This is one of your best videos mate. Can’t believe what has happened to this country. None of the people you’ve interviewed look like criminals or bad people, just people who’ve fallen through a collapsing society.
I don’t think the prices of the rentals around there helps. My daughter lives in a student house share in Boscombe with 7 other students. She’s paying £700 rent a month. It’s the same rental price as where we live in London.
@@Secretsanta8 renting a room depending on size should be about 400-900. Also depending on where in Bournemouth it is. Also is it a communal kitchen or a studio flat?.
Dear Joe A huge Thank You for your video and spotlight on the dire homelessness problem in BCP conurbation I am the Volunteer Coordinator for We Are Humans Charity. Andy is the most amazing individual who commits his life and energy to helping the local community We are so proud of him in what he does. We as volunteers are proud to help him achieve his aims and goals. Your video will definitely raise the much needed awareness that we so badly require to help us continue making a difference. Well done to you and again a huge Thank You 🙏🏻
Just purchased some sleeping bags and will bring them and some waterproof womans coats to you next week. Thanks for the amazing work you do. Homeless problem in Bournemouth has always broken my heart, when I lived there I'd pass at least 10 rough sleepers on my way to work, all of them were lovely people, always polite and grateful for any help I could offer, I just wish it was more. I hope a ton of people see this video and help support these charities, they are an absolute lifeline when the councils are failing 😢
i grew up and live in the bpc area and my sister came home to visit me recently and was utterly shocked by the state of Bournemouth in particular, with the state of the town and the homelessness. A good friend of mine who lived in the centre of town moved out a few months ago because of the crime and degenerate behaviour. I grew up here IN THE 70'S, 80'S and 90's and i can tell you Bournemouth has gone from a beautiful clean, safe vibrant place to a cesspit in the last 15 years. The beech is still pretty good but not much else . i miss the old days ! God ! It used to be an amazing place.
i signed up to We Are Humans about 6 months ago with the idea to help make a small difference since then i now make a bid difference . Ive taken over the role as food surplus organiser which means i organise food collections that would otherwise go to landfill. Which is still perfectul good to eat but cant be sold in shops hence it helps to feed the homeless and other vulnerable groups within society more collections are always needed drivers are always needed and general helpers are always needed. Weather its a hour or two it all makes a difference and is so rewarding helping those less fortunate
They can afford drugs and alcohol they can afford food😂you're the reason why this continues and never stops. Instead of going a getting a job and investing in your community. Your just going around in circles
A senior police officer once said to me, they don’t report and register a lot of crimes around BCP because they damage the house prices in the area. It’s a serious issue where the image and value of Sandbanks/Canford Cliffs is more important to the hierarchy of BCP than the safety and security of its people. They rather take care of the billionaire Sandbanks residents than its own people. The area is fucked.
Such a sad turn of events. When I was a kid in East London (in the 40s) our holiday destination was always a day out in Southend. Then after some years we started to go ''Up market'' to Bournemouth!! we felt so privileged to go there, we had ''arrived'', It was so smart, a lovely place, so well taken care of. Now, it is almost a No go area. Such a shame.
I worked in Milford-on- Sea at a holiday park back in the early 80's & met many wonderful families from East London. That was such a Beautiful time to live in & experience the real England! Love from Australia❤🦘
This is Western democracy. It must be remembered that the drug trade in the USA was controlled by the CIA. This is how the CIA made money for its illegal activities. Apparently, it may be similar in Great Britain and the services control trade.
