'We slowly build a rapport': how street buddies connect with rough sleepers

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London scheme’s approach differs dramatically from those of police and many other charities

A freezing wind is whipping through London’s Victoria as Tim Joyce and Gerry O’Brien approach two rough sleepers huddled in sleeping bags on the pavement outside a branch of the Halifax bank. A few doors along police and private security guards hustle other homeless people out of doorways, sending one running into the traffic in his socks. Another flees towards the station, duvet flapping.

 

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Blokes pretending to have invented outreach work. Many outreach teams have volunteers working with them. Who knew it was paradise to be homeless in London! Awful article.

Excellent idea I see it in towns and cities around northern England if it weren't for people like these and the charities we would be in a poorer state than we are already in local charities arr the HEARTBEAT of this country because central government don't give a 'f*ck'

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