duty to act we committed 20 roughly people good with the aim of carving it by 2022 and that's just he commits 200000000 pounds to tucker sleeping and it's fun to go for 1750 but space isn't 500 new still through the rough sleeping in the shift it's no coincidence that as universal credits healing in the last year food bank used to stop even churches winter night shelter and dealing soup kitchen rectory report unprecedented demand 6 years the depths of the soup kitchen in the last year are they not ashamed that christian charity is having to mop up the gaps of its policy and when will they. put into place the n.a.s. recommendation to look up hardship as well as spotty statistics others. speak of what i would say of course are a range of reasons why people make use of food banks but what's important what is important is that the d.w.p. make sure that we get funds to claimants in a timely manner the subset already talked about the one percent advances the 2 week

housing benefit run on and of course additional romance coming on in turn 20 despite despite the words this is just make sure the interior nature of the issue and the difficulty that governments of all persuasions have had in coming to terms with it led to me aside it can say is the rise in the sleeping across the country and london is a national disgrace at city hall we have doubled our rusty ping budget and the size of our team helped in record numbers of rust sleepers but the figures show more and more people continue to be forced onto the streets by the government's policies from welfare cuts to a lack of investment in social housing but is a london mayor powerless in the face of these trends and in the absence of public initiative what practically can be done the big thing soup kitchen has had support in the past from the elite tessa jowell. for all that achieved on the national or international stage she never forgot the local and it was as a local campaigner

a politician i 1st knew tester when i was leader of the opposition a leader of the council in lamberth where she was one of our fantastic local m.p.'s and whether it was the young people solo his friends who set up the brixton soup kitchen tessa's lot of was with people in the community is that they were part of there's a little bit of tessa influence of us around south london or around the country and we've been inspired by her vision and her passion and her love and her empathy and we will take that legacy forward today alex this is the front line to talk to those taking practical action we're joined now by the people behind the brixton soup kitchen. now and they joined in the hot bed of brixton soup kitchen maker the manager here jennifer one of the they help us welcome to the alan salmon to thank you thank you for coming down now this is where all the action is i mean obviously the news of finish for the day yeah. i want to know what happens if you know you're

running the stuff or as you can see the building see how it is put together see this is where the magic happens where it's not a venture and this is the kitchen so this is a far as the money the main thing is food is the main facilitator that we use to bring people together on and having this industrial kitchen is a great help because it helps us china so much mills and then when we get large donations we can store them we can stop them so it's really good that we have this kitchen and that we can have people come in come and help our community to use the kitchen is well when they want to do certain number of events and things and would be the number one perk of mulia clients number one popular mall probably be. alright yeah it's really good as ourselves for specific dailor that are not random at random and might do it once or want to twice a month depending because if we obviously from the time we very easy to stay there jennifer of your help before this but you also help with some of the other services

from using your own background and employment that was about. basically i've had an edge by the top sent out. and also. for the chat while i was at the job center of the slate people had left and then unfortunately things didn't work out for them to end up coming to the sink a chain and i thought this. jennifer has worked at church as well but this is not a religious basis of all people so i am a forces kind of tree in everyone equally and not having any lack religious views or any. so for us the only thing we lots of people to come in the building is it's a sign man treat everyone equally and no drugs and alcohol paraphernalia and this is a mighty easygoing environment where people can just be relaxed in you know they don't have to pray before they get there for you and so there's an underlying ethos to

respect people yes but not necessarily a religious one you're not necessarily religious so all the things you've experienced here 1st was the possible surprising thing that the people coming in to break the soup kitchens they were the 1st what may surprise them about what they're able to do here. vita things that you couldn't tell him. we were. doing thumb drawing and sketch a life story and and also. have been playing games which is like card games and playing tom and this is a very different thing so for instance we have a cordon and project as well where people can get their green fingers on the learn about god and because obviously a lot of people that grow up in the same environment they might have a garden so for us having the massive garden that we do you have it helps to do the

