Crisis Open Christmas 2011

[pickledseal]

Few days spare over the festive period?

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Every year (except last year when I was on holiday) I do a few shifts on the Activities and Entertainments team. Always a lot of fun and very rewarding, feels good at this time of year to give people a bit of warmth, shelter, food, love and comfort.

I'll be at Rough Sleepers shelter on 23rd and 24th and possible 28th, 29th and 30th.

Visit http://bit.ly/3nMpFe to volunteer for Crisis at Christmas 2011.

Feel free to ask any questions...

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Whats the plat du jour this year?

 

[TrueBlue]

Few days spare over the festive period?

[video=youtube_share;hNC8vJcrqRs]http://youtu.be/hNC8vJcrqRs[/video]

Every year (except last year when I was on holiday) I do a few shifts on the Activities and Entertainments team. Always a lot of fun and very rewarding, feels good at this time of year to give people a bit of warmth, shelter, food, love and comfort.

I'll be at Rough Sleepers shelter on 23rd and 24th and possible 28th, 29th and 30th.

Visit http://bit.ly/3nMpFe to volunteer for Crisis at Christmas 2011.

Feel free to ask any questions...

I will be down the pub drinking on them dates thinking to myself "I am glad I got of my arse and god a job and WORKED for this pint I see before me!"

Lazy ****ing lay-abouts

 

[pickledseal]

Whats the plat du jour this year?

Always full turkey roast on Christmas Day! It's amazing what gets donated... it was M&S mince pies all round in 2009 too. Macro Pierre White also visited the centre.

 

[Cricko]

Whats the plat du jour this year?

 

[pickledseal]

I will be down the pub drinking on them dates thinking to myself "I am glad I got of my arse and god a job and WORKED for this pint I see before me!"

Lazy ****ing lay-abouts

Such a large number of the people I've met are ex-services who struggled returning to civilian life after Falklands, Iraq 1 etc. Often ended up alcohol or drug addicted. They had a job, gave up everything and then got left to 'get on with it'.

You're exactly right to call them lazy lay-abouts. :dizzy:

The system also ****s so many of these people... you can't get a job because you don't have an address, and you can't get an address because you don't have a job. I certainly wouldn't chose to spend my Christmas living on the street, its a cold, dangerous world out there... every second the possibility of being attacked or robbed of what little you have, not sure where your next meal or bed will come from - lazy is the last thing you are.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

I will be down the pub drinking on them dates thinking to myself "I am glad I got of my arse and god a job and WORKED for this pint I see before me!"

Lazy ****ing lay-abouts

nice bit of blame the victim is always the easiest option.
Good on you Pickled.

 

[TrueBlue]

Fair enough about ex service men but some of these people must be just damn lazy!!!

 

[pickledseal]

Fair enough about ex service men but some of these people must be just damn lazy!!!

Unfortunate, unlucky, victims of circumstance, family/marital breakdown, addition (gambling/drink/drugs), redundancy... these are the most common reasons.

There is a real division amongst homeless (and that includes those in vulnerable housing and with 'no fixed address'), with a number of eastern Europeans now on the streets too. Some of their stories are truly tragic whereby they were told there was work and 'free money' in England... they have families and came to get it to enable their families to survive. I think I would have done the same in their position? You've got to do what you got to do to survive. However those promises turned out to be false... many can't afford or can't face to go back to their families.In 2009, I met a good number who had been paid to come and work on T5 at Heathrow. It was all good, paid to come over, paid relatively good money to work (they were doing all the crap jobs that lots of British workers wouldn't do, or just worked for less). They sent it all home to their families... but then didn't get the plane ticket home paid for. They couldn't afford to get back home, a couple of hundred is a LOT of money when you have nothing at all. Some also talked of the bedsit they lived in (10-20 blokes in a one bed flat on a sleeping rotation).


Why would you want to live like this? That is what laziness implies, you choose to do this as the best option?