Once every two to three weeks the company director has gone into Central London by Goodge Street station towards Tottenham Court Road with mini bags of toiletries. This area has a prominent homeless community. The company director has approached individuals either in sleeping bags or tents and given out personal hygiene bags to these street homeless individuals who sleep outside the Heal’s building or on the other side of the road. These bags include a flannel, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant and shower gel. We have also conducted activities to benefit the local community by supporting charities that undertake similar work and whom have the same mission. Specifically, we have donated up to 100 kilograms of rice to Acton Homeless Concern to support the work that they are doing within the local homeless community.

The company’s stakeholders are the homeless community where we deliver the company’s activities and the company director has engaged street homeless people to consult them on how we can improve our services. It was the result of consultation that we changed our primary service from delivering food to providing personal hygiene support. Our stakeholders made us aware that their were other charities providing food provision in the local area but there was no support in accessing toiletries etc. As a result of this consultation we set up the personal hygiene project. This project involved the company director engaging members of the homeless community to handout toiletries and other information about where they could access showering facilities (e.g., the name and address of the nearest church etc). We collated information for a homeless person’s pack that includes an outline of the legislation regarding individual rights when contacting local authorities for support and the requirements for being considered for temporary housing. This also includes the contact details of other social enterprises and charities who work with the street homeless and local churches that they can access for food and personal hygiene facilities. On occasion the director of the company has engaged in additional work beyond the scope of our main activities as a result of consultation with the street homeless. For example, there have been cases where a street homeless person experienced difficulty accessing services because they were a foreign national and had no proof of identity. On one such occasion the company director booked an appointment at the Polish embassy through the online portal for a young polish man who had been released from Wandsworth prison onto the streets. He had been street homeless for some time and clearly wanted help but did not know how or where to access services. He had no proof of identity or evidence of right to remain in the UK. The director of the company assisted the client by paying for his travel to the embassy near St Paul’s to obtain a temporary passport which would enable him to access services easier as well as buying him an oyster card for future travel.

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