community in and neutral during family you know about gordon and we use a lot of those fresh produce that we grow in the kitchen here so it's an employer oh yeah i need to know if i was june to come sneak in for a meal one day what would be the best day of the week to pay a visit or who'll be the best and maybe for me probably affairs these women down a really good heart known for things that harvest and those that are you know we have an edge you know we've cooked them before we haven't had haggis yet but we could have a score it's a scottish thing of a scale of one have a bottoms made up of us alarmed is the one shot of a rally really good that we really get a sense of the recipes thank you thank you jennifer thank you mike is the worst thank you thank you. there's sort of an mohamad core side of the breakfast and soup kitchen welcome to the alex salmond chill and the sort of the harmless tastes like a very religious sentence you. tell me if i saw that i did what was the idea behind the soup kitchen when did you get involved how long ago was it and how he built i

literally what a novel. published in that for a quarter my mom and club and while i was there i was like you know i could do this you know this needs to be in brixton so literally when i finished my degree you know just put pen to paper and i was a slight you know well we need to have a soup kitchen in brixton literally went around all different you know there was telling me no it's not going to work and you know i just kind of just i just kind of just put the pressure on and i was back and i need to run it so it's a couple centers and then i just said you know i want to run it for one day we can see how it turns out you know and it's kind of turned out quite amazing and how did you get hold of the property that you. little rain for various places or did you get a benefactor how did you get a hold of us probably there was a the chief exec at the time was there anderson i mean him was was what quite close i was working for a lot of the service for over 15 years and he was one what gave me my 1st job i literally when he knew that i was running the soup kitchen i just said to him you

know we need to send our you know we don't have to look propose it is we have a kitchen and a dining area where they can kind of comments it done and that's when he said you know i fink i'll do some talk and try to see if ok guys that i'm one of them and mohammed is not just a co-founder of the soup kitchen you know a local council does that help in getting a better special help to the walk of the soup kitchen it helps in bridging the understanding between the community and and the politicians and for me what we found is a lot of the politicians specially the local ones i've been looking to get involved in local community organizations but never really knew how to and we have people like saddam and people like michael who have been in this community for so. but don't understand how the council don't understand the processes and procedures etc i've just been great lucky enough to be able to fill that gap and fill it out void in terms of communication so solemn and thinking back to the very 1st day you open the mail how many people close the door crossed the threshold of the. lid think

yeah the 1st day we didn't do soup or we didn't burn but literally we had about 40 people in the day when he hit me and that's when i was like you know what this service is that she really needed you know i've never really what you know doing homelessness i've never really worked on a charge before. you know me just put enough in the impact the 1st day was crazy and you know that's when you know i was like this has to be done so how many people would you get. between 45 and 50 if i'm honest because we don't have a set lunch period we don't have a set dinner it's really rolling in rolling out so during that time we get so many people coming in and out so it's. about 50 people it's not just meals sure you're offering here you open a range of services to tell us about the other services you offer so we have

a closed bank the way we set up is that it's almost like a shop so people don't feel like we're giving them rubbish or we're giving them for always when everyone is about confidence for us so close bank is about making people feel that they are worth something with a food bank for the weekends we're not open we have employee billy area because we had a lot of problems with people i was on on benefits having to run around doing their jobs and then leaving for appointments etc so we tried to really build a holistic support a community support center for everyone in a community that's in problems or struggling so they can come together our shared resources and feel part of something bigger. coming up after the break out of this continue says visit to the brixton soup kitchen join us then. rob them to follow our lead comes out of the cold war. of the sort of one among

