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January / February 2020
Street Food
2 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street Food
WELCOME
Street food
Cover: Thanks to Poppy for this
Streets Kitchen – the ones that give a shift lovely design. See more on Insta:
– are good at smashing urban myths, which
is why there’s an interview with Jon Glackin • @illustrationpoppy
on p14. One flyer from Streets Kitchen points
out that: “More people sleeping rough on our
streets die in the summer than they do in the
winter.” That said, being cold and hungry is
Contents
not living your best life either, so for this issue About us..................................... 4
of the Pavement we’re sharing street food News.......................................5–9
tips. For general help finding food, recovery
help and somewhere to stay please turn SPECIAL
to the centre pages of this mag for the list Street food................. 10 – 11
of services. There’s also a full list on www. Vox pop.................................11
pavement.org.uk. Stay safe. Food fixes................... 12 – 13
Interview.................... 14 – 16
The Pavement team Cartoon.................................17
• www.thepavement.org.uk Mat's column............ 18 – 19
• twitter.com/thepavementmag Modern day slavery.20 – 21
• facebook.com/thepavementmag Universal credit............22 – 23
• instagram.com/pavement_magazine Opinion...........................24 – 25
Design.............................26 – 27
London/Scotland Issue 124 January–February 2020 Health..............................28 – 29
Published by the Pavement Humour.................................30
Registered Charity Number 1110656 Your rights............................... 31
web@thepavement.org.uk
What I'm thinking.............31
Editor: Nicola Baird nicola@thepavement.org.uk
Web editor: Kieran Hughes web@thepavement.org.uk The List (centre)................ A–P
Design: Marco Biagini scotland@thepavement.org.uk
Writers/Researchers: Arome Agamah, Mat Amp, Marco
Biagini, Tristan Brookes, David Brown, Jake Cudsi, Alasdair The Pavement is written for your
Dixon, Jack Hanington, Jemel Geraghty, David Holmes- entertainment and information.
Brown, Kieran Hughes, Ian Kalman, David Lawrence, Whilst every effort is made
McGinlay, Jacqueline Messih, James Quigley, Chris Sampson to ensure the accuracy of the
Cartoons: Ken Pyne publication, the Pavement cannot
be held responsible for the use of
London Co-ordinator: Mat Amp the information it publishes. The
london@thepavement.org.uk, tel: 07595 602 324 contents should not be relied upon
Scotland Co-ordinator Marco Biagini as a substitute for medical, legal or
scotland@thepavement.org.uk, text: 07701 093 643 professional advice. The Pavement is
a forum for discussion, and opinions
The Pavement (print) ISSN 1757-0476 expressed in the paper are not
The Pavement (online) ISSN 1757-0484 necessarily those of the Pavement.
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 3
ABOUT US
Welcome to the Pavement: a
magazine for homeless readers
We’re a small charity, founded
in London in 2005, producing a
pocket-sized mag full of news, views
and cartoons. Right in the centre
is a list of places to help you. Each
issue we print 8,500 FREE bimonthly
magazines written for homeless
and insecurely-housed readers in
London and Scotland. You can find
the Pavement at hostels, day centres,
homeless surgeries, soup-runs and
libraries.
We believe that sleeping rough is
physically and mentally harmful, but
reject the view that a one-size-fits-all
approach to getting people off the
streets works.
We are always looking
for volunteer journalists and
photographers to create exclusive
content that’s written with our
Service of Commemoration: This readers in mind. We particularly
is me from Choir With No Name welcome those who’ve been
and I see a light at the end of the homeless. A big thank you our
tunnel sung by Streetwise Opera readers and writers.
helped a packed St Martin-in-the- • www.thepavement.org.uk
Fields say goodbye to all those who
died homeless in central London
over the past year. The invitation Fundraisers needed
depicted Jesus in a sleeping bag and
that theme was used to decorate Can you fundraise or donate so we
the alter. Movingly, this included can keep providing the Pavement
suitcases and also the tent used by free to homeless people? A magazine
that helps in moments of crisis, as
Mark Borrett (aka Sparky) who died
well as giving the info people may
sleeping rough in 2019. In all 126 need to move on. Ideas please to:
names were read out. Many tears
fell. © Matt Chung • nicola@thepavement.org.uk
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NEWS
Written by Jake Cudsi
Legal challenge
A new year, and new hope that the
draconian Public Spaces Protection
Order (PSPO) will be reformed, or
even scrapped. Under the PSPO
police can fine anybody found
blocking doorways, asking for money
or generally loitering. Arguing this
unfairly targets homeless people,
Sarah Ward, who lives in Poole,
reached a fundraising target for
legal costs in November, and will
take Bournemouth, Christchurch
and Poole council to the High Court
in 2020. The human rights group
Liberty welcomed Ward’s action,
with Lara ten Caten, a lawyer for
the group, quoted in the Guardian
saying: “PSPOs are blunt powers that
are being systematically misused to
criminalise homeless people across
the country.”
• Happened to you? Get help from
Liberty advice line 0845 123 Crisis poet in residence:
2307 or 020 3145 0461 Neanderthal Bard, Stefan Gambrell,
sharing poems at Crisis’ busy Finsbury
Festive fallout Park shop © Crisis
Last November, a report by the youth the winter and many more will be
homelessness charity Centrepoint hidden homeless, reliant on sofa
estimated that 22,250 young people surfing to get a bed for the night.
in England would spend the festive Centrepoint arrived at the estimate
period sleeping rough or sofa surfing. by analysing data provided by 248
No place to stay: Experiences of local authorities in England.
youth homelessness warned that • Read the report:
many 16 to 25-year-olds will find https://centrepoint.org.uk/
themselves sleeping rough over media/3776/xmasreport.pdf
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 5
NEWS
Unsafe haven
Vulnerable homeless people in Independent saying the money had
London are being duped by the been “wasted”.
