Hope Street's Service Development Manager, Mandy Baxter, says that local businesses have been inspired to get involved and support our plan for a new emergency accommodation facility for homeless youth in Melton.

Woodgrove Shopping Centre's Tree of Hope and Melton Leader's Centre of Hope campaign is continuing to raise awareness of local youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

As the numbers of butterflies of hope on the tree grow in Melton, the call has gone out to local businesses and philanthropic organisations to join the community in supporting homeless youth and their families. Mandy has observed how a local need has attracted a local response:

...the young people we're working with are all someone's daughter or son, someone's niece or nephew ...it's lovely to see a mum or dad, often with their children, come to the tree and put a butterfly on it.

Thank you so much to those who have purchased butterflies and/or made a donation to our Melton First Response campaign thus far. Together, with the support of local organisations, your care and generosity moves us closer to giving homeless and at risk young people a place to live and a future with hope.