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True or false?. Hands on your head for false. Hands up for true. Last person standing wins a prize!. True or false?. Homelessness can happen to anyone. True. We’ve had all sorts of people from all different backgrounds use our services. True or false?.
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True or false? Hands on your head for false Hands up for true Last person standing wins a prize!
True or false? Homelessness can happen to anyone
True We’ve had all sorts of people from all different backgrounds use our services
True or false? All people who are homeless live on the street
False People who live in their cars, sofa-surf are also homeless. We also help lots of people who live in bad living conditions
True or false? Nationally the number of homeless people is increasing
True Between the end of 2017 and 2018 the national number of homeless has increased by 4% to 320,000 Without our services, it’s estimated that the rough sleeper count for Worthing would be around 50
True or false? More men than women are homeless
True Around 75% of the people using our services are men
True or false? Rough sleeping is only bad in the winter
False Rough sleeping is bad all year round, lots of people get sunburnt and dehydrated in the summer
True or false? Homeless people just need to get a job
False We see people who still have jobs using our services.
True or false? 1/10 people will experience homelessness at some point in their life
True 1/10 people will experience homelessness directly at some point in their life
True or false? Turning Tides helped over 450 each month in 2018
True Turning Tides helped on average 500 people each month!
True or false? There are more than 20 rough sleepers in Worthing
True We know that currently there are 24 people using our services who are sleeping rough
True or false? Turning Tides has to raise over ½ million pounds each year to keep their services running
True The team of 3 Community Fundraisers have to raise ½ million each year. This is expected to go up a lot this year!
True or false? Turning Tides has 100 volunteers who help them
False We’re lucky enough to have 300 volunteers!!
True of false? Turning Tides can house 170 people at any one time across their accommodations
True We have 16 houses, which range from housing 4-40 people in, across Worthing, Littlehampton, East Grinstead and Horsham We also have 3 Community Hubs in Worthing, Littlehampton and Horsham
True or false? On an average Monday, we make 50 breakfasts
False We make over 70 breakfasts on Monday’s for people who use our Community Hubs
True or false? On average somebody who’s living on the streets doesn’t live to 50
True The average life expectancy of somebody living on the streets is 47.
True or false? There is something you can do to help the homeless
True You can do lots to help – get involved in a fundraiser or organise your own to help support homeless people through Turning Tides