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Gary Davidge - How To Tackle Addiction, Mental Health & Homelessness | London Real

London Real

Brian Rose

Investing, Business, Technology

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Gary Davidge began managing Spitalfields Crypt Trust's homeless drop-in centre in 2010. Since then Gary has introduced new projects to the drop-in including a pre-abstinence group, art and IT classes. Previously he worked as a carpenter and with refugees in Greece.

Thanksgiving Dinner in London

Homelessness is something that many of us see in cities all the time, yet most of us don't really understand it. This is why I took my entire team at London Real down to a drop-in homeless centre to serve over 100 homeless people Thanksgiving Dinner.

When we were down there helping out I met Gary Davidge. The manager of a homeless drop-in centre of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust, in Shoreditch, London, Gary is on the ground with these folks. He gets to know their personal lives, and he taught me so much about what actually goes on in the streets.

Helping the homeless

Every day Gary works hands-on helping the homeless community, serving some 6,000 meals to over 500 people last year. In the past decade he has introduced pre-abstinence groups and education programmes, and in the next five years plans to launch specific programs for women and addiction recovery.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Two people every day are dying in Britain through homeless on the street.

0:05.0

There's no minute's silence, there's no talking in the newspaper, nothing, you know.

0:10.0

The report says that the number of people sleeping on the streets up by 134%.

0:15.0

The biggest key thing to try to change homelessness is to get as many people aware of the whole situation

0:21.4

in the first place. A lot of people that I have experienced within the job in, I've never

0:26.2

had a life that I would call a life. The government doesn't seem to understand the problem

0:30.5

or even measure it. Too much of a high percentage of our homeless people have the three

0:35.8

strands. They have the homelessness, the mental health, and the addiction.

0:40.3

You can find a hopelessness in that.

0:46.3

That's what we don't want.

0:47.3

We're here to be helping encourage these guys.

0:50.3

Tell me about you, man.

0:52.3

You've been doing this for nine years, you know?

0:54.5

The guys like you, they trust you, they know you.

0:57.1

How do you keep doing this?

0:58.5

I'm doing it because I've lost two cousins, two addictions.

1:05.2

My last one was a year before last.

1:07.7

He was my closest cousin that I had.

1:10.7

Just the addiction was too much for him.

1:15.6

I have no doubt that anybody can change.

1:18.6

And when I hear that Sanzo is doing this or doing that, I'm encouraged.

1:21.6

That encourages me.

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