Chesterfield customers help Yorkshire Building Society raise £1million in aid of homeless young people

The town’s branch of Yorkshire Building Society has collected £2,178 for its End Youth Homelessness Project in three and a half years, helping more than 455 young people and 95 dependent children into rented homes.

There were 246 young people in Chesterfield, who were homeless or at risk of homelessness, who contacted the local authority in the year 2018 to 2019. Across the country there were 110,000 young people in this situation.

Carole Clark, manager of the Chesterfield branch of the building society, said: “I want to thank everyone in the community here in Chesterfield that has supported our partnership with End Youth Homelessness. Through our partnership, we’ve helped young people to overcome some of the enormous financial barriers to living independently like rental deposits, the first month’s rent, or household essentials and furniture.”

Building society branches have raised £1m for the project through public donations, savings accounts and colleagues fundraising.

End Youth Homelessness charities collectively work with 30,000 deprived young people. Nicholas Connolly, managing director for End Youth Homelessness, said: “The partnership between Yorkshire Building Society and End Youth Homelessness was about housing homeless young people. We have created a brilliant service that works for homeless young people and a blueprint for scaling other great local services.”