Bournemouth was really lovely back in the 1970s, as others here have said. I had the best holidays here with my family, staying in a lovely bed and breakfast in Christchurch. It was the sort of place you wish you lived full time. We had leisurely days on Bournemouth beach and I remember the warm halcyon days, colourful beach huts and the buzz which came from a lovely busy holiday resort. What a shocking deterioration! State of the nation! 😢
I live in Scotland but my mum's sister lived down there, in the 70s we used to holiday in boscombe and visit pool pottery, the new forest and such, I had not been down for nearly 50 years, but promised it was on my bucket list, so we visited last year and it honestly broke my heart. All those fond memories were gone. If my parents could see it now, it was the fondest and best memories of my childhood and I wanted to retire there, it's still a beautiful place, but the little things like the train that used to turn around on a little circle thing and the shell house are gone, we used to eat breakfast at a little bowling club. It was such an amazing place and the English ppl were the most happy welcoming ppl I have honestly met, as I write this it brings tears to my eyes, what the hell has happened to the UK, even the shops have all gone, replaced by takeaway places, I have dreamt of this place for years and will hold it close to my heart. So sorry in my lifetime that it has to be like this, bless you all. Love and light x
i went to school by the shell house near at st peters school and walk past it daily, was gutted when it was knocked down. i left bournemouth at 20 to travel and settle down in Asia for the last 2 decades, been trying to move back to the uk specifically bournemouth but now not so sure, housing has gone through the roof
I too spent many a happy hour riding the miniature train in Poole park as a child while on holiday in the 70s/80s. We go back to Bournemouth now for day trips and although it's gone massively downhill, it's still a nice place in comparison to many other British places. Some British towns and cities are completely gone, you just don't want to go there full stop and I doubt that they are ever coming back to civilisation.
Seriously one of the most important and eye opening channels on TH-cam. Cannot praise you enough for dedicating your time and resources to spreading awareness and helping others. I’ve personally lost friends and family to addiction and spent time homeless, so to see that strangers do care is truly heartwarming. Thank you for making these videos and sharing your thoughts
Shocking what has happened to Britain since I left for the west of Ireland in 1979. Squatting was usual back then. No homeless on the street, weed was the most common drug, a handful of Pakistanis and great Indian shops. The state of the nation is jaw dropping now. The government must have squandered vast wealth over the years for it to end up in this state, and the drug gangs have monopolized this vision of dystopia.
That’s pretty well summed up Marjorie, but what is of concern to me is that it is going to get an awful lot worse before it could even start to get better. Put your crash helmet on and buckle up. It’s going to be an interesting ride!
It’s not that the government squandered wealth, no doubt the management has been abysmal, but it’s really the super rich. They don’t pay tax. They take profits and buy all our assets, water, rail, everything, and they don’t pay tax. They offshore industry to the cheapest usually Chinese bidder and all our factories and shipyards have gone. We make nothing. They make profit. They buy assets, housing, and prices snd rents rise, food costs rise, wages do not rise. Governments are all in debt and shrinking, in debt to who? The rich. Shrinking why? Because the assets are being or have been sold, to the rich. You’re getting poorer because they are getting richer. Much rich. Inequality is rising faster today than at any time in human history
mass immigration and the financial and social cost is the over riding factor and the numbers are way beyond what we have been told but yur not allowed to say than now
Man this is such a shame. 20 years ago Bournemouth was where I went for a night out. It was safe enough that us teenagers stayed out all night several times and never had any trouble from anyone. Just met great people.
Im 21 now, wild to say that i dont feel it, i still go out clubbbing occasionally, but i keep it close to 5 times a year maX ibr, Cameo is peak, Halo shut down, Havana Is weird, all the good places are filled with people in their 40s+ and a few 18 year olds mixed in, Tbh, unless you go with a friend or two its just not worth it. Stay home lads.
You didn't mention two or the main reasons for the decline of Bournemouth. DWP (Dave Wells) homes/housing partnership. They bought up a lot of properties in areas like Boscome. Made them into bedsits. Rented out at close to the maximum amount people can obtain in housing allowance/benefits. Then they moved in some less than desirsbles with a lot of problems from outside the area. DWP rakes in many millions a year in housing payments from the DWP. The state of some of the properties is very poor so they dont exactly spend the millions of pounds on repairs. Another reason is the number of drug treatment places that opened in Bournemouth in the 80s onwards. Drug treatment programmes don't always work if there's no wrap around support services for people wheb they finish the treatment program. Im sure many people end up staying in Bournemouth after their treatment. I am glad your video is helping BCP pull their finger out as they dont like the bad publicity. We are humans sound like they are doing sone fantastic work. There is some hope for the town.
Your a bit out of date, around 20 years ago the council was told housing benefit amounts would go up, most of those bedsits were turned into studios and flatlets for that but then the amount of available housing benefit went down so everyone has to pay unaffordable top ups, Dave Wells properties is now a council housing provider and responsible for building more new poverty housing then anyone else has, since his son Steve took over they have come a long way!
This was your best video to date. Really great work. It’s a disgrace what is happening in the country and people need to accept that it is not incompetence behind it.
