Selling the Big Issue on the streets of London

The fact that we've been through a pandemic and realising well that's done for the big issue but also for homelessness, how much that's troubled everything. I felt my birthday coming up was a good opportunity to tie something around it. I wanted to make sure that we were highlighting something that matters to me and ever since I came here to Passage with my mother I can't remember how old I was. Homelessness has always stuck with me as a topic and as an issue I want to fight for and so I've done everything I can to kind of raise the profile of homelessness and I want to do a lot more and a lot more needs to be done. But I think off the back of everyone in, you know the pandemic, I started to kind of feel that actually this issue isn't quite as big to tackle as we think. We can fix it. I think that's been a bit of a turning point in my head where I've seen okay if we really want to fix homelessness, it can be done, we do it together and there's a big team effort. It is possible to, I never want to say completely end homelessness because it was every day something else might happen to someone but get on top of homelessness a lot more than we have done. There's no doubt about it, more support at the sharp end is needed definitely. What I'd like to do is build something more permanent but fixing all the other issues as well so we can tie everyone together rather than firefighting going on and brilliantly done in lots of other areas. Get to bring everyone together and have it a bit more streamlined and coordinated. That's my aim to try and tackle that and therefore give the next generation less chance of being homeless.