St Basils works with young people to enable them to find and keep a home, grow their confidence, develop their skills, increase opportunities and prevent homelessness.
Find Out MoreIt’s a really tough time at the moment for everyone as we respond to the challenges presented by Coronavirus. We want to assure you that our priority and focus is on preventing and responding to youth homelessness in the West Midlands. And whilst some of the ways we help may have to adapt, you can be sure that at the heart of everything we do, will be the health and wellbeing of the young people who need our support and the colleagues who provide it.
We have already put in a raft of measures to make sure we can carry on functioning as normally as possible. Some of these measures are outlined here.
St Basils houses almost 500 young people every single night. We’re short of £5 a day per young person staying in one of our projects. That £5 will assist in supporting each young person out of homelessness and transform their life.
Coronavirus or not, our work continues, regardless. If you can afford to help us, please donate now.
We have now refreshed the national Positive Pathway frameworks, advising on preventing youth homelessness, the youth justice accommodation pathway and on assisting care leavers.
Youth homelessness nationally St Basils Charter
“I didn’t become a statistic… I thank St Basils for the opportunities, which I doubt would ever have come if I hadn’t discovered they existed.”
-One ex-resident shares her story.
10th Nov, 2020
Whilst we couldn’t hold our usual Youth Homeless Parliament event at parliament this year, Youth Voice members spread across England worked hard to produce an online equivalent. The report and video are now available to view here.
Read more +13th Nov, 2020 @ 12:00am — 25th Dec, 2020 @ 12:00am
Let’s face it, it hasn’t been the best of years. So, let’s get into the festive spirit early by making every Friday in December ‘Work from Home Christmas Jumper day’.
Read more +17th Nov, 2020
Demi has lived at St Basils for the past two years and was the first St Basils young person to be awarded a Bears Bursary grant by the Edgbaston Foundation, the official charity of Warwickshire County Cricket Club. As part of our partnership with the Club, the bursary is available to St Basils young people to help alleviate some of the barriers to young people accessing education, training and work.
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