Am watching from Europe but this is very sad to see in the UK. Instead of sending so much aid abroad the government there should be helping it's own people. If crystal has arrived on your streets, god help you! :(
I Grew up on the council estates of Poole and Bournemouth and recently moved back here from the midlands and its only getting worse, but unfortunately its the same everywhere. The only difference is most don't expect it from seaside towns so i think its more of a shock for a lot of people.
Lived in B'mouth 20 years ago, things were reasonable but the signs were there esp. around Boscombe and some parts of Poole. Sad to see the deterioration of a once beautiful area. Much love ❤
@@celynjones4958 yeah i remember it back then, things have really fallen apart since i was younger, i also happen to work in social housing for one of the uk's bigger social housing providers, and the housing situation is truly dire, just like joe and andy had both mentioned in the video.
@@lucyelkins7731 Very true but they go hand-in-hand. Rough areas tend to attract / produce rough people, whereas Bournemouth had one of the highest standards of living in Europe during the 80s and 90s. Prayers for those who do not have a proper bed, food, and support.
Good video. I like your style and how you respect people. There’s a lot of these ‘broken Britain’ genre videos and you stand out and genuinely seem to want to make a difference. Good for you mate.
I agree, a lot of these "Broken Britain" videos are made by grifters with an axe to grind. This guy genuinely highlights the real issues and points a finger in the right direction
The gentleman who sleeps in the toilets has spoken eloquently and kudos to him. Will contribute to this charity for sure. The veterans too have to be looked after for as they have served Queen/King and Country.
I've lived in Bournemouth since 1987, I'm desperately trying to relocate because I'm fed up to the back teeth of having to replace stuff that's been stolen. In the last year my work van has been broken into 3 times costing me thousands in lost income, and my home has been broken into and everything of value stolen twice, the second time the thieving bastards took the opportunity to seriously injure my cat by kicking her down the stairs and stomping on her as she tried to run from them. BCP council aren't fit for purpose and Dorset police simply don't have the manpower to deal with the amount of criminality in the town.
I’ve lived in Bournemouth for over thirty years and would like to move but don’t know where. My daughter lives in Morden and that’s even worse. I moved here from Lancashire and it was a s**thole then so God knows what it would be like now.
Proper chuffed this video popped up in my youtube recommendations! Watched it straight away and hit that subscribe button without a second thought. Content like this is proper eye opening. Cheers for all your hard work Joe!
I lived in Bournemouth/Bascombe in the early 80's, & homelessness & drugs were unheard of! I have many great memories of that time from Wareham to Milford-on-Sea. This doesn't even look like the same place. Leaving veterens who served their country to live on the streets is a Disgrace! Wake up people around the world; what everyone seems to have fogotten is that these government criminals "Work For Us" not the other way around! Things will not change, but only get worse if we continue with our eyes wide shut! Excellent work Joe as always❤👍
@@riseabovelive Boscombe used to be one of the richest and most glamorous places in the area..... It mostly went down hill since David Wells took over it and surrounding areas and advertising in liverpool for his housing ventures mainly housing people on benefits and advertising in liverpool... "why claim the doll in liverpool when you can do it in sunny side Bournemouth?".... Thats why there is so many down there!
@jsouto77 100% you are right about Dave Wells... not so sure it used to be that upmarket though... my family has lived down here for generations and my mum said even back in the 60's when she grew up Boscombe had a reputation of being full of wierdos and drug users
@@riseabovelive If you read its history and look at old (albeit very old) pictures, it used to be a nice upmarket place... you can tel if you go into the old part of the shopping centre by how ornate it is. I dont know about back in the sixties as it's before my time but we all know that the 60'sand 70's were a bit wild with weird and wonderfull people, mostly by nature and weed was the main thing unlike now but its an evolution I suppose. Social housing isn't going to fix the problem unfortunately since Boscombe is living proof of this imho.
Joe, your videos are so important, this one was SO eye opening and touching. Thank YOU for the time and energy you put in. You have a lovely nature, people open up to you. Such good response to this video, people being housed, put in a hotel. What an amazing charity headed by a superb human being.
Really good reporting of how Real life is passing by in Towns and places that most of the country are unaware of these social, economical and drug problems.
