Specsavers partners with EveryYouth

Specsavers partners with EveryYouth to support young people facing homelessness

Specsavers is proud to announce EveryYouth as the sixth homelessness organisation to join its Homelessness Programme.

EveryYouth is the UK wide charity dedicated to helping young people experiencing homelessness across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, reaching more than 40,000 young people each year. EveryYouth helps 16- to 25-year-olds to reach their full potential with life changing employability, health and housing support.

This new partnership builds on the success of Specsavers’ involvement with Project Flourish, a ground-breaking EveryYouth initiative created in collaboration with Hays, the leading recruitment and workforce solutions provider, that creates employment opportunities for young people who have faced homelessness.

Through the Homelessness Programme’s Charity VIP scheme, young people supported by EveryYouth will now have access to free eye and ear health care at Specsavers practices across the UK.

‘We know that homelessness disproportionately affects young people, so we’re grateful to be working with EveryYouth to provide free eye and ear health care via our Charity VIP scheme and also to offer employment opportunities through Project Flourish,’ says Jo Osborne, Homelessness Programme Lead at Specsavers.

Nicholas Connolly, CEO of EveryYouth, says: ‘Health and employment are inextricably linked to living independently. The young people we support have immense potential.  This partnership is already making a tangible difference helping young people to leave homelessness behind so they can live a life they are proud of.’