Caring In Bristol: A local charity launches Bristol’s only youth emergency shelter

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Caring in Bristol works in imaginative and creative ways with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, with the public and community partners to bring about lasting change in Bristol. The cost of living crisis is a very real worry for many people in the city of bristol. But thanks to charities such as caring in bristol, 97% of people experiencing homelessness in bristol are not sleeping rough.

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00:00 "Over the past year or so we've seen that pressure build and it's pushing people to

00:07 the limit. They can't afford certain things and it's just becoming so difficult for people

00:15 just to maintain the roof over their heads. It's a situation that people shouldn't be

00:20 in and it can't be right that people are worrying about whether they're going to be homeless

00:24 in the next month, the next week or whenever."

00:28 Caring in Bristol works in imaginative and creative ways with people experiencing or

00:33 at risk of homelessness, with the public and community partners to bring about lasting

00:38 change in Bristol. Let's chat to the Caring in Bristol team to find out more.

00:43 "We're in Bristol at the Caring in Bristol offices. We're a local homelessness charity.

00:48 As a homelessness charity we believe that homelessness is not inevitable so a good deal

00:53 of the work that we do is helping people to move away from a homelessness crisis. If we

00:58 can stop homelessness in its tracks it's better for the individual and it's much better for

01:03 the city too. We have a number of projects which support people facing homelessness.

01:10 That might be working with our food projects to help people who have to make the tough

01:15 decisions around their personal budgets or we give information advice across Bristol

01:22 communities, helping people to understand what their rights are and what their options

01:27 are in terms of their housing. And we have a youth project as well so we're helping younger

01:33 people who are facing homelessness so we can help them to recover from a period of homelessness

01:39 or to avoid it in the first place."

01:41 The cost of living crisis is a very real worry for many people in the city of Bristol. But

01:46 thanks to charities such as Caring in Bristol, 97% of people experiencing homelessness in

01:51 Bristol are not sleeping rough. Let's find out more from Team Caring in Bristol.

01:57 "The project is growing at the moment. We're currently building a new youth shelter. That

02:03 will be emergency accommodation for younger people who would otherwise find themselves

02:08 out on the streets. So it's going to be a safe haven that gives them the support that

02:13 they need to move forward and get their life back on track. Homelessness affects people

02:19 in a whole range of ways. People often think that it's just street homelessness. That means

02:26 it's just visible to people. But it's the hidden homelessness that is a real problem.

02:31 We have a cost of living crisis that's currently playing out. We have rising rents. And we

02:38 have a scarcity of accommodation for people and that all adds to the pressure that people

02:44 are feeling. And that's building and that's pushing people closer to the point of homelessness.

02:50 And it's our role to try and move people back from that point."

02:56 Only time will tell what the impact of winter will be on people experiencing or at risk

03:01 of homelessness.

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