If you have to sleep in the toilets, leave them CLEANER than you found them. I used to have a bottle of cleaning spray and a couple of cloths and I used to stay in a disabled toilet that used to be kept locked. I chatted to the cleaner and every night I’d meet them by the toilets, help them clean the male and female toilets and then they would leave the disabled toilet for me to stay in. We did this for months until another couple came to town, they saw me going into that toilet an wanted it for themselves. So the next night, just after the cleaner had left someone knocked on the door and, presuming it was the cleaner, I opened the door and was badly beaten by the couple… they claimed the toilet, stayed 1 night and the toilet was once again locked. That was the end of my sleeping in toilets! ✌🏻🇬🇧
Fantastic work you are doing Sir! A citizen reporter/journalist bringing the truth to us all, The amateur broadcasters on TH-cam doing this work put the established and institutional media to shame. This is true free speech, long may it live.
Thank god there is good people in this country that are helping people that have been let down by a broken system and government..cheers joe for making these videos they are hard to watch but hopefully raise awareness to how many people in the uk are living in poverty and crysis
god bless ya lad, really appreciate the fact you let people tell their stories instead of trying to do it for them. andrew has a heart of gold and the world needs more people like him. i can only hope to be as helpful & kind as he is one day.
Ive lived in Bournemouth all my life. It has been destroyed. Its an absolute dive. The services are poor. BCP say they dont have moneywhich is why services are awful. Bunch of crooks. Thanks for highlighting this.
Its a corrupt town now. People need help obviously but the people that make all the decisions have "rules" and "policies" to stick by. At this point whats the point of even abiding by the law if this is what awaits all of us if we stay here. If police aren't capable of helping us why not just help ourselves. This is a circus.
Lived in Bournemouth for 20 years. Its definitely got worse. It’s all related to the removal of - social services - mental health assistance - no social housing And also Boscombe is the UK number 1 drug rehab area, which brings in more people with problems. It’s a terrible combination. That’s why we have a problem Good work to Andy @ we are humans
What are you talking about the socal services are very present preying on the children! Fucking children traffickers and pedophiles lurking in that department
By design. What people should be asking is who are the people that are forcing this on us and why. I believe it's a certain religion with history of doing this dating back 2000 years. You're not allowed to even look at these people without being called a certain faux pa's word. They're in charge of all the institutions and they own everything and everyone that can be owned 14:34
All problems lead to the government policies biggest destroyer is mass movement to this tiny island ever increasing, manufacturing, millions of jobs going abroad,as millions more arrive from abroad,then you get liberal policies and globalisation and pc wokism
@ 100% agree. Q; How many of them are coming here to work? A; None,as everything is being made so comfortable for them that they won’t need too! Whilst in the meantime what happens to situations of the people like Joe has highlighted in this excellent blog? Sweet FA!
I've been homeless2in Bournemouth four times in seven years and am currently homeless without charities including this plus BH1 project and st mungos I would not be here now, they are truly invaluable and deserve so much support.
I travelled through Bournemouth and Poole a year ago. I was shocked to see all this. Love that lady on the chair on the pavement. What a nicely spoken and kind hearted lady she is. ❤ Thanks for the video.
Spent a few days in Bournemouth in September 2003. Weather was glorious, beach was glorious and my bed and breakfast was charming and on the cliff above the sea! I explored the city and Christchurch and loved every moment of my time there. For an Australian with a love of all things British it was an absolutely wonderful time and as a single woman travelling, I felt very safe! This is very sad to see what’s happened in 20 years.
Another excellent documentary Joe. I was heartened to hear that some help has been forthcoming due to your filming . People like the man who runs WAH are the ones who should be given Kings birthday awards and titles. In my humble opinion the knighthoods should go to volunteers.