Home Office as immigration
enforcement ramps up deportation, Election appeal
finds the Guardian in October. It
revealed that the Home Office was In an open letter to the country’s
running sessions at safe havens political leaders before December’s
intended to gather information on general election, Greater
attendees, in the hope of removing Manchester mayor Andy Burnham
those without valid immigration called for a fresh approach to
status. Homeless people attending tackling rising homelessness.
the sessions are not told that the Burnham asked for a freeze on
Home Office is involved. In fact, they the Local Housing Allowance, and
are informed attendance could help also wants no-fault evictions to be
regularise their immigration status. binned and a nationwide roll-out
The Salvation Army, Sikh gurdwara of Manchester’s A Bed Every Night
and a Chinese community centre scheme.
have been caught out offering their
space to immigration enforcement. Housing last
Billions wasted The West Midlands' Housing First
initiative turned a year old suffering
Councils continue to rely from teething problems. Of the
on emergency temporary seven local authorities involved
accommodation for homeless in the scheme Birmingham,
people, that is routinely found unfit Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Solihull
for purpose. In the 12 months to and Coventry all failed to reach their
March 2019, councils in England targets of housing homeless people.
spent £1.1 billion on B&Bs, hostels Overall the councils hoped to house
and other temporary shelter, 675 homeless people under Housing
representing a 78% rise in spending First by 2021. But only 81 people had
over the preceding five years. been housed in the year leading up
This tactless approach to tackling to November 2019, equivalent to a
homelessness can place families in lowly 36% of the targeted 225 per
dangerous emergency B&Bs, which year. Wolverhampton council had
are of little benefit to anybody other aimed to house 18 people in the
than private landlords’ wallets. Polly scheme’s first year, but managed
Neate, chief executive of homeless to house nobody, according to the
charity Shelter, was quoted by the Birmingham Mail.
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NEWS
Young artists’ hotel show: Supercity Aparthotels has launched Art House in support
of formerly homeless artists connected to creative homeless youth charity Accumulate.
From left to right: Lisalouise Macgregor, Alexis Burton (CEO Supercity), Sam Adesanya,
Max Sita-Mbele, Kat Jagne, Marice Cumber (Director Accumulate), Nikolett Eszes, Oliver
Oliver-Morrison and Aaron Powell. The Supercity Art House is open until 6 Jan with art on
sale at supercityuk.com. © Sam Roberts
You're banned
Space for Sistaaz
The city of sin – that’s Las Vegas
In Cape Town, South Africa, a – supposedly welcomes sinners
group of 40 homeless people are and saints alike. Everybody’s
fighting for equality, and a place welcome and anything goes, or so
to stay. Sistaaz, a collective of the marketing people say. As for
transgender homeless people, have people sleeping rough? No thanks.
called for a safer space to stay, as Las Vegas has banned homeless
they are currently assigned to male people from sleeping on the street.
dormitories in shelters. A number of According to the Washington Post,
the community have been working in the law is designed to help maintain
prostitution to raise money. Lameez the city’s image as an attractive
Oliver, a member of Sistaaz, told tourist destination.
Africanews that the group “just want
our own accommodation for us as a • LGBTIQ+ Homeless help from
home, as a family.” www.lgbtiqoutside.org
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 7
NEWS
Updated guidance
A new guidance on temporary
accommodation standards in
17 times people
staying at
Glasgow’s Winter
Night Shelter (open for four
Scotland has come into effect. months) were revived with
STV reports local authorities are the overdose prevention drug
now obliged to provide safe, better Naloxone during 2018.
quality accommodation to homeless Source: Scotsman (3/12/19).
people until a more permanent
arrangement is organised. The people died from drug-
1187
announcement included details of related deaths in 2018,
a £50m action plan designed to a quarter of them (280)
eventually end homelessness in the in Glasgow. One in six
country. The changes arrive courtesy people who died were
of updates to the Homelessness homeless.
Code of Guidance. Housing Minister Source: Herald (3/12/19)
Kevin Stewart hopes that: “these
changes will allow more people to
benefit from the support available.” Mixed signals
Glaswegians are getting mixed
Lawmakers signals. Glasgow City Council
(GCC) has denied a Shelter
Shelter Scotland launched a Scotland estimate that 47 people
campaign late last year to introduce died sleeping rough in 2018.
a new law: the right to adequate However, GCC was reluctant to
housing. Volunteers were on the put a number on how many they
streets of Edinburgh hunting think did die, eventually saying:
signatures in the run up to Christmas, “45 people recorded as homeless
as Shelter sought support for the died.” Regrettably, this skirmish
campaign. Shelter wants the right over differing estimates is just
to a home to be included in Human one battle in an escalating war.
Rights legislation, with new laws As the Pavement 123 noted (Nov/
to protect these rights. According Dec 2019), GCC are being sued
to the Edinburgh Evening News, a by Shelter Scotland for unlawfully
YouGov survey showed support for denying homeless people temporary
the campaign, with 88% of those accommodation. Now Private Eye
surveyed agreeing everyone in reports Glasgow accounted for 95%
Scotland deserved the right to safe of the 3,500 such cases in Scotland
and affordable housing. in 2017-18.
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Mad riot
The Political History of Smack and
Crack – a play – is now on tour
with dates at Bristol, Manchester
(27-28 Jan), Birmingham, Sheffield,
Canterbury, Newcastle, Doncaster
and at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre (20–
22 Feb). This angry, funny love song
Beds © Glasgow City Mission
is inspired by writer, Ed Edwards’ own
experience in jail and rehab.
Freezing change • @smackandcrack
Intense pressure on Glasgow’s Winter art: Shelter charity shop on
homelessness services resulted in Great Western Road, Glasgow, ran a
the Glasgow City Mission opening photography exhibition in December.
the doors to its Winter Shelter three The photos were taken by people who
days earlier than planned, writes Jack had experienced homelessness and
Hanington. Glasgow has only one mental ill health. They include images
mainstream winter shelter, run by portraying the difficulty homeless people
Glasgow City Mission, on behalf of face accessing mental health care, and
the council and other homelessness were used in a research programme by
services. Following the city council’s Shelter Scotland, with a report due out
transfer of funding to the Housing in March 2020. A booklet containing
First plan, homelessness services the images was part-funded by NHS
lost £3 million of council funding, Health Scotland, and will be used to
equivalent to 99 temporary beds. teach clinical staff working with people
As November temperatures affected by these issues. © Marco Biagini
dropped to as low as -6C, the
decision was taken to open the
shelter on 28 November, offering
emergency accommodation at the
Lodging House Mission on 35 East
Campbell Street until 31 March
2020.
• Call: 0141 552 0285
Turn to pages A – P For
the list of services
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 9
STREET FOOD SPECIAL
Food for free
This food issue goes back to the Pavement’s roots as the mag
was set up to help homeless people have a list of where to find
food, shelter and help for any addictions
Eat up: For starters, if you’re hungry ready to eat and cheaper than
then turn to the list in the centre of fresh.
this magazine and look for suppliers • Tinned sweet corn, mushy peas,
of food. beans and lentils are staples that
can be used to make a healthy
Watch your caffeine: “Choose hot meal. Eat cold or hot.
chocolate, decaf coffee/tea. They’ll • Tinned sardines contain almost a
warm you up, but you won’t be so whole day’s recommended intake
alert that you don’t get any sleep. of vitamins D and B12.
