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Ending Youth Homelessness: LandAid’s Plan 2024-2029

We exist to help end youth homelessness in the UK.

Yet, despite everything we are doing, as a society we are failing to stem the tide of youth homelessness or solve the crisis.​​

We need to do things differently.

Our vision

An end to youth homelessness in the UK.

Our mission

Unite the property industry to end youth homelessness.

Why LandAid?​

We are the only charity able to aggregate and multiply the property industry’s effort and funding to maximise impact, nationwide.​ We do this by bringing together our extraordinary network of remarkable companies and individuals from across all sections of the property industry, to leverage, channel, and multiply their unique capacity to tackle youth homelessness. Our expertise allows us to target investment and support to the very best charities tackling homelessness, right across the UK, empowering them to maximise their impact.

The urgent need – why act now?

Every Minute Matters

Every four minutes, a young person in the UK becomes homeless. Thousands more go uncounted, sleeping in unsafe accommodation, on friends’ sofas, or on the streets. The numbers are increasing at an alarming rate, with 136,000 16-25 year olds experiencing homelessness last year alone. With each passing minute, another young person grapples with the uncertainty of where they will sleep tonight.

This winter, we need the industry to rally together and tackle this crisis by raising £1.36 million to support the thousands of young people facing homelessness right now.

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Our long term plan

Through our strategy we will provide homes, jobs and skills, maximising our impact through three key areas.

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Place

Creating long-term change in targeted locations with the greatest need, by using collaborative solutions.

Our regional hubs

Pro Bono

Providing £1 million of Pro Bono support per year, and £4.5 million of Vodafone data to charities across the UK.

LandAid Pro Bono Programme

In the next five years we will positively support 10,000 young people.

  • 5,500

    young people supported into accommodation

  • 1,000

    young people supported into training and employment

  • 3,500

    young people helped to build their foundations to grow

  • £ 150 million

    of social value created

The youth homelessness crisis is getting worse.

There are a many reasons for this. Some include:

  • Economic, legislative, health and infrastructure inequalities, 
  • Family or relationship break down,
  • Difficulty in accessing complex mental health support,
  • Cuts to charities and local authorities,
  • Lack of social housing,
  • Increasingly unaffordable private rented sector,
  • No UK wide government plan to tackle youth homelessness, and no nation-wide plan for England and Northern Ireland.

Who are the young people experiencing homelessness?

Young people aged 16-25 who have no permanent, fixed address, have been served an eviction notice, or are at risk of sleeping rough on the streets.

What does an ‘end to youth homelessness’ mean?

It is impossible to guarantee that no young person will ever experience homelessness. Instead, we aim to ensure that everything is done to prevent homelessness, and where this is not possible, such experiences should be rare, brief and non-recurring.

Read our full strategy

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Support our mission

By becoming a corporate partner, donating your professional expertise or fundraising for LandAid, you will play a vital role in providing homes, jobs and skills for young people experiencing homelessness, giving them the foundations to grow.

Support our mission

Take part in an event

Check out our events for 2024-25. Join us to have fun, challenge yourself and support young people through the heartache of homelessness.

Take part in an event

Young people’s stories

LandAid supports charities across the UK who give young people experiencing homelessness the lifeline that they so desperately need.

Young people’s stories