00:00Good morning, how can we be of service to you, to you, to you, to you, yes?
00:09Hello, nice to see you.
00:11Thank you for coming all the way down.
00:13Well, we've left the bar to run up here.
00:24How are you? Nice to see you again.
00:26Former team.
00:28How are you?
00:31Nice to meet you.
00:33Very nice to meet you.
00:35Sometimes I feel it takes the visibility of it.
00:37You deal with this every day.
00:39You're in the weeds, every day having to fight this.
00:41Lots of businesses, organisations, who care about it but don't know where to start.
00:49And you help get people involved with the University of Sunderland as well.
00:52Absolutely, yeah.
00:53How has Homewards helped those relationships?
00:57Who wants to start?
01:14For me, it's fantastic to be back in Lambeth, where a year ago, I can't believe,
01:18we launched Homewards and began our journey of working together
01:21to demonstrate that it is possible to end homelessness.
01:25Homelessness is a complex societal issue
01:28and one that touches the lives of far too many people in our society.
01:32However, I truly believe that it can be ended.
01:35I created Homewards because I wanted us to look at the issue of homelessness
01:39through a different lens.
01:41To inspire a movement to prevent people from ever experiencing homelessness
01:45in the first place.
01:47I know this will take a huge effort
01:49and I know that demonstrating that homelessness is not an inevitable part of our society
01:54will take time.
01:56I have, though, been struck by the scale of the work
01:58that has been carried out since the launch of Homewards
02:01and I hope it is a powerful reminder to everyone
02:04of what can be achieved when we work together towards a shared goal.
02:08Over the past 12 months, across our six locations,
02:11an incredible amount of work has been done
02:13to build the foundations for success.
02:16Coalitions have been built,
02:18bringing together over 500 individuals and organisations
02:22who are setting ambitious priorities
02:24and co-developing new ways of addressing homelessness
02:27that are local, relevant and collaborative,
02:30something that has never been done before on this scale.
02:3311 industry-leading companies have joined our mission,
02:37providing in-kind support and expertise to support our six locations.
02:42To them, I say thank you.
02:44To those who are not yet involved, I urge you to come and join us on this journey.
02:49Already a pipeline of nearly 100 homes is being established
02:51through the innovative housing projects,
02:53which will be developed in each location
02:55and, believe me, my ambitions alone mean there will be so many more.
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