I started work at 14 and am a qualified cobbler, locksmith, shoe repairer, key cutter🔑, alterations, I can cook, clean, I’ve done chef 👨🍳 work at the Rainforest Cafe that used to be in the Trafford Centre, I can build, bricklay, plaster, woodwork, gardening, done courses in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and also Safeguarding Children, NCFE Level 2 in preparing to work in adult social care, I’ve all my health and safety certificates too, I’m also qualified in industrial cleaning too, sowing and garments, First Aid from the Football Association, I’ve had my own business, I’ve worked alongside Probation services, I’ve also been on probation too. I’ve been to prison, I’ve also set up groups to help those in prison or being released from prison and to help their struggling families too.
I’ve also worked alongside Shelter and many other organisations, I’ve also setup many projects and organisations or at least been a part of it in some way or another, I’ve worked in many industries including shit jobs like order picking and packing, I’ve done groundwork, demolition, construction, I’ve got my CSCS card too. At 13 years of age I was making more money than most adults were and legally too!
If you don’t know anything about forced adoption or forced foster care then you’re very lucky because believe me one day it may come your way or even to a family 👪 member or a close friend. I’ve gained plenty of knowledge through my own lived experience to last me a lifetime that I can now pass on to others so they don’t choose some of the paths that I chose or at least help them get off those very same paths that I once found myself walking along.
Whilst running my own project “Saving People Shelter Project” I’ve manned the phones 📱 📲 ☎️ 24/7 365 days a year which I still do to this very day, trying to help those in need that our own local authority have and are failing, I’ve cooked for 20 vulnerable adults that were residents at the shelters I and my friends created out of nothingness, I’ve cleaned the places top to bottom decorated them, made them livable once again, supported people with mental health, supported people with addiction issues, taken people to appointments, I’ve been an advocate and still am for people on the phones and in person at assessments i.e. mental health, job centre and many more, I’ve wiped people’s backsides, that were too unwell to do it for themselves, I’ve also nursed someone to heaven as he was passing away because he was my good friend and I was there for him and had to watch my friend dying in my arms, I’ve helped people through trauma, people fleeing domestic violence and abuse, I’ve helped immigrants get their leave to remain within the UK 🇬🇧 I’ve got them accommodation and back into work.
On Monday the 12th September 2022 I was chosen to sit on an interview panel with Shelter to choose a candidate for a paid job in a roll for a grow traineeship that will then help others that have experienced similar situations in life, I have then been chosen again on Wednesday the 14th September 2022 to sit on the panel again, I’ve had meetings with the Manchester Mayor, not that they come to anything though because he’s probably never been at ground level before or in such situations as I myself and many others. I’m in 2 books 📚 one called “No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless” by Maeve McClenaghan and another one called “Down and Out : Surviving the Homelessness Crisis” by Daniel Lavelle. I’m also writing ✍️ my own book, which will be published.
I’ve been a ticket 🎟 rep along with also doing promotional work for many different clubs across the North west and the UK 🇬🇧 so as you can see I’ve been about a bit and all this whilst going through Homelessness myself and having the kids taken away from me, being stabbed and dying twice on the way to the hospital, being deliberately ran over by someone, struggling to keep my own head above water, living on the streets, no wonder I once turned to drugs and no wonder I had mental health issues, no wonder I had a nervous breakdown!
No one knows what struggles an individual has had to overcome, which is the reason to speak and treat people with equal respect, but guess what I fucking made it I’m still here and I’m 10 times stronger 💪 then I was before and each day that goes by I become more stronger 💪 but I have compassion, love ❤️, respect, honesty, I’m not judgemental, I give second chances, third chances and so on because we all need them, none of us are perfect, I went down the rabbit 🕳 hole but I do now know how to climb out of that dark hole 🕳 and stay out of it, I survived and now I’m here to teach you how to do the same❤️
Peace Love & Unity 🤝 ✌️
