A safe place to stay
Charlie became homeless after losing her job and splitting up with her partner. With no income to find a new home, she sofa surfed at friends’ houses with her young daughter, until it became too […]
Rough sleeper now ‘always smiling’
Terry found himself homeless after a relationship breakdown over financial problems. He has also been battling alcohol dependency since leaving the army many years before. He left the family home and his ex-partner got custody […]
Keen cyclist finds work
Gerald had nowhere to go following a relationship breakdown with his uncle, who he has lived with since he was a child. He had no experience of how to live on his own, and can […]
Homelessness: The 21st-century problem
Homelessness, in every sense of the word, is turning out to be the defining problem of the 21st century. Current estimates put the number of homeless people in the world at 100 million. Most have […]
Festival etiquette – to shower or not to shower?
Thousands of happy campers will soon head off to lovely Northamptonshire for Greenbelt 2017. Some festival goers cannot bear the thought of not washing for three days and will either have booked a shower or […]
Securing his future
Joseph came to Mike Jackson House, a scheme for homeless veterans, in May. He was feeling lost following a relationship breakdown and a long period of sofa surfing. Joseph decided to look for a new […]
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