Zoe Wanamaker, Anita Rani and Jo Brand latest stars to support our winter appeal

Their support for our associated entreaty successful concern with Comic Relief comes arsenic starring foundation Centrepoint foretell that astir 23,000 young radical volition look homelessness this winter.

Brand, whose wry stand-up humour makes her a predominant impermanent connected shows similar Have I Got News For You, said: “Without determination harmless to slumber oregon telephone home, the bitter acold of wintertime brings added worries and fears to truthful galore radical who already consciousness similar they are isolated and alone. No ifs, nary buts, we each merit a spot to unrecorded – yet for implicit 300,000 radical successful the UK, the world is an each excessively antithetic story. Together we tin marque a difference. So please, if you’re able, donate contiguous and assistance to connection anticipation and a caller opening to those who are successful urgent request of our support.”

Rani, who was brought up successful Bradford to Indian-born parents, said: “Many of america instrumentality for granted the comfortableness of having a harmless spot to telephone home, but hundreds of thousands of radical successful the UK look the acold wintertime months without a furniture oregon a extortion implicit their heads, unsure of wherever their adjacent repast is coming from. Many volition beryllium radical who person been forced to fly their homes, filled with anxiousness and fear. It’s heart-breaking to deliberation about, which is wherefore I americium asking you to articulation maine successful supporting specified an important appeal.”

Other celebrities to backmost our entreaty truthful acold see singer Rita Ora, Hollywood histrion Michael Sheen and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi.

Wanamaker, the Shakespearean histrion who came to the UK from the US aged 3 erstwhile her father, American histrion Sam Wanamaker, fled to England to flight the anti-community McCarthy witch-hunts, said: “Winter tin beryllium an incredibly pugnacious clip for those facing crises. With obscurity other to turn, assistance from organisations connected the frontline tin mean the satellite of difference. Right now, for individuals and families successful request of support, each donation counts. It tin mean a lukewarm welcome, a harmless spot to stay, and the comfortableness of knowing that they matter, that idiosyncratic cares. So please, if you’re capable to, articulation maine successful supporting this year’s appeal.”

Since we launched 2 weeks ago, we person already raised much than £1 million, including £500,000 from Comic Relief, £460,000 from This Day Foundation and £70,000 from the Standard’s Dispossessed Fund.

£10 could supply a young idiosyncratic question to conscionable a wellbeing mentor and person a blistery meal

£50 could supply question to enactment oregon schoolhouse for a period for an at-risk youth

£150 could refurbish a motorcycle for an big exile giving them state to question independently

£500 could bid 10 radical with acquisition of homelessness to go stateless wellness advocates £1,000 could alteration 1 of our partners to afloat enactment a young idiosyncratic passim the year

To marque a donation visit: comicrelief.com/winter