During the past three years, Homewards has invested £1.9m across its six locations through the Homewards Fund, with another £3.5m leveraged through grants and private philanthropy, organisers have said.
A further £2.3m worth of surplus goods has been used to furnish Homewards homes.
During his visit to Tate Modern, the Prince viewed a Homewards timeline drawn by artist Myro Doodles, which included a sketch of when he first visited The Passage, a Westminster-based homelessness charity, with his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1993.
The timeline also included William’s recent visit to the same homelessness charity with his eldest son, Prince George, in December. He was invited to sign the mural next to the sketch of him smiling beside his son.
Elsewhere during the visit, he reunited with Aston Villa footballer Tyrone Mings, who as a child lived in a homeless shelter and helped launch Homewards three years ago.
Mings, who plays for the Prince’s favourite team, said: “If you had told us about the impact this would have had three years ago when we were in Sheffield, then we would have been very proud of the work that it’s done.”
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