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INCREASING THE WELLBEING<br />
OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS<br />
OR MARGINALISED<br />
WHAT WE DID<br />
We worked in Deptford with 17 adults who are<br />
vulnerable through homelessness, mental ill-health,<br />
loneliness, social exclusion or severe poverty. Through<br />
film, creative writing and music, they explored personal<br />
and community identity, whilst building self-esteem and<br />
peer-support networks.<br />
The number of rough sleepers each<br />
night in 2017 was 4,751, a 15% rise on<br />
the previous year.<br />
There are 13.5 million people living<br />
in poverty in the UK, 21% of the<br />
population.<br />
86% of homeless people have <strong>report</strong>ed<br />
having mental health difficulties.<br />
SAM<br />
Sam, who is supported by the team at Deptford<br />
Reach, shared a piece of his creative writing<br />
devised during a Create workshop.<br />
I return a different person. I’m not the man<br />
I was before. People need to understand<br />
this. When people see I’ve changed, I’ll be<br />
appreciated. I can settle, have a family. But it<br />
will take time, I know.<br />
I have to watch out for those who won’t<br />
accept me. Watch my back. Because this<br />
is a risk. I know it’s a risk, but when they<br />
started coming in my shop for the first day,<br />
it was like I was dreaming. As time goes on it<br />
looks like nothing ever happened. So things<br />
change around me. So I can start a new life<br />
again. Get a wife, have kids, make some new<br />
friends, meet some of the old ones.<br />
THIS HAS<br />
OPENED MY<br />
MIND TO THE<br />
POTENTIAL OF<br />
BRINGING JOY<br />
TO OTHERS<br />
THROUGH<br />
MUSIC.<br />
Participant<br />
<strong>Impact</strong> Report 2018/19 19
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