Sid Williams

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Today in Focus · Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping? · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

learning to budget, learning to cook.

But it's tailored to each person, because sometimes we've had people who are like a chef, so teaching them to cook could be a bit patronizing.

So what we've realized over the years is the more fun activities you do, the more people feel human again, because a lot of their meetings are very stressful.

Won't you get this housing?

Won't you get to see your kids again?

You know, heavy stuff.

But then just to play football or table tennis or, you know, make pancakes together or watch a film, it's like, oh, it doesn't really matter if I win or lose.

You know, it's just about being.

And so that's really important.

Yeah, good question.

So we are only taking people who are homeless at the point of application.

This isn't open to the general public.

It's open to homeless men.

So we've actually launched a very, very similar project hidden elsewhere in Greater Manchester last week.

for women but it's not on our website it's not publicized it's not in the media even though it's just as great a story because we have to protect our women some women who are homeless are fleeing an abuser the last thing we want to do is go embassy is not for everyone they interview each potential resident to ensure that they're really serious about getting into work and living independently they don't accept people with drug or alcohol problems either

Yeah, and that is because when you walk down the street and see somebody who is obviously homeless or begging, they may well be, but you'll have walked past ten other people that you didn't realise were homeless because they look like you, and they weren't sat on the street corner, they were moving around, so...

I don't think we've... How many people have we helped so far?

It's about 150 people.

Not a single one was ever begging.

So that's interesting, isn't it?

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