Every four minutes another young person faces homelessness.

Thousands of young people will be facing homelessness alone this winter. No young person should be left struggling on freezing streets. 

Will you make this winter the turning point, by sponsoring a room at Centrepoint? Your kindness could give a young person a stable home – often for the first time in their life. Instead of worrying about what to eat or where to sleep, they can start to put their lives back together, safe in the knowledge that we’ll be there for as long as they need us.

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Carim on his bed in a Centrepoint service

Carim's Story

At just 15, Carim had to escape his home country, Syria and made a treacherous journey alone to the UK. Freezing, Carim had no access to food or clean clothes.

Luckily, Carim was taken to an asylum-seekers holding centre where he was referred to Centrepoint. At Centrepoint, Carim finally had a safe place to sleep at night and a team of experts who cared about him, listened to him and were on his side – every step of the way. His Key Worker, Maria, helped him find his feet in a new country. She helped him apply for housing, register with a GP and enrol on a vital English course. At last, Carim had an adult who he could trust and rely on.

 "Centrepoint feel like a family. We can all celebrate together. I had never celebrated Christmas before. On Christmas day, we ate with staff and other residents. We also received gifts. It was a special time and I felt at home." - Carim

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