Rock Trust - Youth Homeless Charity

Are you free on 20th December?

We need festive volunteers to help with our bucket collections!

Where: Royal Mile & Princes Street
When: Anytime between 10 AM – 4 PM

If you’d like to get involved, email us at fundraising@rocktrust.org and help fund vital support for young people this winter.💙

Just 4 days left to double your impact!

This Christmas, help us bring comfort and hope to young people facing loneliness, fear, and uncertainty.

👉 Donate today via our Big Give page - https://ow.ly/UJ2750XBJPF

Give the gift of Coorie this Christmas 💙

#BigGive2025

Coorie In Ceilidh Join Rock Trust at our Christmas Ceilidh to celebrate the spirit of coorie with music, dancing and laughter, and maybe a mince pie or two!

1 week to go! 🎻

Join us for our Coorie in Ceilidh at The Biscuit Factory:

✅ Live ceilidh band
✅ Drinks & mince pies
✅ A Raffle - top prize: a night at The Hoxton Hotel!

Celebrate, have fun & support young people find warmth and safety this winter.

Grab your tickets: https://ow.ly/XUvQ50XBJvK

Christmas can be a challenging time for many young people and we believe every young person deserves to feel seen and supported.

Thanks to the Big Give Christmas Challenge, every donation between 2–9 December will be doubled, creating an even greater impact.

Give the gift of Coorie 💙

Everyone young person deserves a place to Coorie in.

From 2–9 December, donations to our Coorie in Christmas campaign will be matched £ for £ through Big Give with the support of Dulverton Trust.

Give the gift of Coorie, because nobody should be left out in the cold. 💙

Young people with care experience have access to uni places and while they might be eligible for student halls, if they age out of aftercare support while studying, they can end up leaving university with nowhere to live and no support.

✊ We need to commit to plans for accommodation after uni.

Give the Gift of Coorie - Rock Trust This winter, your Christmas donation can make a difference to the lives of young people facing loneliness, fear and financial hardship.

💻 #BlackFriday is all about buying more stuff.

But thousands of young people in Scotland don’t even have a safe place to sleep.

If you want to reject the chaos, choose impact instead.

🎄 Support our #CoorieIn campaign and help a young person find warmth and safety:
www.rocktrust.org/cooriein/

Next week, every donation to us will be doubled, thanks to Big Give and the Dulverton Trust.

From 2–9 Dec, your gift will go twice as far to give young people warmth, safety and support this winter.

You’ll be able to donate via our Big Give page and make your kindness count twice.💙

Karen's fundraiser for The Rock Trust Help Karen Turner raise money to support The Rock Trust

😍 Huge shout out to our lovely fundraiser Karen Turner, who's going to be running every day this December, rain or shine, to raise money for Rock Trust. 🙌

💝 We're so grateful for all our fundraisers who help make our work possible. Scotland's young people need you!

https://ow.ly/u6g450Xy1Xh

Rock Trust is part of the Estranged Students Working Group and we are proud to support estranged students to remove any barriers they face to educational attainment.

🔎 Find out more about the group and support available here:
1️⃣ https://ow.ly/tshA50XvEX6

2️⃣ https://ow.ly/Y8cu50XvEX7

The #ChristmasChallenge is almost here, and from 2–9 December, your donation to over 1,500 incredible charities can be doubled.

We’re kicking things off with a special message from #PrueLeith, #GaryLineker and #ImeldaStaunton.

Explore the charities now: https://bit.ly/CC25-Social

📝 Ahead of Rachel Reeves' #UKBudget announcement today, we have co-signed a letter to the Chancellor calling for guarantees on the Youth Guarantee scheme.

It's time for meaningful action to ensure young people have fair and equitable access to employment, affordable housing and support.

This winter, thousands of young people in Scotland have nowhere to coorie in. Will you help?

For just £10, you can give a young person without family a Christmas meal and gift.

💙 Help us bring warmth, safety, and hope this season.
👉 Donate today - https://ow.ly/lteG50XxrxY

#EndYouthHomelessness

We’re looking for volunteers to make a real difference this Christmas!

Join us for collections on Royal Mile & Princes Street - Dec 20th, between 10 AM – 4 PM.

Just an hour of your time can help fund vital support for young people facing homelessness.

Get in touch today https://ow.ly/Kp3N50XxlKI

✊ Today is the first day of #ESSW2025, running from 24-30 November.

