Weathering the Storm: our impact for young people in 2023-2024

Posted on: 22 October 2024

This has been another extraordinary year for New Horizon.

What we achieved:

  • We worked with 1,479 young people in total
  • There were 10,847 visits to our drop in day centre
  • 357 young people were placed in short term or emergency accommodation
  • 210 young people secured long-term housing
  • 101 young people were supported through our street outreach services
  • 385 young people received jobs, education and training support

Lots more statistics and a breakdown of all our activities can be found in the Impact Report 2022-2023: Weathering The Storm

 

We are seeing the highest rates of youth homelessness ever. The cost-of-living crisis, housing and rental crises and disinvestment in youth services, employment and education have left far too many young people struggling. On top of this, at the centre we saw a big increase in young refugees approaching us for help last year as they were being evicted from Home Office hotels.

In London, young people are the highest growing demographic of people who sleep rough (Chain year end data, March 2024) and in 2022-23 20,200 young people went to their council as homelessness, up 20% on the year before (Centrepoint databank, 2023).

Throughout all of this our teams have worked incredibly hard to keep our services going strong, and as the statistics and quotes show – there have been some amazing results:

NHYC has helped me to find accommodation, having stable accommodation has meant I’ve been able to go to college.

– Noor, aged 21

New Horizon helped me fix my situation. I’m off the streets so I’m not sleeping rough. They’ve helped me get referrals when other places were not helping me. So I appreciate New Horizon a lot.

– R, aged 22, working with our Youth Justice Team

 

To find out how our teams continued to deliver brilliant services, our partnerships bore fruits and our campaigns pushed boundaries, read our Impact Report 2022-2023: Weathering The Storm


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