Big Issue

I have a Big Issue vendor called Danielle who is from Romania. He is still singing Jingly Bells even though I pointed out to him that xmas is now over. I like supporting the Big Issue people. The 'vulnerably housed' as they call them here.

Here are 3 examples of Vulnerably housed people. How can you not support this cause?

Tom

Tom's life fell apart when his new step dad made him leave home. He sofa surfed (don't you love that???) but his friend's parents would not let him stay for long. Aged just 18 with no source of income he was reduced to sleeping on park benches

He could not sign on because he didn't have an address

(this seems to be a failing in the social security system)

Lee

Lee's parents split when he was very young and his mother brought home a number of men over the years, Lee was abused and neglected. He was learning a trade but his mother sold his equipment to fund her lifestyle. he was forced to leave home after suffering abuse from his mother and the men in her life

Sophie

Sophie's home life was physically and emotionally draining:from a young age she was primary carer for her mother who is clinically depressed and schizophrenic, and her grandmother who was at home during the final stages of cancer. Throughout , she suffered abuse at the hands of her father. She is 17.

Is terrible. So £1.50 a week is not a lot for a magazine.

Bloody hell