CENTREPOINT FOR YOUNG HOMELESS Updated

Centrepoint Helpline open now

0808 800 0661

Centrepoint a monument to the public willing to help and another disgrace to the Government. It should be them to install it years ago but as long the public is willing to fund; they stand back with their hand in their pockets.

Centrepoint is a charity for young people who are in trouble and become or are homeless. Centrepoint has a very tall building in the middle of London and various branches all over.

The unsung charity is helping 9,000 each year of the most vulnerable young people between 16 and 25 years old with accommodation and training to get a job.

Prince William is the patron of the charity. He remembers when his mother used to take Princes William and Harry there, unannounced, to talk to the people.  Despite of his heavy schedules, he never forgot and still visits the various places of Centrepoint.

On one of his visits he noticed that young people have no Freephone to turn to when in most desperate need.  The Evening Standard Newspaper took it upon itself to run a campaign for funding.

If you wish to contribute call 0300 330 2731 – TEXT HONE66£5to70070 – CLICK standard.co.uk/homelesshelpline.

Apparently, there are 150,000 calls asking for help while 50,000 of them are send away without any help or advice. It is a large number of young people, having serious trouble and do not know where to turn to. They are doomed to sleep on the streets and are most vulnerable to alcoholism, drugs, prostitutes and paedophiles

Now Evening Standard collected around £3million and a Freephone national helpline will be open this month, February 2017, to take every call to help everyone. It will be soon extended to SMS, webchat and every form of digital communication to give the widest opportunity to call.

The money will also be used to train young people in skills and give them confidence to find a job and a home.

Arsenal Football Club is also joining in and started a project “Street Soccer” where they can join in to be trained by the club’s professional footballers. They might not all turn out like Messi but it gives the youngsters some interest and confidence to keep them away from street gangs.

There are endless stories of youngsters being in great trouble and were helped by Centrepoint. Young people being thrown out of their family homes or left by their own account because they could not take it anymore.  Where else would they go, but live on the street. Young girls who fell pregnant deserted by the boyfriend and then the family. Young boys who got into the wrong crowd. Youngsters whose stepfather or stepmother and even mothers or fathers cannot cope, or want to, with them are being thrown out.

Unbelievable, but it happens quite a lot as the evidence shows and they would end up on the street if it were not for Centrepoint.

If you think about it, it must be absolutely devastating to find yourself alone on the street with no one to help.

Now, the new Centrepoint Helpline will be even more focussing on keeping young people off the street. Wonderful News!