Simon Squibb

It's just your mental health strain.

I don't think people understand.

That is part of it.

I had every single homeless experience you can imagine.

And it was only eight weeks I was homeless for.

Only recently I talk about the homeless part because institutional homelessness is very different to the experience that I had.

And I did get help in the end.

I stayed at friends' houses and stuff.

So it wasn't the extreme homelessness that we see.

Do you know, when I was homeless in that time, there was 21,000 homeless people.

Today, in Britain, registered, so there's a lot of unregistered,

over 300,000 people are homeless.

Wow.

Which is insane.

That should not be happening.

And then there's another category of homelessness, which is like you don't have a home, so a lot of kids are homeless because they don't have a fixed place where they're actually allowed to stay.

Or they're living in temporary accommodation

so there is a term that is a bit broad but I got out of it through like no choice I just started a company and it sounds a bit bizarre but I started a gardening company because I couldn't get a job because I was 15 and I didn't have an address and I didn't have a national insurance number I went to social services and they told me to sod off they're the only two things school taught me to do by the way get a job couldn't get one

And then go to social services, told me to start off.

So this thing happened to me.