Herbal hot drinks – peppermint and • Poundland is where to buy a cheap
fruit tea – can be a good switch. tin opener.
When someone offers to get you
something, you could ask for an Make pasta in an electric kettle:
oat bar, porridge pot or fruit which Put in a handful of dried pasta, cover
is filling, but has a slow release of generously with water (eg, one cup
energy which is more healthy,” says of pasta, two cups of water). Switch
Oliver Hall, Mental Health Project the kettle on until the water boils. Stir
manager running Groundswell’s down with a wooden spoon. When
Building Resilience Group. “Don’t the water tries to boil over, switch
run off carbohydrates and sugar off the kettle, stir. Switch kettle back
because the side-effects of living on on and repeat the boiling/stirring
fried chicken, burger and chips has a three or four times. Drain and put
long-term bad effect on your arteries into a bowl. You can heat up sweet
and heart.” corn in the kettle too – and even jars
of pasta sauce. Kettles boil so fast
Food banks: Jack Monroe’s book, that this is a speedy way to get a hot
Tin Can Cook, aims to help people meal.
using food banks create tasty meals
as there are more than 400 food Nature’s bounty: Richard Mabey’s
banks sharing 1.5 million food Food for Free lists 100 edible plants.
parcels a year. Find loads of cheap Use gloves to pick early spring
meal ideas at www.jackmonroe.com, nettles, then wilt off their sting in hot
including: water and add as iron-rich addition
• Tinned carrots and potatoes are to soups and stews, or use as tea. In
10 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodVOX POP
What do you want?
Asks James Quigley
Q: How many hot drinks do you
reckon you are offered in a day?
Julia: “Around 10. A lot of people
give me coffee between 6am and
8am when they're on their way to
work.”
Q: What do you mostly eat on the
streets?
Mary: “Ham and cheese toasties,
especially when I'm sat outside a
Pret.”
Q: What food would you most like
to eat?
Sean: “I'd love some gammon or a
slice of steak, maybe a bit of veal if I
was getting fancy.”
Tasty art: the Pavement reader Peter
Gregory says: “We have been making
Q: Are you getting enough food?
donations to the Red Bag Company which
gives out food in Birmingham. We wanted Sam: “I've lost about a stone in the
to do what we could for your magazine last couple of months.”
and the work you do also. We want to do
anything we can to help homeless charities Q: Do you find it easy to get water
as we are using food banks and without to drink?
them, probably wouldn't manage.”
Andrew: “Water's not a problem,
• www.redbagco.bigcartel.com
I can go to cafes, or to the train
station, where I fill up my big bottle
July and August enjoy blackberries which I always carry around.”
straight from the bush in city parks.
Pick edible herbs from front gardens Q: What's your tip for getting
and public green spaces. Lemon food around here?
verbena, mint and goosegrass all add
Anne: “Sit outside a food place!”
flavour to tap water.
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 11SPECIAL
Food fixes
Crafty tricks to keep you
healthy and full, from McGinlay
Trick 1:
Staying in tempo accommo
(temporary accommodation)? Have
access to a cooker? Do you receive
regular donated sandwiches? Wanna
turn those sarnies into a meal? Well
you can. You need:
• 3 to 4 sandwiches with lots of
fillings.
• Some form of ‘base’ ingredient,
like rice, pasta or potatoes.
(Tesco’s own brand spaghetti is
20p).
• Some form of sauce to make the
meal stretch. (Tesco’s own brand © David Holmes-Brown
pasta sauce is 45p, I promise I’m
not a promoter for Tesco!). I once made an Ocean Pie using
sandwiches – 2 tuna, 1 salmon and
Method: 1 prawn. I bought some potatoes
and mashed them with butter, milk,
1. Divide the fillings into separate salt and pepper. I mixed all the fish
bowls, tomatoes on their own, together in a creamy mushroom
chicken on its own, etc. sauce I made with single cream,
2. Prepare base ingredient: boil rice, mushrooms and parsley. I placed
pasta or potatoes until cooked. the fish sauce into a glass oven dish
and smoothed the mash over the
3. Mix the fillings with your sauce top and cooked until the mash was
how you like it, depending on what slightly crispy; then sprinkled grated
you’re making. cheese on top and melted it before
serving. It was delicious, fast to
4. The larger the meal, the more
make and cheap enough to get extra
fillings you will need.
ingredients for under a fiver.
12 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodIn the kitchen with David Holmes-Brown: “I am a reportage artist living
in Devon. I have been drawing people who are homeless and vulnerable in
and around Torbay for a few years now. This was drawn at The Haven, a tiny
charity in Paignton open three mornings a week. See www.haventorbay.co.uk
I understand even £5 sounds like a your cup you will get it for 49p. And
lot when you have nothing. In the it is part of Pret’s policy for all staff
last issue of the Pavement (#123), I members to give away 10 coffees
mentioned I was staying in a hellish every day. Yep, so if you’re a friendly
hostel and made friends with T, regular, if you have been waiting in
remember? It was him who showed the queue for over two minutes or if
me this trick. There was a time when you flirt with them… YES, it’s on the
I only had a few pounds, so I teamed house and it’s their policy.
up with T and another resident and
we all split the fiver between us. We Trick 4:
were all skint and very hungry so Anyone who has experienced
problem solved. homelessness in London knows food
resources at times might not be
Trick 2: close by, so travel is needed. Now
You know those MASSIVE outdoor some can’t afford Oyster fares, don’t
food bins outside the supermarket, have a bike or may have medical
usually located behind the building? needs making it tricky to travel
The ones where the shop throws long distances. Did you know there
away its perfectly good food because are two types of Freedom Pass?
they can’t sell it the next day, or the There are passes for seniors (65+)
package is damaged but the food’s and passes for those with medical
still fine? Well, most hardware stores needs. If you have any long-term
sell a cheap hard plastic, T-shaped health need that effects your daily
key that has a hollow hexagon base communication, co-ordination or
which open up those bins. Ta-da, mobility, you can apply. Get a letter
access to food. from your GP, take it to the Mobility
Team at your local town hall, with
Trick 3: two passport photos and your pass
Anyone who’s lived in a hostel will should be posted to you within seven
know our friends at Pret donate food working days making London your
on a daily basis. But did you know oyster, without the Oyster.
if you go in with your own refillable • Instagram @mc.ginlay for
cup, you get 50p off any hot drink? poetry, illustrations & crafts.
