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OK,

so stability

and

everything for

about 20 years

of my own business.

Um,

things that I work out.

She disappeared with me. Kids fell on hard times.

Um, the same as what I've said before P three. Support it from

day one.

from stage one, up until where I am now,

Um, they took me to all my PTSD appointments,

trauma appointments,

um,

supported me when I come out of my car

last year.

Um,

basically, it's just been the best thing since

spread. Really?

couldn't

ask for anything else.

How did you first, How did you know to approach P three? Was it

an organisation that you was aware of?

I come,

come away with it, actually, I had a business on the Wesel Road,

and there was it was right opposite new cross hospital,

and it was about 2015. 60.

Um,

P three was rounding up some army people that took camp,

um,

up by Bentley Bridge,

and they give me the cards.

Um, because I was a business in the area

and they said, If you see any rough sleepers,

can you give us a call instead of approaching them?

give us a call and we'll come down and see them.

That's the one about

P three.

So it just stuck in your mind from them. And then when you found yourself in

when I had to leave my house, um,

I broke into, um a derelict

P. Mary Drayton.

Um, I was there for two nights,

and then I just Google P three.

I found the

the number on there. I left a message,

and within about 40 50 minutes, I had, uh,

a bloke called Luke

Morrison.

He called me back

and made an appointment for me,

Um, to come back into Wolverhampton

up to I think it was School Street

in Wolverhampton.

Uh, filled in the paperwork when I come over here, I was stopping

on my mate set,

um, for a few weeks. And then

he sorted me

the place out at, um

three P three,

living at 184,

in Wolverhampton.

They sold the building and then they moved me on to Wellington Road on stage one,

to the hostel there

and again, all the staff was saying, No, I can never had I've I've never had an issue.

And when you

when you say stage one. Like what? What does that mean?

Just just because just for a bit of context. Really? Well, basically, it's,

it's like

it's like an hostel, but it's like an hotel you've got. It's It's

I've I've never been in a in a hostel or anything like that before,

so I don't know what to expect.

I just thought it was just gonna be like,

I don't know, I could

been in jail or something like that. Do you know what I mean?

But when I got there, I had I had my own room. Um,

they supplied me with all toiletries and that

provided food breakfast.

Um,

there was there was

always on site.

Um,

you could get to the office any time, any concerns and that,

and that was it. You had

curfews or you had to

If he wasn't back at a certain time,

which is understandable, like, I mean, for me, it didn't make no difference to me,

but if you let them know that he was going to be back later or something,

then it was fine.

Um,

well,

personally never had

any issues with

the old

process.

What was this stage after that? After being in the hospital?

Well, I was in the I was in the hospital longer, um,

than what

they planned on, um Because I come down with a mystery illness,

Um,

which meant I was hospitalised. Flat

goin.

Um,

I was dead for about 4.5 minutes on a couple of occasions.

Um, I was in hospital for

through. I think it was mid

February last year till the end of march.

Um,

then I come out of hospital.

They did everything they could when I come out.

And then

sage

and stage two,

um,

come and seen

mannel,

who was one of the staff members there to say that,

um, we've got some stage two properties coming up who's,

like, legible and

blah, blah.

And they put me forward.

Um, so they come and spoke to me. They come and showed me this,

Um,

I come in, There was, um

there was a two seater settee, uh, single bed,

Um, fridge, washing machine.

Um, my own bathroom.

Everything was good to go. And since I've been here, I've just

I need everything. So when I am ready to

move on. I've got a couple of operations coming up, so they're not.

They haven't given me no like pressure or anything. Like to

to bid or anything like that. It's not.

That's out of the question at the minute,

Um,

but I've just added that as and when,

like with the finances that I've got to get my own stuff. So when I do get my own place,

I'm just ready just to get a removal van and striding. Look,

I think

you mentioned at the start of stability that that was like a big a big thing for you.

Well, yeah,

cos when you suffer with mental health and

PTSD and everything that you've gone through in the

past like you're remaining having people like dying your

arms and you saving people's lives And this,

that and the other to to go from being a someone to being a nobody.

That's how you feel. Do you know what I mean?

Especially when you ain't got nowhere to go and live.

You ain't got nowhere to call home. So when you've got somewhere to come

to call on which they've provided,

you've got a basin

and really it's only up to you to, like, keep building on it.

You can't keep relying on

P three for and dates. And this that and the other like Do you know what I mean?

It don't work like that. You gotta help yourself.

So that's what I've done since day one. Like since I've been here.

And this is this is what I've got so far. And I'm just gonna keep building on it,

think thinking about building on stuff in the future, Like, what have you got, like,

a goal?

Or like, an energy of mind of what you want?

Where you want to get to?

Yeah. I'm gonna get my business back.

What? What business did you have? And what business do you want?

Well, I'd

I'm trying. I'm I'm I'm versed in

in, um,

surveillance and cause protection and things like that. But the business I set up,

um, was

collaboration with the NHS because they

they were struggling for maintenance on the vehicles and parking and stuff. And

I had an opportunity to

rent a large plot of land.

Um,

so we maintained the vehicles, the ambulances, and

this that and the other and

and created parking spaces for up to 90 NHS stuff.

So that's that's That's what I did. We supported him through

the covid,

um,

supplied boards with

because they

because visitors couldn't get to the wards,

there was a lot of elderly patients and that that were getting toiletries.

So we just donated all our

what income we did have We donated it back in there.

So they had the toiletries and we had them delivered. We did.