Young people with no parental support often make it to university but paying for their own home and independent living while studying can be extremely challenging.

They need our support.

🔎 https://ow.ly/Ea6e50XvEMC

This winter, help us make us make a difference to the lives of young people facing loneliness, fear and financial hardship.

Your donation this Christmas, will help young people in Scotland find warmth and safety.

To find out more about the campaign head over to https://ow.ly/H9Kt50XvJb5

Last year in Scotland, more than 9,000 young people experienced homelessness.

Every single one of them faced anxiety, fear, and isolation.

At Rock Trust, we believe no young person should ever have to face homelessness alone.

This Christmas, give the gift of coorie - rocktrust.org/cooriein 💙

https://www.rocktrust.org/cooriein/ This winter, your Christmas donation can make a difference to the lives of young people facing loneliness, fear and financial hardship.

🎄Yesterday we launched our winter fundraising campaign: Coorie In.

A campaign built on a simple idea: that everyone deserves a place where they feel warm, safe, and supported.

Watch the campaign video here: https://shorturl.at/qT73D

This Christmas, give the gift of coorie💙

#CoorieIn

Firewalk Challenge 2025 Walk across a two-metre bed of red-hot embers and help us end youth homelessness in Scotland!

🔥 Ready to walk across fire for a cause?

💪 Take on Rock Trust’s Firewalk challenge, conquer fear in a resilience workshop, and help end youth homelessness in Scotland.

🍕 Free pizza from Pizza Geeks for all brave participants – sign up now!

https://tinyurl.com/mtdw5f4h

More change is needed if we're to be 'world-leading' on housing rights - Rock Trust Shae Moran from Rock Trust gives his take on this year’s Homeless Network Scotland Conference on homelessness prevention.

"Despite all our successes, we are still only just scratching the surface of what still needs to be done."

Read Shea Moran's take on this year's annual Scottish homelessness conference.

#EndingYouthHomelessness @homelessnetwork.scot

www.rocktrust.org/hns-conferen...

A heartfelt thank you to Milton Quilters for donating 20 wonderful handmade quilts to our Youth Housing Hub!

These beautiful creations will bring warmth and comfort to young people as the colder months set in. Your generosity means so much and truly makes a difference.

#EndingYouthHomelessness

🔥 Happy Bonfire Night!

This month the legendary Firewalk returns Nov 20, one of Rock Trust’s most exciting fundraising events this autumn.

Spaces are limited, head to Rocktrust.org to register now and be part of something unforgetable!

#EndingYouthHomelessness

Nearly 40 organisations (and counting) launched their Housing Justice manifesto for the 2026 Holyrood election at the homelessness conference this week. 🧵

Trustee and Company Director - Rock Trust Rock Trust is looking for Trustee and Company Director who can help us expand the range of skills around the table.

📣 We are looking for a Trustee and Company Director to help us expand the range of skills around the table.

🔹 One with third sector, social care/youth work leadership or fundraising experience; and
🔹 One with experience of organisational development and HR.
www.rocktrust.org/vacancy/trus...

Continued investment is vital if we are serious as a nation about #EndingYouthHomelessness.

We welcome Scottish Government's announcement of increased funding, including a £1m investment in DHPs for local authorities, and an extra £100k added to an emergency fund for those at risk of homelessness.

If you share our vision of a Scotland where no young person is ever left behind, join us for our Firewalk, a unique event full of bravery, laughter, and a two-metre bed of red-hot embers.

This is a popular fundraising event, so don't miss out! https://www.rocktrust.org/event/firewalk-edinburgh/

📲 One major improvement on our new website is our unique user pathways. In practice, this means:

😃 Young people can have a relatable, jargon-free experience.

💼 Professionals can dive into the nitty gritty of our service models.

https://www.rocktrust.org/for-professionals/our-service-models/

👋 Our new website includes intuitive enquiry forms that are specific to a wide range of circumstances young people at risk of homelessness might be experiencing.

📲 Explore our new website to discover our new and improved digital services.

https://www.rocktrust.org/find-support/make-an-enquiry/

Same mission - new home. We're marking #WorldHomelessnessDay with the launch of our new website and evolved brand.

Youth homelessness is not inevitable, through bold-thinking, cross-sector collaboration and targeted support, we can end it for good.

Have a look 👉 www.rocktrust.org

You can read about the progress of the pathways in last year's report from Rock Trust and the A Way Home Scotland Coalition.

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