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August – September 2024 : Being Heard

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Come cook with us

A community-led cookbook in Barking & Dagenham aims to empower residents, including those experiencing homelessness, to prepare nutritious, low-cost meals. By Emdad Rahman

Your rights: Groundswell Health Update

Everybody has the right to good health. Read this reproduction of a Groundswell pocket guide to learn more about your healthcare rights

News

News in Brief 151: August – September 2024

News in Brief by Pilar Thorley-Saiz

Features

A people's history

The Museum of Homelessness has published its first book A People’s History of Finsbury Park. Marsha Glenn shares highlights from the book launch event

Barriers to healthcare

Thoughts on the difficulties and stigma people experiencing homelessness face when trying to access healthcare. By Mat Amp

Not begging but drowning

On the dismal failure of government to confront the increase in homelessness in the UK and how policy has actively worsened the situation. By André Rostant

Opinion

Reading material

A review of a new book focusing on homelessness, The Way Home, by David Bullock. Review by Sophie Dianne

Obituaries

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Your voice

Doing time, part II

Time traveller McHaggis is serving time, arrested under draconian laws. As he plots an escape, he bickers with fellow inmates and struggles with prison guards.
Screenplay by Chris Sampson

In desperation, they wrote

Formatted in prose paragraphs, while written in rhyming couplets, before Christy Fleming describes the desperate situation many people in Ireland find themselves in amidst a housing crisis

Issue 151: Comics

This issue's comics from our brilliant artists.

Jill's story

This is a moving story of a service user’s unique life journey of triumph over adversity and her fight to be heard. The story involves sensitive material some readers may find disturbing. Interview and accompanying words by Darren Harvey

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