Their cheapest coffee is 99p but with
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 13INTERVIEW
Eat up In a nutshell
Jaqueline Messih meets Jon • Streets Kitchen serves on
Glackin from Streets Kitchen, average 1,000 people a week
a grassroots solidarity group around London. It relies solely on
that aims to provide food, volunteers.
clothing and information • Founding member Jon Glackin’s
through daily outreaches catchphrase is “solidarity not
across London. At the heart of charity”. Anyone is welcome.
this operation is people and • “Research has been done on the
food correct food to give to people
who are living on the streets.
Jon Glackin is a founding member It needs to contain more fats,
of Streets Kitchen. He believes vitamins and be food with high
food is a basic human right and energy particularly if you are
Streets Kitchen fulfils that right. sleeping in the cold or walking
"Food is vital. The clue’s in the around a lot just burning
name, we try to bring the kitchen energy,” says Jon.
to the streets, it’s a simple service: • Hungry in Edinburgh and
everybody has the right to eat,” Glasgow? Social Bite, a social
says Jon. Streets Kitchen does not enterprise set up in 2012, gives
only serve the homeless but also away food, and runs an academy
those on low incomes. The food is employing people affected by
cooked by volunteers and is generally homelessness (32 in 2018) and
vegetarian and full of nutrition. To supports homeless people to
help people with sore teeth nothing volunteer (45 in 2018).
is served that is too hard and there’s
the option of hot or cold food. Also See www.social-bite.co.uk
on offer are fruit, sweet treats, teas
and coffees, but most importantly
comes advice and conversation, the hot food and drinks creates a
establishing a sense of community warming feeling, kissing the cold air
and rapport. and bringing relief to worn cheeks.
On a typical outreach you will With so many people using the
observe food as the centre of service, it begs the question whether
attention. Some people gather homeless people have enough
around the table and some join access to food? Jon notes: “Most
conversations, dispersed into small other services are indoors and have
groups. The heat which radiates from certain rules and regulations, so
14 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodStreets Kitchen founder Jon Glackin: “We operate on the streets and we are
not exclusive, everybody can use our services.” @ Nina B/Snack Productions
some people mistrust it and come to give to Refugee Community Kitchen
us instead. We operate on the streets and there are a lot of food waste
and we are not exclusive, everybody groups now because people are
can use our services. We also beginning to recognise how much
signpost to other essential services.” food is being wasted. If food waste
Jon adds that: “Food banks sadly were a country, it would be the third
are an essential part of life now. Ten largest polluter in the world!”
years ago there weren’t so many Food banks also lack in nutritional
but now it’s the fastest growing foods and as a result Jon finds food
industry in the UK. But food bank poverty to be an issue, but not in the
food is meant to be cooked at home; sense you might think. There’s “good
spaghetti, potatoes, canned beans, food poverty," Jon says. “We get lots
so that’s a problem for the homeless of pasta, potatoes and canned or
community.” packet food, but in terms of fresh
Streets Kitchen operates on vegetables that’s lacking. This is why
minimal spending by using food we’ve set up some garden projects.
destined for waste: “There’s plenty In Islington we have a number of
of food being wasted and we plots that grow fresh veg for us.”
sometimes access that food before Jon acknowledges there is a link
it’s thrown out. We get food from between food and death: “Homeless
Nando’s, City Harvest, Felix Project people die much younger than... u
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 15Evening meal from Streets
Kitchen @ Jacqueline Messih
use it because they are hungry. The
only issue Jon sees for the future
is that licences may need to be
obtained in order to operate and
serve food on the streets. In places
like Westminster, there’s already
an attack on food runs with talk
of licenses – essentially making it
harder to run services.
Jon stresses that in today’s world
everybody seems to be struggling,
not just the homeless community. “I
created Streets Kitchen, to change
u ... people who are housed, there the terminology and narrative, to
can be almost 30-years difference. make it more inclusive. It’s not just
That is due to lack of somewhere homeless people we serve, we serve
to live, lack of a healthy diet, poor people in hostels, people newly
health and bad habits that one could accommodated, people who have
develop living on the streets, so a lost their benefits or have been
good diet is vital.” sanctioned. We meet hundreds of
Streets Kitchen is a model that can hungry people every day.”
be replicated anywhere but people • See www.streetskitchen.org
Hungry in London?
Here’s where to find Streets Kitchen:
Monday: Tooting Broadway, outside the market, 7.30pm
Tuesday: Clapham Common, next to Joe’s Pizza, 7.30pm
Wednesday: Camden Town, next to Camden tube station, 7.30pm
Thursday: Hackney, outside Hackney Central Library, 8pm
Friday: Camden Town, next to Camden tube station, 7.30pm
Friday: Kilburn, near Kilburn High Road tube station,7.30pm
Friday: Dalston, opposite Dalston Kingsland tube station, 8pm
Saturday: Dalston, opposite Dalston Kingsland tube station, 8pm
Sunday: Camden Town, next to Camden tube station, 7.30pm
Sunday: Jamming For Change, by Shoreditch High St station, 4-6pm
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MAT'S COLUMN
Irony deficiency
By Deputy Editor Mat Amp
We all have those particular things
that we swear we’ll never do. If it
had occurred to me 10 years ago, I
might well have declared with total
confidence that: “I’d never steal 100
quids’ worth of meat a day from
Morrisons’ on the Seven Sisters Road,
sell it to local pensioners in the pub
across the street for 60% of face
value and spend the winnings on
crack and smack.” WHOOPS... Revolution: art from plastic waste (cutlery
With a habit to maintain and and cups) made by Teboho Phakoe who
my options seriously limited by used the Crash Pad, a shelter for 18-25 year
homelessness, the choice was to olds, open each winter. For info call
shoplift or beg. And it wasn’t the 020 7700 2498. © Pilion Trust
cruel or up-tight members of the
public that put me off, but rather over Nibblesnipers Lane and into the
the looks of pity from the kind and Hairy Lemon public house opposite
well-meaning. Those looks sliced me (names changed to protect the
in half. landlord, blah, blah, blah).
