The Bus Shelter Kent Community Hub has been helping those in desperate need in Swale for years but could soon be homeless itself after a decision was taken to close its base at Phoenix House. Here Tony Cooper, the charity's founder, discusses the impact.
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00:00 Phoenix House is a community hub where people can come in here, they can get a
00:07 breakfast, they can get a hot meal, they can get food parcels, they can get, they
00:13 can come in here and get clothing. We have a clothes bank. We also have a
00:19 community kitchen where people can come in and take fresh food off the table and
00:25 out the fridges. I'm hoping that KCC have a change of heart and work with us to
00:34 either purchase the building so that we can build a brand new building for the
00:40 community or they allow us to build, rebuild this, repair this one just to
00:50 keep it here just so that we can keep going. I don't know when this is going to
00:54 end where people are going to not need food parcels and not need a hot meal. I'd
00:59 hate to think it would be like not to have a meal when you're hungry.
01:05 As I said, within 15 minutes of us saying we were closed on Tuesday last week, we
01:16 had had reports of people going into the pie street and stealing from the shops.
01:23 That's got to stop and how that's got to stop is by continuing providing the
01:31 service that we do.