Adrienne
I’ve been the recipient of being taken into a home as a stranger when I needed help, so I know the difference it can make. “I’ve had quite a colourful life. I came to Hull fleeing an abusive relationship. I had no support system other than my daughter who lived here. In 2014, at the …
Gill
She was petrified, because she was coming to live with a stranger I’d thought about fostering previously, but it felt like a step too far. Then I saw a police documentary, there was a young boy who was 18. They found him sleeping on a bench. They tried desperately to get him in a hostel …
David
There’s a lot of young people who have nowhere to go, and it’s just heartbreaking I started offering Nightstop in July last year. I did that for a short while, but then decided that Supported Lodgings would suit me better – I found it hard asking a young person to leave the house at 8am …
Jordan
“My mum kicked me out when I was 18. The next day I went to the Hinge Centre in Bridlington. I didn’t know it was here, I just googled how to get help. They put me in Nightstop for a couple of days. Then I was offered a room in a hostel. I was there …
Jessie
“My mum died when I was 10. I was born in Scarborough, my mum was Scottish. My dad left when I was two. We weren’t well off, it wasn’t the most financially stable of families. We moved around a lot. But she was great mum, she taught me to look after people, to look after …
Adam
“I had a fall-out with my family and left home when I was 16. I’m 20, I’ve been in SASH for about 2 years. When I was younger I was a bit of a troublemaker, I was very short-tempered. I was permanently excluded from school in Year 9. I had a fall-out with my family …
Lauren
“If I hadn’t come into SASH I don’t think I’d be doing very well if I’m honest. It’s helped me so much. I was living at a hostel in York. It wasn’t a great place to be, but it was a roof over my head. I needed somewhere stable to live without other people where …
Jordan
“When I had to leave my home, I was really excited about SASH because I felt it had a lot of potential. It meant that I could only blame myself if I didn’t succeed. If I was at home and I failed, I could always blame it on the situation I was in. I wasn’t …
Jess
I first heard about SASH when I was 16. I’d left home after falling out with my parents and a Connexions worker at college told me that SASH was an option for me. I was very lucky because I had a family friend that I moved in with instead, so I didn’t need it. But …
Denise and Brian
Denise and Brian live in Selby have been SASH hosts since 2013. We moved in to this house two years ago and it had a spare bedroom, and I wanted it to be for someone to sleep in, not just get filled up with junk! Some time later I saw an article in the paper, …
