BYHP gets a makeover

Charity gets a new logo as it focuses on larger range of services on offer

A well-known local charity for young people is about to undergo a makeover as it seeks to promote the wide range of services it provides today.   Banbury Young Homelessness Project (BYHP) launched in 1995 but now offers an expanded range of support over the projects core aims at inception.

The Charity makes available a number of specialist interventions with support, advice and guidance to Young People aged 13 to 25 and their families facing known root causes of youth homelessness.

BYHP, which is located in Chandos Close, Banbury, is set to launch a new identity at the Oxfordshire Youth in Mind Conference, featuring a new logo with a fresh and clean image.

Chief Executive Patrick Vercoe said: “Many people in Banbury and the surrounding areas will be familiar with our purple logo and a house background in our current livery. We wanted to signal that our range of services has expanded substantially from the Charity’s founding roots and our view was we needed to make this significant change to promote our client services.

“We are not a homeless organisation.   Housing advice services, together with our Foodbank, can still be accessed, although we are not in a position to provide accommodation.

“Today the accent is very much concentrating on prevention, and this means that Young People can access our Mental Health support service, Family breakdown, via mediation, and employability schemes”.

In the past two years BYHP has supported over 400 young people each year who have struggled with anxiety and depression caused by COVID, the periods of lockdown and more recently the war in Ukraine and the risk of that conflict escalating.

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Published: 13/05/2022 10:09am by Banbury FM Newsteam

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