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Matthew Hobbs is a Peer Support Caseworker with Groundswell: supporting clients experiencing homelessness and mental health challenges.
22 years ago Ruth Wyner, director of a Cambridge homelessness
charity, was imprisoned for letting heroin be dealt by serviceusers on site. Here she discusses politics and prison with Matthew
Hobbs
“I used to get people knocking on the door of the night shelter saying that the Cambridgeshire police had taken them off the str...
There’s no normal when you lose your home. This piece by Matthew Hobbs is inspired by the recovery theme of our last issue (Issue 120)
In a nutshellThere is nothing normal about homelessness. But homelessness has become increasingly normalized.Being homeless is a...
A trip to Parliament to talk homelessness with Nick Herbert MP gets Matt Hobbs thinking about the campaigning power held by voters
A trip to the Houses of Parliament to talk homelessness with Nick Herbert MP gets Matt Hobbs thinking about the campaigning powe...
Our Action Day proposal looks set to change the ways homeless services talk about suicide.
Our Action Day proposal looks set to change the ways homeless services talk about suicide. Following the Pavement’s speci...
Carla Ecola, founder of the UK's first LGBTIQ+ crisis/homeless shelter and community centre, talks hidden homelessness.
Carla Ecola, founder of the UK's first LGBTIQ+ crisis/ homeless shelter and community centre, The Outside Project, talks hidden ...
Talking to a stranger at the Listening Place can save lives, writes Matt Hobbs
Talking to a stranger at the Listening Place can save lives The strength it takes to utter the words “I want to kill mys...
Our needs are seldom asked. They’re often assumed. And the answers are varied, writes Matt Hobbs
Our needs are seldom asked. They’re often assumed. And the answers are varied What do you need? For some it might be a cu...
You have a right to healthcare. Find out more.
More than 60,000 My Right to Healthcare cards have been printed after Groundswell’s peer-research study, More than a Stati...
Everyone found this assignment tough...
Everyone found this assignment tough... Our From The Ground Up peer reporters know what it’s like to be homeless. Their ...
Low income, debt, and unemployment all increase the risk of suicide, but they are also some of the causes of homelessness
Low income, debt, and unemployment all increase the risk of suicide, but they are also some of the causes of homelessness. ...
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