Im a single dad and "bcp council" owed my son and I a duty of care yet they evicted us from the temporary accomodation they allocated us whilst he was doing his GCSE exams claiming we didnt use enough energy and that there was nothing I could do about it despite having evidence of what they had done- putting us on the street and we are still on the street. Constant energy usage was not a rule of tenancy and they used this "insane" excuse in order to avoid acknowledging my GP and evict us as my GP was stating that it was not suitable. They claimed we didnt use the property because energy usage was low, despite me having to record evidence that we did and we did not break one single rule of the tenancy agreement. It was our only home , my sons school location and lack of transport meant we ate often before we went back at night. My son also has clubs to attend so far away from where the flat they allocated to us was that this was not avoidable. Thy wanted us in the flat all of the time using energy which is not cheap. Its like they have an agreement with the energy supplier or governemt to use energy and we didnt follow suit. We were responsible for the bill, I paid the enegy company so this was not even their business but they quite literally made it their business. Theyre now forcing us through winter on the street - it's attempted murder, we are literally going to die. Social services almost had my son killed they cant be trusted, it's all on police record too. I've seen first hand what our local council do to people and this county, When I complained the council had me arrested and I was assaulted by the local police in front of my mother and child. They then released me and werent able to prosecute as I wasnt in the wrong. When complaining about the police they said it was common practice to knee people in the legs and threten with pepper spray and also failed to acknowledge that I had complaned at the station. Oh, and Im disabled and now suffering further injuries due to the council. 2 years ago before we trusted the council - we had lives, now we are in ruins. They lie, manipulate, bully , abuse and neglect, and what's more - I recorded every call and have evidence to support it all. I have had to stop the council from causing death to my son already whilst they harboured him, didnt tell me where he was until he had been confronted by a gang with a machette and now they are trying to kill us both through ignorance this winter. They are trying to kill us to get rid of us. They did not provide what is required under duty of care , have ignored my GP, until now, my sons school, my sons GP and their own social services department who they pulled out of the case they caused so their employers could consider "the best legal action against us"????? and then they washed their hands completely to avoid having to acknowledge any GP input. These were their exact words and I have the call recorded along with all calls from the past 2 years, because they started this a long time ago, the lying, isolating and ignoring. I also have these calls backed up. It's literally murder of the people they should be caring for. I couldn't get away with tying to kill anyone, how can they do this? It never used to be like this and I'm not so stupid that I don't know what's going on.
my god mate so sorry to hear this, where are you sleeping at night at the moment? It doesnt make sense, they should of not cared or been happy you're being silly with the heating/electricity bill. Why on earth would they want you to use more power?
@@krisb-travel We are sleeping in a sorned car off the road but it's freezing at night. The worst thing is that we have evidence to show everything that has happenned and they don't even acknowledge it. They have stopped replying to complaint and nobody will defend us. Shelter told us to go back to them as social services have a responsibility to house us under section 17 but when we did they tried to take my son into care giving no other solution, and their slogan is "keeping families together". So here we are .... It's now been 2 years and 2 months , it destroyed my sons exams and I almost lost him completely.
seems they are trying every pretext they can, to get you out of the property, even though we are meant to be officialy to be using less of their very expensive gas electricty to " save the planet " I hope you find a solution.
Let's face it! There isn't such a thing as affordable housing for those on minimum wage, or even for those single people on a UK average wage. The government needs a reality check.
I was made homeless in Bournemouth before covid. It was no fault and the landlord gave me 2 weeks to get out. I begged the council for help, as my child was only 4 at the time, and they were awful. They said if I wanted accommodation, I'd have to be at the housing office for 4 hours a day, putting my job at risk, they wanted my MEDICAL RECORDS and a years worth of bank statements, and to cap it all off, they threw in a hidden fee to stay in a b&b. £84 A. DAY. £84 a day because I had a minimum wage job. They tried to hide the fee from me and get me to sign the paperwork before they revealed that bit. I told them where to go and went to a loan shark instead, and he was way less dodgy and up front with me. Even helped me look for a temporary place to rent while I got on my feet, which is more than the council ever did! Bcp don't care about anyone or even their own reputation
It’s extremely difficult because in general salaries in the south west are exceptionally poor compared to other areas of the country. They think a sea view is enough to compensate whilst housing is sky high. Second home owners are also taking up homes and means the local economy is declining due to depopulation.
This Andy is a Top Top guy and I take my Hat off to him. He needs Honouring for his services to the Homeless People in the BCP area in Dorset although sadly it will probably never happen. God Bless Andy and thank you for all you are doing to try and help these vulnerable people.
My family moved to our former hotel in Boscombe just around the corner from We Are Human in 1978 from the Midlands and it was heaven compared to where we had moved from, clean, attractive, affluent and welcoming. As a former local nurse I have seen it fall into the gutter since the mid 80s & it is heartbreaking. I have just started 'G3' ("Gardening Gives Grace") an informal group for survivors of D&S Ab, plus those with chronic illness or in recovery from addiction where we just sit over a brew and a bake (all free) and chew the fat whilst making up pot plants, seeds, fruit and veg. You'd be amazed how much more positive our members leave after just an hour. One couple (living similarly to your amazing tent couple) even started growing their own earlier this year, only to have it dug up and destroyed by (apparently) council enforcement to force them to move on. It's beyond tragic.
