well known and national such as the big issue crisis i'm shelter however today alex visits one of the local initiatives the brixton soup kitchen is on the front line of helping homeless i'm fighting against poverty which blights london's plenty. of research there in a soup kitchen to realize that a lot of our service users are for mental health so even just seeing the condos on the walls different services that we provide so we. are 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 about kind of help in the situations that you're already in you know i've never really understood when they said give a homeless person a heart you mill give up are they give a homeless person a heart you know it's going to come tomorrow still wait for another heart you know it's all the hope papa of the soup kitchen is the year we use we don't have a cemetery for them to come in but we've got many services was in the masses way

possible for them to not with. now in a properly ordered society it would be homelessness no it breaks it was really dominating the parliament to bond with however and peace have turned that attention to the issue this is what the babies prices had to say and asked me it was 120 homeless people in the northeast has died since 20 say in a staggering increase as 71 percent of these 120 lives my heart in need to save some recognition the government have said that little studies need to fully investigate investigate the circumstances of these deaths yet they have failed to provide any fun to you know any support told to ensure these investigations actually happen is not because people died on our streets is it really a priority for this government new jersey wants to see the progress sleeping on our streets my rice going to friends join with me and congratulated the huge team one that's going on in cool across the public. back to the private sector which has

seen a reduction in rossley 1st by over 40 percent. every day if someone who is homeless is one too many and we have a moral duty to act we committed 20 roughly people good with the aim of holding 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 eating churches winter night shelter and dealing see a kitchen rhetoric report unprecedented demand 6 years the steps 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 the forms to claimants in a timely manner the subset already talked about the advances the 2 week housing benefit run on and of course additional romance coming on in turn 20 despite despite words this is just make sure the interior the 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 our sleeping across the country and in london as a national disgrace at city hall we have doubled our rusty p. budget and the size of our team help in record numbers of rustling press 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 the age of the opposition and 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 solomon of 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 around the country and we've been inspired by her vision her passion and her love and her empathy and we will take that legacy forward today alex this is a fact like to talk to those taking practical action we join with the people behind the brixton soup kitchen. they joined in the hot bed of brixton soup kitchen

mike other the manager here jennifer one of the they help us welcome to the alexander to thank you frankly for coming down there this is where all the action is i mean obviously the news of finish for the day yeah. for hums 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 adventure 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 then 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 and we point to community to use the kitchen is well when they want to do certain number of events and things like i 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 you

know that are not random i randomly might do it once or once or twice a month depending because if we only see if we go again with time we crazy and we 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. basically i'll play and advise the top center. and author. 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 they too end up coming to the same kate chain and i think this. jennifer has worked at church as well but this is not a religious places 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 family lots of people to come in the building is the

sign in treat everyone equally and no drugs and alcohol paraphernalia and system ice easygoing environment where people can just be relaxed 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 they were 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 author. 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 cog in project as well where people can get their green fingers on

a learn about god and because obviously a lot of people that grow up in a same environment they don't have a god and so for us having the mass of god that we do you have it helps to bring the community in and that neutral didn't families know about gordon and then we use a lot of those fresh produce that we grow in the kitchen here there'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 to pay a visit or who'll be the best and maybe for my hobby or for as these women pop down a really good heart you know on the 1st things are hardest in the 1st year that 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 a sky is one of the buttons made up of us alarmed is the one shot of reality 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. solomon mohamad co-author of the soup kitchen welcome to the

chill and it's a solemn hard to say it's like a very religious said to few. so we 1st saw that i did what was the idea behind the soup kitchen when did you get involved whole goal was how he built. in that for a call to 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 it's put pen to paper and i was this large in a war we need to have a soup kitchen in literally went around order from the senate is you know there was telling me no it's not going to work and you know are just kind of i was kind of just put the pressure on and i was a stock you know i need to run it so it's a couple senators 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 had to go hold of the property the jew who reigned for various places all just got a benefactor i did you get a hold of this prop there was a the chief exec at the time was there and the son i mean him was quite close i was

