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This year, we're proud to celebrate a significant milestone with one of Centrepoint's longest-standing corporate partners: 10 years of partnership with the ASOS Foundation.

In 2024-2025 councils in England faced £325 million funding shortfall, whilst 1/3 young people were turned away for homelessness support.

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

Strictly Come Dancing’s Neil Jones, Virtual Pub Quizmaster Jay Flynn, and graffiti artist Opake shared their inspiring stories of overcoming homelessness for our new social media campaign #MyBreakthrough.

Our research shows that in the year 2020/21, 122,000 young people in the UK approached their council for help as they were currently homeless or at risk of homelessness – a 40% rise in the last four years.

More than 46,000 young women presented to their local authority as they were homeless or at risk of homelessness last year. We know the main drivers for homelessness can be different for women, as are their experiences of support. Our Policy and Research Assistant talks us through her findings of our latest report.

This episode asks what does homelessness mean for women? How do we empower survivors of domestic abuse? And what needs to be done to support and secure young women’s futures?

A young person being supported by Centrepoint in London, has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calling on the Government not to forget about young people and all those who are struggling, and to provide the support people need during the cost-of-living crisis.

At London’s Lyric Theatre, Lisa Maxwell led the musical show of everyone’s dreams, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Judy Garland’s birth. Our long serving ambassador Lisa Maxwell led the charge by grouping all of her musical contacts together and putting on a show you could never forget - ‘Judy: No Place Like Home’.

We explore some of the ways in which young people facing homelessness are made even more vulnerable through public spending, and the steps that can be taken to give them the support they need.

Footballing stars John Stones, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Sir Geoff Hurst, Beth Mead and Micah Richards, were joined by comedian Jack Whitehall, England rugby pro Ugo Monye, TV personality Mark Wright and many more familiar faces, to support this year’s Christmas campaign.

Isolated, lonely and often battling significant mental health issues, young trans people disproportionately find themselves homeless through no fault of their own. It’s a desperate situation that has to change.

There’s one big wish we have for Christmas every year: to end youth homelessness for good. But Harry Styles donating funds from one of his most-loved songs to help us out with this mission? Well, that might be a close second…

Stockpiling, meal hacks and exercise: Centrepoint young panellists discuss mental health in a cost of living crisis and how prioritising one's mental health is more important than ever.

Ed Worley – better known as graffiti artist Opake – treated current Centrepoint residents and former residents, to a meet and greet to kick off his new art exhibition ‘Sanity through Repetition’.