I remember going on a mates holiday to Poole in 2002 and 2003 - Bournemouth was a nice little city and very safe to be in especially as an 18 year old at the time. 20 years later and its gone to hell. So depressing.
I was thinking the same. We used to holiday there in the early 2000s up til 2009. Got engaged and honeymooned there and now I don't ever want to go back. Will remember it as it was. Best beach in Britain for me
In those days it was called the "Agglomeration of Bournemouth and Poole" and now it is the "South Dorset Conurbation". I remember when Bournemouth was in Hampshire and Poole was in Dorset.
I grew up and went to school in Bournemouth, been living abroad for the last 10 years or so. Went back recently and I was shocked at how far it's fallen. Unrecognizable from what it used to be.
@LeyG-s3t I'd start by getting a CELTA teaching certificate and looking for a job abroad teaching English for a couple of years in Vietnam or China. You can live a very good life and earn a good living still in some Chinese cities (not Beijing or Shanghai).
I have lived in the new forest area for 20 years. Bournemouth is 10 miles away from my house. My daughter attends the local college in Bournemouth and I have to pick her up if she’s at college when it gets dark because it’s so dangerous round the lansdowne campus area of the college. It’s awash with addicts shuffling around looking like zombies, homeless people and immigrants. Every week someone is raped or stabbed in the town. It’s not safe. Lots of my friends have also banned their children from going to Bournemouth in the evening because of the number of murders there are now. I have no idea what BCP Council is doing about this but it is well known in the area for being one of the most corrupt councils in England.
As someone who was born here, I don't even understand people coming here for work or school anymore Know many people who went to that college, and one of my favourite bars is just across the road but yea I'd never walk around alone there, and being so close to a lot of clubs and bars (plus being close to the big Asda as the carpark is a homeless and druggy hot spot, seen people smoking heroin just in the carpark during the day once it was mental) I'd say the Poole campus is a little bit better than the Lansdowne one but only a short walk from Poole bus station and high street which is littered with teenage thugs now
Think you must live around where I do. I've lived here all my life, and used to feel safe going to Bournemouth, even as a child and teenager. I'm in my mid-30s now, and it's terrifying after dark. I don't even feel completely safe in broad daylight there any more.
As a lecturer at the Bournemouth Site, I am sorry to hear this. The college has a permanent security presence, who will not let anyone in without a purpose to be there. I wouldn't say the campus is any more dangerous than the rest of town. Or, in fact anywhere else. I was with students and dropped them back on Friday from an educational trip, My colleagues and I stayed with the students till they were all picked up (As a parent myself, I would hope that the schools would do that for my child, so I do the same, right?) for good measure, but there was zero risk, and in fact the only people that came past us were 4 students on their way to the beach and a couple coming back from the beach. - Not typical I know, but far from the horrors the main stream media portray. I can however agree with the town. I went in to town with my parents when they visited recently. After about 8pm, there is a sinister air in the town, and one of unease. Teenagers fighting, drunks sitting in doorways, It just did not feel safe, and was not somewhere I wanted my family to be. - From the cosy club to the BH2 car park we did not see a single police officer patrolling. With constant increases in policing enhancements for the council tax that the PCC requests, it would be nice to be able to walk through my home town and see one or two of them around!
People like Andy shouldn't need to exist, except to enjoy their own happy life, but thank God he and many others like him do exist, true modern day saints.
Born and bread in Bournemouth and watching it turn into a complete sithole over the years is incredibly sad. Sadly I even recognise some of the homeless in your vid. Anyone who lives in Bmth know to avoid Boscombe and most of the town centre as crime is rampant. I moved away because it became so bad. Its upsetting to see the town you grew up in get ruined.
I lived in Bournemouth from 2000 to 2004, now live in a village near swanage. Bournemouth back then was amazing, night life incredible … I picked my daughter up from a club in Bournemouth a few months ago and wow! So sad to see if become what it has… It’s happening all over the uk and can only see it getting a lot worse .
