We are so grateful to all the individuals who support St Basils and our work preventing youth homelessness. Whether it be people in business or the young person who donates their pocket money to us, everyone is making a major difference to the lives of young people across the West Midlands.

However, from time to time there are individuals who go above and beyond in their support for us and we like to celebrate them as our ‘supporter of the quarter’. The supporter we’ve chosen this quarter needs no introduction. (But we will try anyway).

By the end of this week it is hoped that the COVID-19 vaccine will be available to all adults nationwide but prior to this it has been available to certain groups of vulnerable people across the nation, including homeless young people aged under 25, but nationally take up has been low.

Groundswell are a charity that work to enable people who have experience of homelessness to create the solutions to homelessness and benefit wider society. They heard about our national Youth Voice project which has a similar aim, working with young homeless people, and asked to do a joint campaign to give young people all the facts about the vaccine and encourage them to take up the offer.