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…
Package by: Bonny Astor and Freddy Chick
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Inside Spectrum homeless day centre
Spectrum is the homeless day centre in Camden Town. It provides support and direction for homeless people in Camden. Most of all, it acts as a safe space for spending some of the day and a chance to clean and do laundry. I spoke to some of the men using to centre and to the staff who help run it.
Names have been changed to protect the identity of some of the speakers in this piece.
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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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Finding 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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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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