My mum lives on Elmes Avenue, I'm in Charminster, it's still got nice spots, the problem all comes from the gov decreasing housing benefit after telling them to scrap bedsits, this means everyone on benefits has to pay extreme top ups which they cant afford! We need bedsits to come back or housing benefits to increase!
@@EZ-D-FIANT We should also repurpose empty shops in residential areas into affordable accommodation because the retail sector is never going to go back to the levels it was and the empty shops just end up becoming more and more dilapidated.
I'll always help someone less fortunate than myself but that's because I'm not rich or entitled , being working class I've only ever been one pay check away from the streets myself. I still holiday in Bournemouth and in all honesty Boscombe one of my favourite locations as I feel at home with the genuine friendship shown by those I've encountered....less comfortable in the more affluent areas who's inhabitants only concern in life is their bank balance. Brilliant exposure my friend that I will be sharing , this needs a much wider audience 👍
I live close to the WAH charity in the video and I can tell you this is a real problem, not exaggerated and the help from WAH and other charities in the area can't be understated. I was homeless and was given a tent, sleeping mat, bag and food etc. Without people like Andy I wouldn't've survived.
Used to run a gym in Bournemouth, 5 times police came to inform us of s£Xual predators, we had three r@pes and 1 unaliving just outside in the bushes. Hotels are Half way houses for offenders, main one is end of westover road. It’s 100m from one of Europe’s busiest beaches. Nice thinking. BCP care more about cycle lanes (17 million the latest joke project) than they do us Left town and rent my house out. It’s a horrid place now
The cycle comment rings true across the West. Did you ever try something like a boxing gym for the lads to have somewhere to vent their frustration and get motivated and organized?
@@velvetinedrapes4359 Lads dont need a gym now. They have victims to claim no? Most people my age are either road men bussing around with chavs, selling drugs and beating people up for stupid reasons. Seems they get enough action as it is. The ones like me who dont bother going outside anymore or meeting anyone our age vent our frustrations through escapism. Its the most pacifistic way out now. Any other option leads to jail.
BPC is happy to put illegal immigrants in hotels plus give them money, whilst ignoring homeless indigenous people. Some of those rundown hotels could be turned into shelter for the homeless. Sadly, there has been a drug problem in Boscombe since the 1960`s.
Firstly how do you know they are illegal? Secondly the hotels are closed so no longer hotels. The residents have none of the benefits of staying in an actual hotel. Thirdly we need to look at why this is happening in modern society. There is so much unnecessary stress in the modern world it’s hardly surprising we see this sort of thing.
@@nigelfarley814 Illegal migrants are housed in hotels. Legal migrants are self-supporting. The hotels aren't "closed". They're hired by government funded companies to house illegals at the taxpayer's expense. There's a hotel for refugees near me. Free bicycles, two pools (indoor and outdoor), gymnasium, sea views. The world's "unnecessary stress" can't be cured by inviting millions of people to live in the UK.
Great video but you missed so many points, you failed to show the closed shops due to high rents, the missing public toilets that have been removed, the poor roads, how dirty the town is and run down and that Boscombe used to be a very rich area in the 1950's and before. you could of mentioned the Boscombe devil and the reason for the elephant painting above one of the biggest empty shops there which also has a link to major pop & rock groups. the failings of the council by fitting a pedestrian walkway down Boscombe high street causing the local business's to fail, the lack of jobs in the area and there are so many families struggling, no NHS dentists in the area willing to take new clients, there are so many hidden homeless in Bournemouth that no one see's (many years ago I was one of them) a place called the junction helps the younger homeless and WAH seem to be doing a great job, but there is so much more depravity in Bournemouth that you didn't see or mention.
Thanks Joe for a true report on reallity in the "Rich South"! New subscriber from an expat living in Newfoundland. It's not just in UK but here in Canada too, it is such a sad state of affairs. How much is enough for the 1%? The love of money is the root of all evil!
I couldn’t agree more. Why the 1% get tax write offs I’ll never understand. They could quite literally be charged 90% tax and still be perfectly fine on their lifestyles - it baffles me
So sorry to see this. Bournemouth used to be a fun, thriving party town in the 1980s. Also, Poole was very upmarket. Sadly, this appears to be happening all over the UK and with an uncaring government, will only get far worse. There is no such thing as affordable housing. The only people buying so called affordable housing are coming from out of the area who already owned a house. The average wage has not kept up with house prices. I have watched other videos on Bournemouth and they all tell a completely different story. Some of them show it to be good and others, the worst.
