios, with [...]
Many homeless miss out on care: ‘Care companies pick out the easiest patients’
Eindhoven 21-06-2025 Source: Studio040 The number of homeless people in Eindhoven has grown substantially in recent years but not everyone gets the care they need. More and more people with a care indication for sheltered housing end up in the homeless shelters. Many commercial companies operate here, turning away difficult clients. Would you like to [...]
Healthy Fest closes Veldhoven Healthy
Eindhoven 18-06-2025 Source: ED Impact of homelessness The Eindhoven-based Springplank Foundation is organising an activity in Veldwijzer, where interested parties can listen to stories of homeless people. In it, the impact homelessness has on health, both physical and mental. If you want to read more about this article, click on the following link: Full [...]
Springplank040 is ‘very happy with result’ Cyclamen Street
Eindhoven 24-05-2025 Source: ED As you may know or have read, there has been a court case in Den Bosch and a lawsuit at the Council of State regarding the Cyclamenstraat in Eindhoven. Both lawsuits are directed at Eindhoven municipality, Springplank is executing party but therefore an interested party. Both lawsuits were heard in emergency hearings [...]
Through with ‘free money’ youngsters
Eindhoven 13-05-2025 Source: ED The Eindhoven municipality will continue with a project in which vulnerable young people receive intensive guidance, from welfare organisations WijEindhoven, Lumens, Springplank and Neos, to make something of their lives again. For a whole year, this is funded by the municipality. Eindhoven municipality's results with the Bouwdepot are too good [...]
Eindhoven resident Davey (22) walloped by authorities: ‘How can you ever start with a clean slate?’
Eindhoven 25-04-2025 Source: ED 22-year-old Davey from Eindhoven is close to despair. He has been fighting the perception of being a bad father to his children for 2 years. Davey misses his youngest daughter very much and is hindered by his ex to bond with her [...]
Rise in homelessness in Eindhoven continues
Eindhoven 09-04-2025 Source: ED The number of homeless people in Eindhoven is rising faster than before. Partly as a result, the municipality has again decided to extend the current contract with Springplank040. Springplank040 will remain responsible for the reception and guidance of homeless people in Eindhoven for the next two years as well. The current contract between the municipality and [...]
Template new Tom
Eindhoven 18-06-2025 Source: ED Impact of homelessness The Eindhoven-based Springplank Foundation is organising an activity in Veldwijzer, where interested parties can listen to stories of homeless people. In it, the impact homelessness has on health, both physical and mental. If you want to read more about this article, click on the following link: Full [...]
Cooperation between Springplank, VDL and Rijschool Van den Wildenberg gives homeless people hope of getting a driving licence again.
Eindhoven 06-04-2025 Source: ED Mohamed Diallo can now actually get behind the wheel of a learning car thanks to the cooperation between Springplank, VDL and Rijschool Van den Wildenberg. At 14, he fled from Guinea to the Netherlands and went to live with a foster family in Leeuwarden, where he quickly learnt the language. A few years [...]
In practice, the help provided by the Street Doctors is proving to be a dire necessity.
Eindhoven 05-04-2025 Source: Greater Eindhoven With a robust economic growth in Eindhoven, the city is booming. Not everyone shares in the success. A good number of people are left out, have no roof over their heads, and often have to do without medical care. “That has to change,” think [...]
Second Bakkie040 coffee shop opened on TU/e campus
Eindhoven 31-03-2025 Source: ED On the TU/e site, Bakkie040 has opened a new location and more is to follow. In not too long, restaurant Happie040 will also open with the same aim of promoting social connections. Happie040 will open in May, just 20 metres away from the new coffee shop, a restaurant where people can eat for 7.50 [...]
Street care portrayed by Hague photographer
Eindhoven 12-03-2025 Source: EDSStreet care is a ‘profession apart’. Reportage on display until 2 April at Eindhoven city hall Photographer Peter van Beek from The Hague portrayed homeless care in the Netherlands. In Eindhoven, he captured the work of street doctor Peter Meulesteen and practice nurse Mariëlle van der Aa.10 plates with 40 photos are on display [...]
‘A (t)house of its own. On perceptions of homeless people’, until 26 April 2025 at Pennings Foundation in Eindhoven.
Eindhoven 03-03-2025 Source: Brabant Cultureel Beautiful photo exhibition in “Brabant Cultureel” about the hard reality of homelessness today. The current problems surrounding homelessness are explained in great detail including the prejudices about homelessness among policymakers. Thijs is also interviewed here and our project “Stop the silence” is described in the wonderful article. [...]
Our Thijs is Liverpool's biggest fan in Eindhoven
Eindhoven 28-01-2025 Source: ED Our Thijs is Liverpool's biggest fan in Eindhoven and hoped Liverpool had won against PSV but if they do lose then preferably against PSV and so it happened 3-2 on 29-1-2025. This is the first time Liverpool have lost to PSV and he thought [...]
Eindhoven councillors visit winter emergency shelter: ‘Better than sleeping in the freezing cold’
Eindhoven 09-01-2024 Source: Studio 040 Eindhoven councillors visit winter emergency shelter: ‘Better than sleeping in the freezing cold’ The number of homeless people is growing in Eindhoven and this can only be solved by building a lot. This is the conclusion of councillors who visited the winter emergency shelter for the homeless in Meerhoven. Springplank040 can now [...]
Finding sufficient housing places for the heavier category homeless remains a challenge.
Eindhoven, 9-1-2025 Source ED Finding enough housing places for the heavier category homeless remains a challenge. As the regular shelters are overcrowded, a number of homeless people with complex problems now also go to the winter emergency shelter. They often lose their places in the regular shelters because it is difficult to make arrangements with these [...]
Three-course menu in Oud-Woensel for 100 people experiencing loneliness through an initiative by Jasper Meulensteen.
Eindhoven 30-12-2024 Source: ED One hundred participants of the Snowball Dinner at arts and culture institution CKE were treated to a delicious three-course meal on Friday night. Initiator is our Jasper Meulensteen who lives in Oud-Woensel and knows from his own experience what loneliness is. He was able to organise this with the help of Mounir Toub and Wikke from CKE. By releasing the dinner [...]
Construction Eindhoven Victoria Tower finally starts
Eindhoven 04-12-2024 Source: ED 30 of the 370 flats in the newly built Victoria Tower are earmarked for Springplank040 candidates and will be ready in 2.5 years. Position is opposite the PSV stadium. If you want to read more about this article, click on the following link: Full article ED
A moment of mental happiness from the station hall
Eindhoven 29-11-2024 Source: ED Arts and culture coordinator at GGzE Anika Etman came up with the idea for the shop at the railway station to give clients a wider stage. The shop is part of the ‘Eindhoven Loves You’ project. Since 3 September, Eindhoven Centraal has been making spaces available for art and culture projects. It is a [...]
Baking apple strudels with the elderly is not enough.
Eindhoven 29-11-2024 Source: ED The collaboration, “Brainport for each other”, was set up to allow everyone in the region to benefit from economic success. Companies are encouraged to contribute to good initiatives. The often-used example is ASML's helping homeless shelter organisation Springplank040 with ict one day a week. Want to read more about [...]