Preventing homelessness among young people
We currently deliver a range of accommodation and support services to young people across several London boroughs.
We help prepare our young residents aged 8-19 for the challenges of the modern world, supporting them to stay safe, contribute to society and be the best they can be.
We know that our younger residents can face a range of pressures and influences in their everyday lives.
Through the charity, we fund an in-house youth services team which provides a whole host of activities. In addition, we work with partners to provide youth services for the benefit of young people living in our homes.
We provide free weekly youth clubs, youth focused training, holiday programmes and youth projects.
Our aim is to help our young people to:
Please note: Due to the coronavirus, we have temporarily closed our youth clubs and have suspended our school holiday programme. However, our youth development officers are available to provide advice and ideas for keeping young people active and to keep you (parents and carers) updated of any changes to the current situation.
Whilst our youth clubs are temporarily closed, we're still running weekly sessions on Zoom for our young residents packed with fun activities such as quizzes, games and arts & crafts. Email us for more details and to book your session.
Also, there are also some great organisations which are continuing to provide help and advice to young people while we wait for our services to go back to normal.
Our weekly youth club sessions provide a safe place to socialise and be with friends. We provide a social education programme that include; sports, arts and crafts, cooking, media games and various other creative and fun activities at:
During the school holidays, we provide a calendar of free activities. These help our young residents to have fun, visit museums or other sites of cultural interest, and widen their positive peer network.
In addition, during the holidays, we hold weekday daytime youth clubs at:
To attend our youth club or one of our school holiday programmes, you will need to register with us first. We can also tell you what activities are taking place near you.
We recognise that schools and other services play an enormous role in the lives of our residents. We work with schools and statutory youth service sectors and other community, charitable and faith based organisations.
We are part of the Housing Associations Youth Network (HAYN) and we partner, and are registered with, London Youth, UK Youth, Youth Employment UK, Centre for Youth Impact and Vision for Young Londoners.
We fund free, weekly English and Maths tuition for some of the primary school children aged between 8-11 years old in Virginia Quays, Tower Hamlets to help them feel more confident to succeed in their education. The hour-long sessions are delivered in a fun learning environment every Thursday during term time and are run by Tutors United, a not-for-profit organisation which recruits and trains university students to tutor children in communities.
Register to access this service
These sessions are very popular and tend to be fully booked. However, please do get in touch to register your interest and to check availability.
We are a partner, along with other housing associations, of the Sports Inspired and London Sport programme in Tower Hamlets. This provides structured and inclusive sports events across different disciplines with coaching and mini-tournaments within the borough.
We are partners of:
We are always interested in hearing from people and organisations working on similar projects. If you would like to get in touch to find out how we could possibly work together or how you could support or sponsor our existing programmes, please contact us.