Hollyoaks highlights homelessness
Hollyoaks tackles youth homelessness
Hollyoaks teen George has been facing an uncertain future -
living in a squat, sometimes on the streets, and wondering who
around him he can trust.
This is the hard-hitting storyline the Channel 4 drama has been
running in 2012, helped by Centrepoint, the UK's leading charity
supporting homeless young people.
On Thursday 1 March 2012, the cast of Hollyoaks spent a chilly
night sleeping out on the Hollyoaks set to raise awareness and
vital funds for Centrepoint.
Watch the night's shenanigans in this film:
You can still support your favourite Hollyoaks
character by donating to their Just Giving page here. Help them get
to £10,000 for Centrepoint.
Centrepoint also ran a competition offering one lucky
Hollyoaks fan a tour of the set!!! The winner was announced as
Laura Anne Moore on 14 March.
Laura said: 'I'm really excited and I know
this sounds a bit naff, but it really is a dream come
true!
'The current storyline on Hollyoaks with characters George
and Phoebe gives an incite to what some young people have to live
with thinking hey have no one to turn to. So when Hollyoaks raised
money for Centrepoint I felt I had to do my bit too by making the
donation.
'I've watched Hollyoaks for the past five years every
single day and I'm so excited to get to see the set! I am a trainee
teacher and, when I found out I had won, I was in the staff room
and started screaming! I had said to my friends that if I won
they'd come with me, but never thought I'd actually win!
Amazing!
.
The Hollyoaks story
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George Madison is just a teenage, but he's found himself
homeless, without the support of his family and unsure of where to
turn.
he's just like many of the 1,200 young people Centrepoint
supports every year with a home; getting into education, training
or employment; health services and life skills like cooking and
budgeting.
Here's more about george and some of the friends that help
him:
George
Age: 16
Favourite music: Rihanna and Lady Gaga
Favourite films: High School Musical
Hero: Paris Hilton
George loves fashion - he never has a hair out of place and likes
to wear the latest look. He's gay and talks openly about his
crushes, but never really talks about his true feelings. He has a
wicked sense of humour and dreams about being famous, but he's
insecure. And while he loves his mum and has a good relationship
with her, he finds himself in a difficult and desperate
situation.
Phoebe
Age: 15
Phoebe is streetwise and seems older than her years. Her mum is a
prostitute, so she's had to be tough and look out for herself.
She's slept rough and met George, someone she trusts, in a
squat.
Callum
Age: 16
Favourite music: James Blake, Skream, Magnetic
Man
Favourite TV: Likes The Wire, but would rather
read
Favoutite author: Friedrich Nietzsche, Chuck
Palahniuk
Callum is a man of few words, intense and effortlessly intelligent.
He's the opposite of George, but they strike up a deep
friendship.
Supporting Centrepoint
It's not all about the storyline though! Hollyoaks has supported
Centrepoint in other ways in 2012 too. Follow the links for
more:
There are more photos of both of these events on our Facebook page