Podcast feedStreetsfest
Streetsfest is a festival bringing together different grassroots homeless organisations in Finsbury Park. It happens at the end of each summer and last year CCRadio’s Bonny Astor and Freddy Chick went along to cover it. It’s taken a while for the piece to be edited! So let us whisk you back to a warm summer’s evening in Finsbury Park…
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Homelessness: a fair system?
Since one of our colleagues became homeless in Camden, we have been thinking about the issue of homelessness in the borough. In this show Freddy Chick speaks to some of the homeless people in Camden about their experience of the system that is in place to help. We hear from Ian Bangay, head of Camden Safer Streets Team, the street outreach team for Camden Council.
What rules are in place surrounding the system of help and how does it work? Is it fair?
The names of the people interviewed in this piece have been changed.
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Refugee Community Kitchen also helping in the streets of Camden
After volunteering at the camps of Calais and Dunkirk in France, they bring their help to those who have nothing in the streets of Camden. For about nine weeks now, the Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK) has been offering – along with the local NGO Streets Kitchen – hot meals and support to those who most need it. We met Janie Mac, one of the coordinators, on a cold Wednesday night just outside Camden Town tube station where a temporary “canteen” has been set up. Janie says RCK gives people essential support that the government simply fails to provide.
After Camden the organisation wants to expand into other areas of London.
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Homeless brother
Tommy has spent years of his young life on the streets. He knows the deal and what the rules are. He and his brother are both out on the streets together. The are they only family each of them has.
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Homelessness: a veteran sleeping in a royal park
Only today, Prince William launched a new appeal to combat homelessness on behalf of Centrepoint and the Evening Standard. It’s a cause that is close to his heart, and an issue that is spiralling across London.
In the first of a series of interview with with people who are or have been homeless in Camden Freddy Chick spoke to Kieran* – a veteran with PTSD. He hears about how difficult it can be to access help and how it’s not just veterans on the streets – even young mothers and children can end up outside.
(*name has been changed to protect identity)
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