Centrepoint - London

Giving homeless socially excluded young people a future and working to improve their lives.

What it Provides

It provides a range of accommodation based services, including emergency nightshelters and short stay hostels, specialist projects for care leavers, ex-offenders, young single parents, foyers and supported flats and floating support services. The charity has 16 hostels in London alone and over 100 employees.

History of the Charity

Founded by the Reverend Kenneth Leech and set up its first shelter in a Soho church on the 16 December 1969. Centrepoint opened their first accommodation service outside London in Consett, County Durham on 7 October 2005.

Young homeless individuals took part in the, "Cycle of Life", in 2008 and were from a number of Centrepoint projects.

Centrepoint's former patron was Diana, Princess of Wales and its current Patron is HRH Prince William of Wales.

How you can Help

Donate just 40p a day (£12 a month) to sponsor a room and you could help a homeless young person get off the streets. A room may be the first place that a young man or woman may feel warm and safe, but your donation will mean more than just a room:

• A warm, safe room that a homeless young person can call home for up to two years.

• Counselling and support to help a young person overcome traumas from his past.

• Training and advice to help a young person into college or employment to put his/her homeless days behind them.

• Essential life skills to help a young person live independently.

Our address: - Central House, 25 Camperdown St, London, E1 8DZ

Website

Centrepoint - Chandlers Ford - Hampshire - Chandlers Ford Community Website