Earlier this month the Office for National Statistics reported that there were an estimated 726 deaths of homeless people in England and Wales in 2018 (a 22% increase on 2017). While the mean age at death among the general population was 76 for men and 81 for women, among people who were homeless it was 45 and… Read More One Death is Too Many
BY ANDREW MOODY I was recently remanded to prison and ordered to a secure unit in Glasgow. I was there for a month. Luckily, the unit is the first where I have been treated with respect and care, and I am finally on the correct medication for the Bipolar Disorder I suffer from. It was in here… Read More I’ve Got A Plan
Just over four years ago arable farmer Rob Addicotte and his wife Suzanne decided to convert the old dairy on their farm to house the rural homeless. The dairy house now takes up to seven homeless people at one time from nearby Shepton Mallett, Cheddar, Frome, Wells, Glastonbury and Street. The homeless people who are… Read More Somerset Rural Homelessness
Following 12 months of research with people within and supporting the homeless community, the idea of sleepbus was developed by Simon Rowe, sleepbus Founder. From that research, the issue that kept coming up was, not enough safe places to sleep while working on pathways out of homelessness. What was worse, was allowing people to fall… Read More More Sleep Buses Needed
