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Name: | Terry Braithwaite |
Age: | 21 |
Year of the Fix: | 2013 |
Location: | Kendal |
Campaign: | Providing support for homeless youth |
I became homeless when I was 16 and slept rough for about three and a half months.
I felt scared, worried, depressed and frightened because it was my first time being on the streets.
It was cold, wet and damp - nobody wanted to hang around with me because I was homeless.
But with the help of my friends, I was able to find housing at sheltered accommodation.
The sheltered housing supported me through thick and thin, so I want to give back and help them.
I’m working with Fixers to create a communal area there, so people can chill out and socialise and just get to know each other.
Thank you to Dean White and Stacey Houlsworth for helping me with this Fix.
The drop-in centre, providing advice, advocacy and help for those who are homeless, support my Fixers project.
Penny Severn from the centre also provided an interview for my broadcast story, shown on ITV Granada Reports and ITV News Lookaround.
March 2014
Impact Housing held an awards evening to recognise the positive community work their tenants have done.
I was delighted to receive a 'Fixers Award' for my project to transform an old room into a communal lounge in the supported housing complex where I live.
Fixer Terry Braithwaite alongside Fixers Young Person's Coordinator, Sharon Jackson
October 2013
The room is completed and people are already enthusiastic about using it:
'I think it will be good to do something like watch a film in there. It will be good for the new people, because when you first move in you don't know anyone and it's scary. It's good to have somewhere to sit with people and not have to have them round your flat.'
'It's nice! Well done Terry!'
'I'll definitely come in and use it now that it's finished. We'll have to start doing stuff in here.'
Ben Simms
Timothy Cranfield
Meghann
'Ben'
Jade Kingdom
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Ethan Mcinally
Olivia G
Jo Quinn
Hannah Baker
Tilly and Bella
Sam Barakat
Becky
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Chelsie Brown
'Kate'
Shano
Becky Thorn
Mason Latey
Jack H
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Alexandra Garrick