We did things with Aldi and things with the

the Royal British Legion and stuff to

deliver all the stuff there.

And, um,

it never really recovered. It's only it's only been like the last

few months where the visit teams like,

started to

get back to normal. So

the outlay on the site and that

just forced me to

forced me to close it

and then cos there's no income and you can't

keep people in to the lifestyle I'm accustomed to.

It takes

strain on relationships and stuff like that. So

that caused the marriage breakdown. And then

from

19th of December 2021

um,

I think he just got too much for

the pair of us. So

she asked me to go. I went

and

that was about it. Really?

And

started scratch

again,

looking into the future. Like what? Do you have an image of what?

Where you're going to be like,

I don't know,

just in the future,

Anything you're looking

forward to,

put

to myself. I'm capable of anything when I

put my

mind

I've just got to get my mind back

in the game, which is coming back.

I I'm working on about

I'd say about 15 to 20% of what I was at the minute, but

it's

10 15% more than what I was.

And do you think, um, how how do you think P three has helped?

in just being there? Even when you're on your own, you can pick the

phone up. I mean, it's like last night.

Um,

I was in the show all of a sudden, all the electrics blew and everything.

It turned out that there was, um it was a faulty radiator.

Um, picked the phone up within an hour.

I had two heaters down the electric route, back up, up and running.

And by nine o'clock this morning,

the engineers was here and the maintenance replaced the radiators and whatever,

and it's all up and running.

And

like I say, there's nothing

I I can't really praise them enough. I I'm just going on my own personal experience.

I just sat it.

But I have seen I have seen people kick off and

and

and go on about some nothing.

And really, if

if someone's got a bad word to say about anything,

I think they've brought the problems on myself.

If it's if you want me to speak

truthfully, you know what I mean.

I've got no reason to know. I mean,

some of the some of the

the grief and that stuff we've gone through

for more off

know me.

think they do a good job.

Because if someone spoke to me the way that they were speaking to them all acted on

rip the head off to be fucking toy

gods.

Yeah,

so I'll be Yeah,

I ain't got no,

honestly, because

bad word,

they're just there. I mean, so

the taxi let me down. Booked a taxi to take me to an appointment in Carrick.

Um,

16th of January.

How far away is

II? I don't know. Wolverhampton at all. So

it's a good

It's a good 1520 more round for

it. Yeah, yeah, it's a long distance.

found my

support

worker and she says she says, II, I can

juggle a couple of appointments round. I'll speak to a colleague

and then within 15 minutes she phoned me back. She says, Yeah, I can pick you up.

We might just be a few minutes late. That's it.

And then and that's happened on a few occasions.

They're always there. You just got to ask for the help. But

at the same time, you've got to

show

you doing so.

Show a

bit of commitment, And

is there anything else that they've helped you with,

or any other anything else that you're involved with that they've

kind of,

Yeah, they're always pushing that

because of my background, and

get into too much detail, my support work and I was all that. But,

um, she's

she's pushed me to get a certain groups

that she thinks that she'll help veteran groups.

Um, things

like that.

but there's never been no pressure. She says this is happening here.

This is happening. Then do you wanna come.

Do you want me to tech here in this area that the options are always there?

Do you know what I mean? Sometimes you feel like you. Sometimes you don't,

but the option's always there. So you've got that side of it as well.

They've invited me to day trips out. They've invited me to Christmas meals. That's

like Christmas just gone.

Um,

they put a

meal on a tech

my road.

Uh, I

fancy

to be. To be fair, I just want to be on my own. So

I gave but they never asked. No questions that they just said You all right?

Checked in and that was it.

Do you think that helps, like, kind of having

the option and the freedom to choose when you do and don't want to get involved with

things? Yeah, because

for me personally, someone

if in my head, I have I'm, like, regimented in certain things.

So if someone tries to take me out that

bubble,

I it ain't happening.

Do you know what I mean? But

they just say

if you wanna go,

if you don't,

you you You don't know a problem. You know where we are. And

you know, if you need, if you need support in anything else or whatever,

if you want to do something else, we'll do what we can Look,

you

see

any issue, anything that

I mean, this is

This is sound for me. You can hear a pin drop. It's nice and it's nice and quiet. But any

anything that does happen,

um, in in the

the only thing that has happened since I've been here,

um,

is obviously the A. So that was sorted straight away.

Um,

there was a crack in the word surface from before, but instead of seeing it,

they just replace the whole lot.

It's you can't you can't honestly, I can't knock him

an anything else that you wanna mention or anything else you wanna talk about.

I'll say,

I think the stuff don't really get the credit that

they deserve, Really?

Um,

just the way that they've treated me. I think they've brought up with a lot.

I think there's I think there's certain sanctions should be put into place

with the way certain what I've seen, especially in Stage one, the hostels,

when there's

when there's people

abusing stuff and stuff like that. Do you know what I mean? And it's like

the staff are putting up with it.

They need to be held accountable one way down the line. Something like that.

Something needs. I think something needs to be put into place. Where?

I don't know. I wouldn't say fines or anything like that because it's all it's.

You know, when you're in an hospital, you ain't got much anyway. But

I don't think it should be took for granted.

You've got a roof over your head when you are helping yourself. You know what I mean?

I've probably put a roof over your head.

And when when you're spitting on someone and E

and blindly,

I don't think they should be there. That's just my personal view.

Anything

else that you

that's

about

it?

Yeah,

well, I'll stop the recording then, If that's OK,

thank you very much.

Yeah,

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Georgia Davenport

Post date

14/03/2024