Paul Gill
Trustee

My first contact with homeless people was in the 70’s and 80’s when I worked at a Church in Birmingham city centre which was surrounded by open air markets. Homeless men and women would come into the Church desperate for help and advice. Jimmy was one of them, street homeless for years. We got him into a night shelter and eventually into a permanent flat where he happily lived out his days. I have been involved with the homeless ever since. It runs in the family, our son Nick met his wife while they were both working at The Simon Centre in London, an independent charity for the homeless.