Podcast feedFinding out about Crisis at Christmas
every year Crisis provides companionship and support for the homeless at Christmas. Lacky talks to Wayne about their experiences of volunteering with Crisis. Alongside shelter and food they offer hairdressing, dentistry, computers and counselling. Wayne explains about the incredibly mood of togetherness that there is at the Crisis at Christmas shelters, as volunteers from all walks of life unite to help those in need. To find out more visit www.crisis.org.uk
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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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Richard on the poison of homelessness
I met Richard at the No Second Night Out hub on Hilldrop Crescent. Of all the many people I have spoken to about the issue of homelessness this year, he was perhaps the most eloquent and thoughtful in what he said. He made it clear how the poison of homelessness is hard to escape.
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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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