Roundabout is South Yorkshire’s local youth housing charity providing shelter, support and life skills to young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
When Roundabout first began in 1977, we operated a small emergency hostel accommodation for young people. Over forty years later, our vision is to end youth homelessness in South Yorkshire.
Roundabout supports over 350 young people aged 16-25 every day. Alongside providing emergency accommodation in our hostel, we support young people in residential projects in Sheffield and Rotherham and provide key services delivering comprehensive programmes of training, involvement and empowerment to help to prepare young people for independent living.
We want to make sure that no young person experiences homelessness in South Yorkshire. We aim to empower young people to break the cycle of homelessness by helping them develop long term independent living skills and supporting them with their health, education, employment and training needs. We want to support them in their time of need, as every young person deserves the chance to have a bright future.
We are strongly committed to preventing youth homelessness and deliver highly effective mediation and drop-in advice services as well as homeless education in schools. Our ground breaking Peer Education Project is delivered by trained volunteer Peer Educators who have experienced homelessness themselves.
Whilst our Homeless Prevention Service is there for anyone who needs support and advice, we recently found that not all vulnerable young people were coming to our drop-in to seek help. We began to see rough sleepers in Sheffield who were aged under 25 – these young people immediately became our priority, leading to us developing of a new street outreach team called Rapid Rehousing. We now have dedicated workers who actively go out into the community, identify homeless young people who need intensive support and help them to access accommodation and develop their long term living skills.
You can make a difference to the lives of young people at risk of homelessness. Donate today to help give vulnerable young people in South Yorkshire a brighter future.
