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Our new partnership with Omaze unlocks independence for young people

We welcomed our Patron, HRH The Prince of Wales, to the London office to mark 20 years of his patronage of Centrepoint.

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking back on a year of campaigning that has been nothing short of remarkable. And we couldn’t have done it without you – our incredible community of campaigners and loyal supporters.

On 10 February, Centrepoint hosted a Parliamentary Launch Event to unveil its latest findings from the 2025 Databank. The event brought together policymakers, housing experts, and young people with lived experience to discuss the 118,134 young people who were homeless or at risk in 2023-2024.

At Centrepoint we are lucky to have a whole host of famous faces joining our fight to end youth homelessness – from hosting fundraisers to sharing their skills with the young people we work with, to helping us campaign for social change – they give us their support in all sorts of ways.

At Centrepoint, we know that we can’t end youth homelessness on our own – we need to work in partnership with organisations that share the same vision and passion for improving young people’s lives.

Centrepoint has published the first interim report of our youth homelessness prevention work in schools, suggesting the pilot has been very promising so far.

The Awards, hosted by Claudia Winkleman and lead by our Patron, The Prince of Wales, shined a light on young people with experience of homelessness who have transformed their lives with Centrepoint’s support and raised £1.2million towards our work.

Our snow globe installation brings to life the harsh reality of young people struggling to cope with the loss of their home, safety, and security.

Nationwide, Coventry Building Society and The Co-operative Bank have today joined our campaign warning that homeless young people are being forced into unemployment by outdated benefit rules.

Some of the UK’s biggest financial institutions and companies have written to the Chancellor backing Centrepoint’s Make Work Pay campaign to fix a ‘cruel quirk’ in the benefits system that’s forcing young people into unemployment.

The Youth Chapter Collective of over 140 youth, homelessness and housing association organisations have come together to urge the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to support our campaign to Make Work Pay.

In this episode, our senior stories officer Tamsin talks to Cassie, a former resident, about her journey through Centrepoint to fulfilling her dream of qualifying to be an art teacher.

Councils, charities and corporations discussed the current obstacles facing young homeless people who want to work during the roundtable event on Centrepoint’s latest research.

In this episode, we discuss some of the barriers to securing and retaining employment for young people experiencing homelessness.