So, while I would rather not put my The guv would let us sell our
hand out if at all possible, it certainly ill-gotten packets of flesh to his
isn’t a judgement thing. That would distinguished clientele on the proviso
be ever-so-slightly hypocritical when that we took our dodgy meat round
you consider that I didn’t blink when the back door (nudge, nudge, wink,
it came to taking part in organised, wink). The Hairy Lemon’s punters
turbo-charged shoplifting sprees to tend to be near the top of life’s
fund my habit. experience division and for them
At one point we had it down to a few squid saved on the old beef
a fine-tuned military operation. steaks means more amber nectar
Someone would carry the rucksack in the jug. It was a triple win with
while the other two of us would happy punters, a happy landlord and
pop security tags and load up with a super chuffed trio of sated junkies.
choice cuts. We would be on our way Of course, nothing lasts forever.
before the cameras swept round, Eventually the keepers of the great
marching out of the door, straight meat river twigged to the leak in the
18 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodIn a nutshell
• It can be easy to forget that
stealing meat from a supermarket
and selling it to pensioners – in
order to grease the wheels of a
heroin habit – can seem shocking to
a majority of the general public.
• No matter how open-minded we
may be, we’re all shocked by certain
things that other people do. It’s
worth bearing in mind that we
really don’t know if we’d do those
things much differently ourselves,
until we’ve been tested by life,
dam, ‘beefing’ up security, which rather than theoretical supposition
wound up our little project. and all the pontificating bollox that
On top of that I’d been struggling goes with that.
with my health for months. My spirit
felt like it had melted into a lethargic • Even if we are sure that we would
puddle of spent energy and when I never indulge in certain behaviours,
looked around for my get up and go, that shouldn’t inform the way we
it soon became evident that it had treat those that do.
already fucked off.
• We all make mistakes, but it’s just
You can imagine the look on my
a better world to live in if we all get
face when the doc diagnosed me
busy supporting each other to move
with anaemia, a shortage of red
forward, rather than using the big
blood cells often caused by a lack of
boot of judgement to kick people
red meat.
while they are down.
“There’s no deficiency of irony
in my iron deficiency,” I quipped • When I found myself homeless
glibly to the doc, but the joke fell a my boots were ill-fitting and falling
bit flat when I explained where the to bits, but it wasn’t until a few
irony came from. It wasn’t so much empathetic souls took a walk in
that I’d stolen thousands of pounds them that I knew where to tread
worth of meat that saw him instantly next. A few people decided to take a
direct me down his B1470 humour punt on me and gave me their trust,
bypass, more the fact that I’d and that encouraged me to try and
managed to eat precisely none of it. do the same for others. And thus far,
it’s worked.
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 19ALERT
Too good Turn to pages
A – P For the list
to be true?
of services
If you know an employer is dodgy, please speak out. We have to
stop these modern slave traders exploiting homeless people
Stop the Traffik’s job is to prevent events like soup kitchens because
human trafficking worldwide. The they are regular and a place people
campaigners asked 180 people who congregate,” says Caroline Barnard
were rough sleeping, homeless or who is communications officer at
using homeless services in Greater the Church of England. “The crisis in
Manchester about exploitation. housing is so big that housing and
Shockingly the report, published homelessness staff and volunteers
in November 2019, reveals how are not always looking out for more
almost 30% of the respondents problems, that’s why modern slavery
had been offered drugs, alcohol, is not on their radar.”
food or accommodation for work, in So, when someone drives up with a
lieu of a real wage. Stop the Traffik van offering casual labour, they may
found that young people, women not be telling it straight. “Modern
and immigrants experiencing day slavery is about people being
homelessness were most vulnerable exploited and abused. If the offer
to exploitation. And it might happen of a job sounds dodgy it probably
to you: almost a quarter (24%) of is. Don’t accept jobs which come
those surveyed said they had not with accommodation and alcohol or
been paid promised wages, while a drugs, or promises of what you need,
further 17% had known someone to as they will never materialise. The
go missing after accepting an offer accommodation will be a caravan
of work. or a tent and there will be no pay,”
This is a nationwide problem and warns Barnard.
homeless people are often these
exploiters’ targets. Over the past two • More about what’s happening in
years the Modern Slavery Helpline Manchester:
has had reports of 353 people who www.stopthetraffik.org/
were homeless before, during or after manchester-homelessness-
being exploited. exploitation-report/
“We’ve seen modern slavery
recruitment happen at church
20 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street Foodplease help me
CALL THE MODERN SLAVERY
HELPLINE 08000 121 700
OR CONTACT:-
NAME: the night shelter
NUMBER:
In a nutshell
The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was more than 200 years ago, in 1807.
Modern day slavery is typically a hidden crime, but sharing info can stop
people exploiting others here in the UK and abroad.
• If you recognise a dodgy employer • Staff, volunteers and homeless
tell people at that centre. This people all need to be alert. When
stopped one gang in Southend, someone drives up with a van,
Essex recruiting at a church soup they may not be offering casual
run. labour.
• Good news: in Greater Manchester • Need help?
homeless people looked out Call the Modern Slavery Helpline
for others: 22% had warned on 08000 121 700 for support
someone, or been warned, not to and advice. Or visit:
take a job offer from a particular www.theclewerinitiative.org.
group or people. If it’s an emergency then call 999.
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 21IN THE KNOW
Help with Universal Credit
Stuck by a UC problem? Ian Kalman offers solutions
Q: How do I start? appeals are won. If this happens to
For a short time Citizens Advice you, the first step is get some advice.
Bureau will help anyone in England If you do not have a key worker
and Wales make an application for contact either CAB or a local law
Universal Credit. This ends in April centre. If you cannot get help do
2020. CAB will help anyone who has not give up. These are the steps you
to apply, from the initial application should take:
until they get their first payment. 1. Obtain the form to state you are
CAB works in some job centres but appealing against the decision
this may only be twice a week for and send that in.
a few hours. Or you can try CAB’s 2. If you can get someone who will
Help to Claim phone line. England speak for you at the tribunal,
tel: 0800 144 8444, Scotland tel: their name should be put on the
0800 023 2581. Also see www. form. But if you cannot think of
citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/ someone do not panic. There are
universal-credit/ still steps you can take.
3. Once you know the appeal date,
Q: How do I budget? start compiling evidence. This
One bit of good news if you are can be in the form of letters
paying back an advance (called a from doctors you have, plus
hardship loan) the deduction was prescriptions you have. Try to
40% of your monthly benefit. From obtain a letter from the doctor
October it changed to 30%. who can state why you are not
available for work.
