00:00 The cost of living crisis had a huge impact on day to day life and we're finding more
00:05 and more people losing their homes because they cannot afford to pay their rent.
00:11 I am here outside of Bristol Outreach Service for the Homeless as they open for a normal
00:17 day operating not only as a central base for survival on the streets but as a transition
00:22 off of them too.
00:24 Let's find out more from Bosch's CIO Julie Dempster about the impact the charity makes
00:29 on the city of Bristol.
00:31 Bosch is Bristol Outreach Services for the Homeless so this is a homeless hub where people
00:38 can come for support, advocacy, food, computer use, mobile phone charging and access to other
00:48 services.
00:50 Bosch offers a range of services to rough sleepers and the vulnerably housed both from
00:55 their outreach services around Bristol to their homeless hub HQ that provides a variety
01:01 of specialist programmes including drop in partner agency support.
01:06 Let's find out more about why the charity's work is so important.
01:11 We have 26 volunteers, we are a small independent charity.
01:17 We could not function without our volunteers and they have a range of abilities, they're
01:22 from a range of backgrounds.
01:25 We have volunteers with lived experience which I believe are crucial but we also have volunteers
01:32 from professional backgrounds which again give such an important mix to the team.
01:42 One thing that is essential to the future of the charity is its volunteers.
01:47 Miss Bristol Great Britain's Imogen Chapman has supported the charity for a number of
01:52 her years and has used the platform she has gained through pageants to help those in need
01:58 in the city.
01:59 I am a volunteer, I have a very close relationship with Bosch.
02:04 I have worked full time with the charity as well as volunteered alongside of my day job.
02:11 I've done it now since I was 16.
02:15 I met Julie at another charity, another homeless charity that we worked for and then when she
02:20 founded Bosch I immediately started helping her with that so I've been here for a long
02:25 time.
02:26 The two go hand in hand.
02:27 When I first got into pageants I was maybe 15, 16 years old and a lot of people would
02:33 talk to me about a platform.
02:35 What's your platform?
02:37 What do you want to promote?
02:38 And obviously at that age I didn't really have a clue but I always knew that something
02:42 that really interested me was the homeless issue within Bristol.
02:48 According to the government website, as of March this year just under 38,000 households
02:54 were threatened with homelessness.
02:56 Only time will tell how the work of charities such as Bristol Outreach Service for the Homeless
03:01 are impacted over the winter months.
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