A bench is not a bed.

As Founder of Primera Corporation, CEO of London Heritage Quarter and as Chair of Passage Trading Services, I pledge to continue to provide support to organisations working in London to end rough sleeping.

My pledge is to keep on volunteering with the Rapid Response team. I go out on an outreach shift with them every month with one of the experienced workers. We go out by car to look for those people sleeping rough who the team have been alerted to through StreetLink. We don’t always find them, but when we do and we’re able to take them to a safe, warm place, I go home feeling happy that I made the effort.

At Forest Churches Emergency Shelter we have been offering winter night shelter and drop in services since 2009. Our pledge for 2023/4 is to offer emergency places to sleep for 50-60 guests and to provide drop-in services for 160-180 people.

We at Changing Lives pledge to continue to work with and offer accommodation to some of the most vulnerable rough sleepers in and around Westminster.

At Unseen Tours, we pledge to continue training people with lived experience of homelessness to curate tours of London in which they can share their own lived experience with locals and visitors alike, to provide a unique perspective of the city, and increase understanding of homelessness as a result.

We will use our website and social media channels to encourage people to have conversations with people who are homeless. We have just launched a video that outlines a simple 5 Step approach that can be viewed in the 'How you can help' section of https://hopeworldwide.org.uk/homeless-services/