Q: What if there is a problem with 4. You should think about the
my claim? opening statement you will make,
Wrong decision: There are two write it down and look at it every
problems you may face – let us day until you are in front of the
take the easier one first. You might decision makers. You might find
find you are shifted from ESA to you know it by heart, but still bring
JSA because a decision maker has it with you. And show it to let the
decided you are fit for work. I know people know you have thought
of two people this happened to and about this. Never lose your temper:
they both fought this and won. This always remember they are just
happens a lot. More than half of following the system.
22 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodThe foodbank at Ringcross
Community Centre offers fresh fruit
and veg, most do not © Pavement
Good news: The Government’s Tampon
Sanctioned: If you are sanctioned Tax has been used by 29 charities working
that will mean your money is with women who are homeless or at risk
stopped. Appealing against a of homelessness. A total of £1.85 million
sanction is more difficult but if you was distributed by Homeless Link via their
feel you have a strong case you still Ending Women’s Homelessness Grants
have a right to challenge it, but first: programme and informed by the report
1. If you have housing benefit Promising practice from the Frontline
contact the council and inform (2018) which recommended taking a
them. more gendered approach to services.
2. Appeal against it but remember More than 600 women in England
the sanction is because either you sleep on the streets each night, many
have not done something that is escaping domestic violence will use public
on your agreement or you have transport, A&E or sofa surf with family and
been late for an appointment. friends. Pic shows campaign work from
Saying “I was not well that day,” the Bloody Good Period, which shares free
will not be enough, so if you are pads with refugee and asylum seekers.
ill, or running late, contact your Ask for free period products at a drop-in,
advisor and inform them. library or food bank. © Gabby Edlin/
Bloody Good Period
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 23OPINION
Anyone in? Line up: Screenshot from the film
Changed Times showing "meanwhile
use" of The Glass House, a former factory
The curse of empty homes by on Hornsey Road. Change was facilitated
David Lawrence by Streets Kitchen, Islington Council and
others, during winter 2018–19
I am often seeing empty homes © Nina B / Snack Productions
when I am on my travels. I get so
angry with many people sleeping every council in the country. Housing
rough and the massive shortage of First is a new idea which came from
Social Housing that I feel the need Finland. It is for rough sleepers who
to do something. After I calm down, have complex needs and are not
I realise that on some occasions suited to hostels. Instead they are
the properties are in need of repair moved into their own home and the
or decoration. I have spent the last service provider provides support so
seven years volunteering in the the client is capable of paying the
homeless sector, and was homeless rent and make changes to their life.
from October 2008 for five years. I If every Council was obliged
have over this period of time tried to by law to provide a Housing First
work out effective ways to solve this service this would help to reduce the
problem. I have asked many people number of rough sleepers. Maybe
who have experienced homelessness empty homes could be used in this
about it, and the first thing a lot of way as they have a shortage of
people said was “Why leave them social housing? I am pleased by the
empty? Does anyone care? What fact Council Tax on empty homes
can be done?” So I am not the only has increased because this will play a
one who feels this way and that part in encouraging selfish owners to
encourages me to find solutions. let them out.
The main problem is some rough I hope that after the December
sleepers, or other homeless people, election there will be more effort in
often believe that there is no housing solving the curse of rough sleeping.
for them so they carry on without Getting empty homes back into use
changing their ways. This hits the is a start. I intend to bring this issue
economy as crime increases and up on a national scale and hope
they will not work. That’s a problem that many people will join me in
because it is essential that everyone campaigning for an end to this blight
feels that there is hope so everyone on our society. The more people who
contributes to society. take part and show their support
Some councils offer a Housing would encourage Parliament to do
First system. This is a very good idea something about this problem.
and I hope will soon be offered by
24 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodWays to convert empty buildings
Here are a few ideas for anyone
involved with a community-led
building project, put together One size rarely fits all
by Architecture for Humanity’s Avoid having preconceived ideas.
Arome Agamah & Alasdair Dixon Also understand that every situation
is a bit different; what works in one
Engage with your neighbours place, won’t automatically work
Getting lots of people involved from everywhere else.
the very start can go a long way in
building trust and enthusiasm for Have a good working relationship
a project. The more interactive the with local people
better, so things like exhibitions, Keep local authority housing teams
co-design days and brief workshops and homelessness charities in the
may be good ways to go. loop. Always try to develop projects
with their input.
Ask for help
Converting or adapting existing Think carefully about the location
buildings can be a challenging Ensure that location is appropriate,
exercise. Older buildings in particular sufficiently serviced and is actually
have a knack for hidden surprises available. Be clear on the situation
that can affect plans. Having an with ownerships, leaseholds.
expert to help you get your head Discussing “meanwhile use” with
round the various regulations and site owners can also be an option
planning policies can be a massive for spaces that are only temporarily
bonus. vacant.
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 25DESIGN
Great places
Architecture for Humanity
UK’s Arome Agamah &
Alasdair Dixon discuss ways to
adapt buildings for people who
are homeless
We’re a small charity passionate
about designing great places for
people from all walks of life. Over
the years we’ve worked with Crisis
on their Christmas reception spaces,
with Food for All on their kitchen in
Hackney and on the Remakery in
Brixton where we helped convert an
underused space into a community Come on in: Micro homes for people
hub. who have been homeless
We know that housing and © Peter Barber Architects
homelessness is a complex issue that
needs addressing with big moves and
serious political will. As architects Kentish town. These cottages were
we are best placed to address designed with Camden council and
more immediate concerns such as will be opening in 2019.
ensuring that a building is safe and • www.peterbarberarchitects.com/
secure for vulnerable people. While holmes-road-studios
it is not the entire solution, provision
of temporary housing is also a valid Architecture for Humanity UK
way of getting vulnerable people off (AFHUK) – Crisis at Christmas
the streets. Between 2006 –2012 Architecture
For this issue of the Pavement we for Humanity UK worked with
wanted to share a few examples of Crisis to decorate and create more
architects helping charities address welcoming spaces at their Christmas
homelessness: shelters. We did this with volunteers
and reclaimed or donated materials.