working for a few service for over 15 years and he was 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 you know you don't have to look it is nice to have a kitchen and a dining area where they can kind of calm and sit down and that's when he said you know off think i'll do some talk and try to see if our guys it's a domino crop and mohamed you know it's not just a cool thing to the soup kitchen you know a local kind does that help in getting a bit of official help to the luck of the soup kitchen help us in bridging the understanding between the community and the politicians and for me what we found is a lot of the politicians especially the local ones i've been looking to get involved in local community is asians but never really knew how to and we have people that solomon and people that michael 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 that communication so solomon thinking back to the very 1st day you open the mail how many people close the door crossed the threshold of the. literally i think yeah the 1st day we didn't do soup or we didn't burn but literally we had about 40 people come in that day. and that's when i was like you know what the service is actually really needed you know i've never really what's you know doing homelessness. 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 you don't have a set dinner it's really rolling in rolling out so during that time you 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 the community in problems or struggling so they can come together a shared resources and feel part of something bigger. coming up after the big alex continue says it to the brixton soup kitchen join us.

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welcome back with politics consumed by bricks it alex looks at some of the issues which should be dominating the political agenda we join him in bricks and 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 seeing 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 up are they give a homeless person a hearty mood going to come in tomorrow still wait for an overhaul you know saw the whole purpose of the soup kitchen is to yeah we used to be civil to you for them to come in but we've got many services was in the masses way possible for them to not return so u.t.m. is for you clients for your customers you don't want to deal won't tell customers you want them to graduate stable their lifestyle for the most earth 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 significance then allows them to you know get a job you know we've come to date we've got. 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 sum of your claim to. i've been transformed by the help of phonte of an assistant to the come back and give you a helping hand 100 percent clients who have been with us from the beginning i'm not they volunteering with us because they want to give back they want to give but not 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 not give but 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 sought the help of what i see of people again we've got clients that are homeless we've got clients are suffering from mental health should we even go do you people to come into our lonely that haven't got any family in immediate vicinity so for us

this is a whole community supports and it's about any problems that you have to look at the problems and find a way to solve it together. and i notice a lot of the messaging edley soup kitchens very posed a very uplifting. positivity a killer psychological thing is that a religious undertones what you're trying to say to your clients with these messages i'm trying to support messages in their minds about them even though in every time when people come in there they're like a feeling of just being in his just amazing. you know the bright colors 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 things 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 the type of religious code you know for is

a center where anyone could come in and anyone can 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 intentions so what would you say then mohamed was the ethos behind the place is it good energy is was the underlying impetus you've got for me everyone 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 and be yourself again you find yourself and you find some friends and hopefully as friends for life because when 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 same politicians hold. he would wish you could bring them in for that all the 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 especially in the u.k. in 2019 almost 2020 you know. i just think you know the pace is. you know a lot of politicians might not kind of one might think they think so hunky dory where they are you know i you know i just sometimes wish you know they could kind of calm down see what sky and on and support groups operates the soup kitchen you know we've never had no government funding ever 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 a spark in people's mind just to show you how easy it is to support someone and help someone you know and if anybody 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 is as follows 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 on the 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 the. 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 end up in practice not fulfilling the subject for me is the disconnect from the people that you're supposed to represent and for me a challenge to 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. there were 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 street when i say hello to them and 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 don't 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 so we're working with brixton marbury. the misformed literally it was just like you know we said once they said you know about holiday hunger we said some of what we have to do last week or hold the hunger or the efforts to combat it sort of in mohammad what should i bishan 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 world homelessness you know my main things 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 to give a number 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. nearly what welfare that i'll call only in the quakerly you know your clients customers and friends and all the focal good will support you to be made a lot. to do for you over the guys or slices of the fun thank you very much ali ali thank you why is homelessness such an intractable problem experts would tell you it's because it encompasses so many other issues mental health family breakup social security breakdown 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 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 see to sleep claim that the level of power to a quarter to this you amass 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 return to some of the celebrity campaigners getting their shoulders to this important we'll do their efforts make her feel difference join us next week to fight but meanwhile from alex and i and all of the show it's goodbye for a night. last night a financial survival guide today was all about money laundering 1st because it is cash in the 3 different. oh good that's a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in europe

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