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Matthew Hobbs is a Peer Support Caseworker with Groundswell: supporting clients experiencing homelessness and mental health challenges.

Behind bars
Matthew Hobbs July 01 2020

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...

Read all about it
Matthew Hobbs July 01 2019

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...

This charming man
Matthew Hobbs September 05 2018

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...

Creating change
Matthew Hobbs September 05 2018

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...

Let's go outside
Matthew Hobbs July 25 2018

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 ...

First person: First aid
Matthew Hobbs May 15 2018

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...

Wellbeing: What do you need?
Matthew Hobbs May 15 2018

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...

GP will see you
Matthew Hobbs February 27 2018

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...

Why suicide?
Matthew Hobbs February 27 2018

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 ...

Off balance
Matthew Hobbs February 27 2018

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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