2025 Enhanced

Annual Review and Impact Report 2025

Herts Young Homeless (hyh) has been preventing youth homelessness in Hertfordshire since 1998. Their annual report covers prevention, outreach, Nightstop emergency accommodation and school-based education programmes, with a vision to directly prevent homelessness for 2,500 young people by 2030.

Report snapshot
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About

Prevention, early intervention, crisis support, Nightstop Herts emergency accommodation, outreach, education programmes, floating support, health services

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 2,000 young people supported per year across Hertfordshire
Key Metric 2 5,400+ young people helped over the last 5 years
Key Metric 3 Goal to directly prevent homelessness for 2,500 young people by 2030

Key Outcomes

  • Young people prevented from becoming homeless through family mediation and early intervention
  • Young people housed through Nightstop Herts and supported accommodation
  • School and college education programmes reaching young people before crisis

Geography

East of England

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
4,050 residents living across 14 retirement villages and 4 housing schemes
Key Metric 2
£5.4 million in new benefit entitlements generated for residents by the Welfare Benefits Team
Key Metric 3
6,700+ wellbeing drop-in sessions and 600 resilience assessments delivered
92% resident satisfaction rating in villages and 96% in schemes
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
1,481 young people supported in 2024/25, with 325 accommodated across all services
Key Metric 2
3,216 counselling sessions delivered to 528 young people, a 101% increase on the previous year
Key Metric 3
A Social Return on Investment analysis found every £1 invested generates £6.80 of social impact
78% of young people in Supported Accommodation demonstrated positive progression, up from 62% the prior year
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
5,952 children and young people supported across Sussex and Surrey in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
896 young people provided with a safe home, and 4,186 children provided with counselling services
Key Metric 3
870 children, young people and families received specialist information, advice and support
81% of residents said they were satisfied with the service provided