Peter Barber – Holmes Road Studios • www.crisis.org.uk
2016: Peter Barber Architects have
a history of working on innovative Reed Watts – 999 Club Sleeping Pods
housing projects and recently 2018: Reed Watts architects
finished Holmes Road Studios in completed indoor sleeping pods
26 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodTemporary bedrooms: Private spaces at the 999 Club
by Reed Watts © Reed Watts
Turn to pages A – P For
the list of services
at the 999 Club’s night shelter in
Deptford. The structures give privacy
and security as temporary bedrooms Chris Hildrey – Proxy Address
in the charity’s emergency shelter. 2019: Although not a physical
• www.999club.org design, Chris Hildrey’s project Proxy
Address uses technology to connect
AFHUK – The Brixton Remakery those facing homelessness with
2013: Architecture for Humanity UK support. The project provides a
worked with Transition Town Brixton stable address throughout periods
to convert 36 derelict garages into of instability – so you get an address,
community maker spaces, where the even if you don’t yet have a house.
use of recycled materials is central What’s more that address looks like
to the work. Now open at 51 Paulet a normal residential address so you
Road in Brixton, the Remakery can use it to open a bank account,
provides affordable, accessible claim benefits or get a job. It started
workspace for those looking to with a trial in Lewisham, and then all
develop skills in woodworking, London. During 2020 it is hoped that
ceramics or textiles. it will become available nationwide.
• www.remakery.org • www.proxyaddress.co.uk
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 27HEALTH
Rock your socks
Take care of your feet this
winter using these tips by
Jemell Geraghty
In a nutshell
• Regularly check your feet during
During the winter months our feet the winter season. That way you
really do take a lot of wear-and-tear. won’t end up with sore feet and
Winter is a tough season so checking legs, unable to put your shoes on
how our feet and legs are may not or even walk.
seem high on our agenda. • Aim to keep one dry spare pair of
Our feet are very important parts socks on you, so if they become
of our body: they carry us from one wet you can change into a dry
place to the next and allow us to pair. Always dry out the wet ones
stand for hours on end, if needed. as soon as you can.
However, if we do not look after our
• When temperatures drop below
feet, we can soon realise how they
-0.55C (31F) you are going to
can become sore, swollen and even
be at risk of frostbite. If your
blistered or ulcerated. Even with
extremities (hands, feet, ears,
the temperature dropping it’s a big
nose, lips) are in pain go to a
mistake to leave our shoes and socks
doctor at once. More info from
on for hours, maybe days, without
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/
ever checking.
frostbite
Checking your feet are OK daily is
essential. • If you, or someone you know,
Prolonged wet feet can be has frostbite, or is at risk of
a serious problem. The serious hypothermia, call 111.
condition it causes is known as trench • For more information see the Legs
foot or immersion foot syndrome. Matter Campaign :
Trench foot was first described https://legsmatter.org
during World War I (1914-18) when Twitter: @LegsMatter
soldiers developed foot conditions
from fighting in cold, wet conditions
in trenches and did not have extra Frostbite can affect any part of
pairs of socks or boots to help keep your body, but the extremities, such
their feet dry. as the hands, feet, ears, nose and
Another condition to be aware of lips, are most likely to be affected.
is frostbite. This is damage to skin The symptoms of frostbite usually
and tissue caused by exposure to begin with the affected parts feeling
freezing temperatures. cold and painful. If exposure to the
28 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street FoodKeep feet, shoes and socks dry to
avoid trench foot © Pavement
• Every day remove socks and
check your feet. Look at the sole
of each foot, heels and in between
the toes. Observe for any unusual
skin changes, itching or burning.
If any of these symptoms persist,
see your nurse or GP as you may
have a fungal infection.
• Foot and leg swelling can be
common when you are on your
cold continues, you may feel pins and
feet and legs a lot. Try and rest
needles before the area becomes
when you can. If you can, elevate
numb as the tissues freeze. If you
and rest your legs with the aim
think you may have frostbite, you
of reducing the swelling. If the
need to see a doctor urgently.
swelling continues or you develop
Tips for keeping feet and legs
a red, hot, swollen and tender leg
healthy this winter:
then you need to see your GP as
• Feet need basic looking after. soon as possible.
Keep them dry (especially in
• When you see a GP or nurse ask
between the toes). Keep them
them to check your feet if you are
covered with socks and wear shoes
unable to do so, and make sure
that don’t rub. Also rest your legs
you have regular follow-ups.
when you can.
• If you do develop a blister, do not
• Layering up is important, as well
burst it. You should leave it, keep
as having a spare pair of clean
it dry and remove any pressure
socks. Think about keeping one
from it. Please see you GP or nurse
dry pair spare and if socks become
for further advice as blisters can
wet, you can change and dry-out
deteriorate.
the wet ones when you get a
chance. • Good luck this winter keeping your
legs and feet working well.
• Use plastic bags to line your
shoes to prevent the wet getting
Dr Jemell Geraghty works at Camden
to your feet. If your shoes get wet,
Health Improvement Practice (CHIP).
it is an idea to dry them out during
Follow her on Twitter:
the day if you can.
@woundnurseUK
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 29HUMOUR Let's go on a food safari Chris Sampson embarked on a whistle-stop tour of London’s streets in the hope of finding a flavour of the capital... • Let’s all go down The Strand, and, according to the old song, “have a banana!” Surely this was evidence of the central London street’s former status as a centre of banana-related activity? Or was it the song by Roxy Music? [Love Is The Drug, you mean? No, Do The Strand]. • Ahem. Anyway, to Tobacco Road, in south London. It made me cough my guts up, discoloured my teeth and made my clothes reek. But not of anything tasty. • Then to north London’s Caledonian Road. Was its ambiance suggestive of savoury thistles and vegan haggis, etc? Can’t say I noticed. • Heading back to central London, I wondered if Carnaby Street might conjure up a flavour of Jimi Hendrix, kaftans and, erm, enjoyment of certain pungent substances during the 1960s... [incoherent ramble follows]... far out, etc... • Ahem. Having, erm, sobered up, I headed to Chelsea. Did the King’s Road retain the taste of a fluorescent tartan miniskirt designed by Vivienne Westwood at her World’s End shop? Not really. A pavement pizza was all I found; evidence perhaps of the previous night’s indulgence. • Finally, to Downing Street. Surely, here at the heart of British democracy I’d get a real taste of London? Strangely, at Number 10 in the road, I developed the squits, evidently sickened by something within. I can’t imagine what... 30 | the Pavement Issue 124: Street Food
Housing in England: Your Rights
Your local council does not always have to help you find emergency
accommodation if you are homeless.
If you need help right now, please try these numbers below.
Ask them to help you make an emergency housing application.
For free help with your emergency If your application is rejected:
housing application: • You should appeal the rejection if
1. Streetlink you think it is wrong. You have 21
• Tel: 0300 500 0914 & also an App days to do so.