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shoot on disk in the. least you. know new car so so don't know pretty much the same new mama is just back. and. welcome back with politics consumed by bricks it alex success some of the issues which should be dominating the political agenda we join him in brixton in the front line of the battle against poverty and homelessness. solomon. what do you think was surprising thing about the range of services and they had aphasia it off to just start something like the less size monday and thought of that look at the top

of the great success tell us about so yes so we've done a lot of research there in the soup kitchen to realize that a lot of our service uses of them into health so even just see in the colors on the walls different services that we provide so we've got about god and i what we do growing for where they grow their own produces you know we've got massage massage monday's you know and this is some of this is about that is just about kind of help in situations that you already in you know i've never really understood when they said give a homeless person a heart you will give a part they give a homeless person a hearty mood going to come in tomorrow still wait for another heart you know saw the whole purpose of the soup kitchen is to yes we use food as a facilitator for them to come in but we've got many services was in the masses where possible for them to not return so u.t.m. is for your clients for your customers you know one below customers you want them

to graduate stable their lifestyle for the most earth and you know even just doing small things like you know maybe help making them you know throughout the food bank then you know graduate into then given now the food you know we do a lot of training and so we get so we do face a train in then we do food safety training what kind of gets them working into the kitchen and then once we get them those type of civic kits and allows them to you know get a job you know we've today with 18 people back into full time education you know we've got some people back into full time work and those are our most success stories where we're actually getting people from homelessness to actually working actually in in accommodation and the summer. to slay. i have been transformed by the. systems to really come back and give you a helping hand 100 percent clients who have been with us from the beginning i'm not there volunteering with us because they want to give back they want to give support

they got when they needed it to someone else that needs it so for us is an amazing circle for us a cycle that shows positivity you never want people just to leave and forget and i'm not give back it's about making sure when you needed help and you go if you're able to reciprocate that help again and help someone else and all your clients homeless you have a variety of people again we've got homeless we've got clients are suffering from mental health. we even go oh do you people to come into our lonely that haven't got any family in immediate vicinity so for us this whole community supports and any problems that you have we'll look at the problems and find a way to solve it together. and i notice a lot of the messaging and lee soup kitchen is very paused the valley lifting. up positivity i feel a psychological thing as a religious sort of told what you're trying to say to your clients with these messages try and support messages in their minds about them even knowing. every

time when people come in that. feeling of just being in has just amazing. you know the bright collins you know the soft music you know you know that you know for us we didn't a lot of soup kitchens might be from churches are might be religious but for us we didn't one of our main foods we didn't want it for someone to come in them for they had to pray through you know there has to be have to do so type of religious code you know for its ascent where anyone could come in and anyone could fool confortable it was not religious you know everyone's not spiritual however everybody knows about bad energies and good intentions for us we're just trying to dispel a lot of good images so what would you say then what happened was the ethos behind the place is a good energy was the underlying impetus for me everyone can regardless of your background what you've gone through is about being able to come somewhere where you

know you feel valued you feel part of something and for us it's about that confidence everyone goes through things that knock their confidence a little bit and makes them with joy into themselves for us this is a place where you come out and be yourself again you find yourself and you find some friends and hopefully as friends for life because when you're rad above and you feel hopelessness and you're able to survive with the support of a few people that you didn't know just a few moments before self is priceless. you know london is a great international capital city is full of megabit. multibillion. financial say politicians all full. he would wish you could bring them in for the what a time you know i'm saying there's a lot of powerful people you know. we shouldn't have to be doing a soup kitchen you know we shouldn't have to be you know they shouldn't be people

who are in dire need of a. in the u.k. in 2019 almost 2020 you know. i just think you know pace is. you know a lot of politicians might not kind of wonder around the head there might think if it's all hunky dory where they are you know i you know i just sometimes wish you know they could kind of calm down see was sky and on and support groups operates a soup kitchen you know we've never had no government funding. we were allowed on donations we rely on you know the public support you know and there's so much we can do you know especially you know we're not we're not saying kids is going to concord homelessness but we're actually had just to put the spark in people's minds to show you how easy is to support someone and help someone you know and if everybody had that same mindset what we're trying to change you know we wouldn't be here in the next 5 years let's say politics and policy such as universal credit.

