Action day to End Youth Homelessness

The Exeter branch of Yorkshire Building Society will be holding an action day on Thursday, May 25, in support of its charity partnership with End Youth Homelessness (EYH).

Colleagues at the branch on the High Street will be selling cakes, holding a guess the sweets in the jar competition and selling EYH trolley coin key rings in support of the partnership.

Other Society colleagues around the UK are cycling, rowing, running and walking to raise funds for EYH as the Society takes up the challenge of travelling 83,000 kilometres over their three year partnership – one kilometre for every homeless young person in the UK.

EYH brings together local charities as a national movement to end homelessness among 16-25 year-olds in the UK.

Kat Overall, Manager of the Exeter branch of Yorkshire Building Society, said: “We are proud to be in partnership with End Youth Homelessness and hope our customers and members of the public in Exeter dig deep to help us support such a worthy cause.

“We will be raising funds for rent deposit guarantees, home essentials grants, and practical help for homeless young people seeking to live independently.”

Yorkshire Building Society aims to raise £750,000 over the course of the partnership to support over 700 homeless young people into their own rented homes.

Rosie Mellor, Partnership Manager for End Youth Homelessness, said: “Yorkshire Building Society colleagues are really stepping up with this fantastic fundraising challenge which helps to raise awareness of the shockingly high number of homeless young people in the UK.”

For more information please visit www.ybs.co.uk/societymatters