Where is my room?
Centrepoint gives 779 homeless young people a bed every night across 36 Centrepoint hostels and housing services. Your room is in one of them. To protect the privacy of the young person who’s staying there, we’re afraid we can’t tell you the exact location of your room.
Am I the only person sponsoring the room?
If we only allowed one person to sponsor each room, we would have to set the price of room sponsorship much higher. So we allow several people to sponsor each room.
What does my sponsorship cover?
As well as paying for the basic costs of the room, such as heating, lighting, bedding and hot water, you are also helping to pay for the range of support services we offer to every young person who stays with us. From the minute they move into the room you sponsor, we work with them to get their lives back on track. Your regular gift will be used to assist young people in sponsored rooms and for the general purposes of Centrepoint.
Why can’t I sponsor a homeless young person?
Young people move in and out of Centrepoint hostels daily. Some will stay for just a few days when they are in crisis. Others will stay for up to two years, and we may even support them when they are living independently. Because of the sheer range of work we do with young people, it makes much more sense to offer people like you the chance to sponsor a room. While you are sponsoring that room you may make a difference to just one young person’s life, or several.
Can I get in touch with the person in my room?
To protect the young people we work with, we can’t give out personal details, but we can pass on your messages via our room sponsorship coordinator.
Are these young people real?
Yes. By sponsoring a room you¹re helping real young people who are living at Centrepoint. However the protection of the young people we work with is paramount. So the identities of the young people featured on this website have been changed and their photographs are posed by models. However their stories are true. There's no exaggeration and no other details have been changed.