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Centrepoint’s activities team empower vulnerable young people into independence

21st January 2022 Pascale Day, Senior Editorial and Web Officer

As our former engagement team begin to reintroduce events and outings that aim to inspire and empower as the HOMES Activities Team, we caught up with them after a residential outing to Staffordshire, which brought together homeless young people from services all over the country for some daring outdoor activities. Here, the team tell us what these trips mean to young people, and just how it helps them prepare for independence.

Using peer research to campaign for change

4th February 2022 Eurydice Belezika, Peer Research Coordinator

Eurydice Belezika, Peer Research Coordinator and former Centrepoint resident in London, talks about her experience of conducting research and campaigning to support disadvantaged young people.

Young people don't know their housing rights - and it's working against them

6th May 2022 Pascale Day, Senior Editorial and Web Officer

Everyone should have a place they can call home. And yet, our research shows the number of homeless young people keeps growing. Many factors can feed into youth homelessness, but access to housing is a big one – and addressing these barriers to secure long-term accommodation is key.

Prince William opens the new Reuben House development as part of our Independent Living Programme

17th July 2023 Zan Langton, Senior Website and Digital Content Officer

Earlier this month our patron, The Prince of Wales, officially opened our new housing development in Peckham, South London, providing 33 new flats for young people between 18-25.

Ready to move on: barriers to homeless young people accessing longer term accommodation

Across Centrepoint’s services, almost one in five young people were reported as being ready to move on but unable to do so, with a third of these having been ready to move on for longer than six months. This report seeks to identify the key barriers faced by young people looking to move on, in order to understand what needs to be done to help homeless young people ready to take the next step and move into stable longer term accommodation.

Talkin' about my generation: 50 years of growing up and moving out

For the past five decades Centrepoint has supported homeless young people to turn their lives around. In 2019, no young person should find themselves homeless yet we are supporting more young people than ever through our accommodation services and national Helpline.

Together provides quarter of a million donation to Centrepoint

5th June 2023

Specialist lender, Together, are working with Centrepoint to fund our innovative Independent Living Programme.

Centrepoint patron Prince William launches ‘Homewards’ homelessness initiative

30th June 2023

The Homewards initiative will test ideas and models to end homelessness in six locations across the UK, supported by our Patron, Prince William.

Rebekah Kennington

Radio 2’s Sara Cox visits Reuben House scheme to support our Independent Living programme

17th July 2023

Sara Cox attended the official opening of our new housing development in Peckham, South London, alongside our patron HRH The Prince of Wales.

Moneywise evaluation

We explored which elements of Moneywise work well/least well with young people through a process evaluation focusing on engagement, experience and effectiveness.