2. Shelter • Shelter and Citizens Advice Bureau
• Web: www.shelter.org.uk can help you with your appeal.
• Tel: 0808 800 4444
(8am–8pm Monday – Friday, Visit www.thepavement.org.uk
8am–5pm weekends)
3. Citizens Advice Bureau for a more detailed version of
• Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk your housing rights in England
• Tel: 03444 111 444 and Scotland.
HEALING
What I'm thinking
Thoughts from Garry Burrows who mostly lives outside
1. Keep warm: wear thermal underwear. I’ve also got on a waterproof coat,
jacket, bodywarmer, two jumpers and two T-shirts.
2. Stay dry: If you’re outside sit or lie on thick cardboard and layers of
newspaper to absorb the wet.
3. Look after your shoes: when trainers get wet, they smell. I put mine in the
washing machine at a day centre (or a friend’s) and that sorts them out.
4. Number one vitamin for alcoholics: is thiamine (B1). Your body can’t make
thiamine, but it can absorb it through meat, grain and nuts/seeds as well as
fortified foods (eg, breakfast cereal and bread). If you are alcohol dependent
you may be prescribed thiamine to avoid wet brain. No one wants wet brain.
• Alcoholoics Anonymous: 0800 9177 650
January / February 2020 the Pavement | 31My notepad...
Turn to pages A – P
For the list of servicesThe List
London List
key TO ALL SERVICES HOT MEALS - DAY CENTRES
A Alcohol workers American Int'l Church
AC Art classes 79a Tottenham Ct Rd (entrance in
AD Advocacy Whitfield St), W1T 4TD
AH Accommodation/housing advice 020 7580 2791; amchurch.co.uk/soup-
B Barber kitchen
BA Benefits advice Mon & Tue, Thu–Sat: 10am–midday
BE Bedding available Free hot meals, clothes and toiletries.
BS Bathroom/showers Clothing store alternate Mons.
C Counselling
CL, FF
CA Careers advice
CL Clothing store
D Drugs workers AMURT
DA Debt advice 3a Cazenove Rd, Stoke Newington, N16 6PA
DT Dentist 020 88064250 ; www.amurt.org.uk/
EF Ex-forces who-we-are/amurt-uk/
EO Ex-offenders Thu: 6.30–8pm (Lincoln’s Inn Fields)
ET Education and training Vegetarian food, and music.
F Food FF
FF Free food
FC Foot care Ancilla Soup Kitchen
IT Internet access The Most Precious Blood & St Edmund,
L Laundry 115 Hertford Rd, N9 7EN
LA Legal advice 020 8804 4070; https://bit.
LF Leisure facilities ly/38hNggH
LS Luggage storage Fri: 11am–2pm
MD Music/drama
FF
MH Mental health
MS Medical/health services
NE Needle exchange ASLAN (All Souls Local Action
OL Outreach worker links Network)
OW Outreach workers c/o All Souls Clubhouse, 141 Cleveland
SF Step free access St, W1T 6QG
SH Sexual health advice 020 7580 3522; www.allsouls.org/;
TS Tenancy support info@allsouls.org
Sat: 5.45am–noon: tea: 5.45–6.15am
Changes: web@thepavement.org.uk Tavistock St; 7–7.45am King Wm IV St;
Updated: Dec 2019 Sat: 9am–noon (Webber St); Sat: 6.30–
This is a partial list, tailored for this 8.30pm (invites via tea run or All Souls)
Step-free access via Cleveland St entry.
issue of the Pavement. Full list at AC, CL, D, ET, F, FF, LF
thepavement.org.uk/services.php
www.thepavement.org.uk AThe List
Be Enriched Christian Kitchen
URC Rookstone Rd, SW17 9NQ 65 Blackhorse Rd, W’stow, E17 7AS
07397288160 ; be-enriched.org.uk info@christiankitchen.co.uk; www.
Mon: 12.30–2.30pm, 18 Hampton St, christiankitchen.co.uk/
SE1 6SN; Tue: 7–9pm, 1 Ethelburga St, Mon–Sun: 7.30–8.30pm (Mission Grove
SW11 4AG; Fri: 12.30–2.30pm URC, car park, Walthamstow)
Rookstone Rd, SW17 9NQ FF
Free or pay-as-you-can meals.
F, FF Community of Sant'Egidio
0753 1597364; www.facebook.com/
Bridges santegidiolondon
Memorial Community Ch, 389-395 Sat: 4–4.30pm (hot drinks & sandwiches
Barking Rd, E13 8AL at Carmelite Priory, Pitt Street W8 4JH);
020 7474 6603; http://www. Sat: 4–6pm (last Sat of the month –
bridgeshomelesssupport.org.uk/ 3-course meal in the Carmelite Priory)
Sat: 8–11.30am (cooked breakfast Food, hot drinks and good company.
9–11am); Mon: 10am–2pm F, LF
NHS nurse clinics and signposting to
other support agencies. Community Table
BS, BA, CL, FF, MS, OL Southcroft Church (Ichthus), 276
Mitcham Lane, Streatham, SW16 6NU
Carpenters Café 020 8677 0880; www.southcroft.org/
Carpenters Est Community Hall, 17 Thu: 11am–3pm
Doran Wlk (entry Carpenters Rd), Food, clothing and a warm welcome.
Stratford, E15 2JL BS, FF, IT
07932 661 089; deptfordreach.org.uk
Tue: 10am–midday (food, drinks, Coptic City Mission (St Mark’s
clothes, books, toiletries, showers) Coptic Orthodox Church)
BS, BE, CL, D, F, FF, SF Allen St, Kensington, W8 6UX
0207 937 5782;
Christ Apostolic Church copticcitymission.com/
(Bethel) UK Tue: 9–9.45pm (Spenser St, SW1E 6AA,
217–23 Kingsland Rd, Hackney, E2 8AN then Strand)
020 7729 4375; cacbethel.org/dev/ FF
Sat: 2–3.30pm (last Sat of month);
Sun: 8–9am
Cooked Sunday breakfast and hot meal
on the last Sat of the month.
FF
A Alcohol workers B Barber CA Careers advice EF Ex-forces
AC Art classes BA Benefits advice CL Clothing store EO Ex-offenders
AD Advocacy BE Bedding available D Drugs workers ET Education/training
AH Accomodation/ BS Bathroom/showers DA Debt advice F Food
key
housing advice C Counselling DT Dentist FF Free food
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