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Upgrades will be made to 90 housing trust rooms
Derby Telegraph
|October 01, 2025
A HOUSING trust is helping young people by upgrading the rooms throughout its accommodation.
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Derby-based Derventio Housing Trust, which provides homes to people who would otherwise not have one, is transforming the spaces of the young people it supports by upgrading 90 rooms. Young people will be kitting out their rooms with a range of new soft furnishings such as curtains, rugs, bedding, decorative items including plants, pictures, and mirrors, and electrical goods like lights, kettles, and toasters.
The More Than a Roof:
Personalisation Grant programme, funded by Nationwide, has been made available to the leading charity for homeless young people aged 16-25, Centrepoint's network of partners.
This story is from the October 01, 2025 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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