which they would argue was introduced with the best of intentions would be helpful to see some of the reality behind what happens to people of the get section. and the life as is false of the total disarray from for me specially with examples of universal credit we've seen people come here who have been totally destroyed by that policy and it's sad because it's politicians i've never been on benefits that decide these policies decide a fantastic ideas without ever talking to people it's affected by example of university we deal with so many people are coming under sanctions who don't understand how to budget their money because of the stresses they get in free 74 percent of our services suffer from mental health but what the government has done is is just increase the pressure on them almost in the hope that they are going to fail and yet if you think about the genesis of universal care. a long time ago when tooling some of the deprived areas of glasgow and elsewhere the thought that this

might be a way to get people off benefits could something which presumably started off with noble motives and often not fulfilling the subject for me is the disconnect from the people that you're supposed to represent and for me a challenge to him duncan smith would have been who did you speak to that was on benefits who told you was a good idea how many people did you go and see afterwards to see how it's affected their lives but the stigma of homelessness how can we remove the the shame many people feel the drive in the position i think is less about removing the shame from the people that's going through the situations and it's more about connecting with people when we know we can see that after a tough time a lot of time people are going through a tough time with draw because they feel ashamed and they feel there's a perception for me what we found is the biggest biggest biggest thing lacking from the homeless people that we were going to people going through something is the

fact they don't feel like. there were a view of having a conversation if you don't feel like they are allowed to or should and for me that's something we have to take on and we have to start bridging that gap and make an effort to make them feel ok the situation you go for it doesn't define you it doesn't define who you are it doesn't it's not the be all and end all and for me that's something that we have to start encouraging in people we see them so we see someone sitting outside a cheap station or even food on the side of this she want to say hello to them but when i asked them if they like something from the show just a simple hello would literally change their whole day and for me that's a response really we have to take one. soul in. the whole of the period english school hold it's not long finished close but take the problems for families most deaths you know because we understand that there's a lot of children that depends on the free school meals you know because we because we know it is one of the main reasons why we decided to do

a film called. brixton marbury. the mets are literally it was just like you know we said once they said you know about holiday hunger we said the sort of we have to do last week or holiday hunger all of the efforts to combat it sort of in mohammad what should have been for brixton soup kitchen where would you want to go with this place you know my main thing is to be closed down in the next 5 years hopefully just to you know that we could what homelessness you know my main thing is about working to give our there's millions and millions of homeless cherries but the problem is we're not working to go along in the meantime but before there's no need for a place like this what would your inhibitions be so my ambition 2024 is to be the mayor of london so i can implement in the policies that we need to get go forward together now by the miracle of television much equally and all excitement quakers appeared nice guys let me tell you about the drill this is clearly a loving cup what you do is put whiskey other fluids of nestle. clearly what

welfare of the local only was in the quake and only you know your clients customers and friends and all the focal good will support you to be a better one. so the favorite guys or rice was over is a fine thank you very much ali thank you why is homelessness such an intractable problem experts would tell us because it encompasses so many other issues mental health family breakup social security predicting now that any and all of these things are important however few would seriously argue that homelessness that is those without permanent accommodation and still less rough sleeping is a positive life choice so why is it therefore that one of the world's wealthiest most powerful cities that rob sleeping is remorselessly rising not falling as we have seen politicians are passing the parcel and of course the responsibility however no one can seriously claim that the level of power to accorded to this you

are not allocated to breaks it are in any sort of proportion and therefore those at the front line of initiatives to face during the crisis you tell encouragement and support. no one in the bricks and soup kitchen believes that their actions alone can tackle the issue but equally no one believes that their individual successes are anything other than important and above all every single one of the helpers believes that their ultimate task is to ensure that their own services are no longer required. next week we turn to some of the celebrity campaigners who are putting their shoulders to this important real to their efforts make a real difference join us next week to fight but meanwhile from alex and i and all of the show it's goodbye for a night on our. thanks

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