I lived in Bournemouth around 2015 and there were a lot of homeless people then. Went back there again a couple years ago and was shocked by how visibly worse it had gotten... it was like The Walking Dead. Homeless people on every bench and in every shop front, groups of men drinking bottles of vodka in broad daylight, even saw a guy inhaling solvents in the middle of the street. More shockingly it's still like a giant holiday camp compared to London...
It's heart breaking. I'm 75 and when I was growing up we used to have holidays in Bournemouth. My sister and I used to spend a lot of time at the ice skating rink. Bournemouth was then a lovely place to visit. It's hard to see what's happened. Thank you Joe for what you're doing.
Well done to all who help and support the homeless. A big thank you and God Bless you for recording this so we can see what’s going on in and around our towns. 😢
I've been living in Bournemouth for my entire life, and it has, 100%, gotten so much worse over the last 10-15 years. It feels so uncomfortable to just go out for a walk during the day because of the direction the area. It's so sad to see such a lovely area take such a devastating turn, but it isn't going to change unless the council actually tries to do something.
the council are not there to do anything for the people /us it is there to satisfy its own needs saleries , corrupt practices and pensions and political agendas.
Great work Joe, we all need to help and support each other now the Government and Local Authorities are discriminating against our own people and you're doing a great service getting the message out there
I see this stuff every single day in Bournemouth. So so sad, been here for 8 years and it's only getting worse. Even my neighbours are trouble makers and druggies. I feel like i'm stuck here and cannot save up enough to move away... There are hardly any decent employment opportunities, I work in a high-end restaurant and had a random guy come in and start verbally harassing and attempting to attack my customers, never seen anything like it!!
I feel so sad at what the government has done to their people and their country. This beautiful country has gone to the dogs. Stay strong people, and don’t let anyone make you feel worthless or small…..because your not ❤ your beautiful
A very good documentary that exposes what is happening not just in Britain but in US towns acoross the country. Do our politicans have no shame. Harriet and I will make a donation to we are humans (Andy) Keep doing the good work Joe. We need you here in the US. All the best mate 👍👍 Jim and Harriet
Of course they have no shame, they see people as tax cattle. Once you view people as expendable cattle there is no shame involved in what has to occur while managing the herd. If you ask them, they will tell you that the herd should consider themselves lucky regarding how well they are treated in England and will show you countless other farms where the cattle are treated much worse.
Great great great episode I love independent reporting like this now because of your video people are being helped and it's thanks to people like you bless you man keep shining a light in the dark 😊
@@JoefishJ you missed the most important part, the biggest organised crime gang in Bournemouth runs out of the town hall, they've dumped a highly lucrative poverty industry in Boscombe and stolen all of the vital regeneration assets including parking for tourists and shoppers. Forcibly changed the economy from tourism, leisure and retail to poverty industry (the over 60 unregulated halfway houses for repeat offenders and addicts bring in over £10million a year) asset stripping and disastrous development while millions disappear on bogus "regeneration".
Thank you for filming this documentary, thank you for letting me know & be aware of situation of homeless,in Bournemouth sending prayers & love, glad I’m in good health & good position, I drink but vary rarely, I was homeless once I know how it feels, it honestly was horrible & I’m grateful that I food, clothes on my back, Roof over my head and income to survive on
I live in Poole and in the last 6 years BCP has seen tons more homeless people and tons of teen gangs that run around and terrorise people. The walk around in daylight with knives in their hands.
This video brought me to tears. I’ve lived in Bournemouth and Poole since the 1960s. Bournemouth and Boscombe were family holiday areas. Now it’s just a cesspit and BCP aren’t doing enough. Heartening though that they took action to house a few just in a week. Keep up the good work. Maybe one day Dorset will be restored to its former glory…somehow i doubt it. But such lovely people you interviewed
This is one of your best videos mate. Can’t believe what has happened to this country. None of the people you’ve interviewed look like criminals or bad people, just people who’ve fallen through a collapsing society.
I glad I did get clean from medications also big pain but if you want to be clean you can just do it
I don’t think the prices of the rentals around there helps. My daughter lives in a student house share in Boscombe with 7 other students. She’s paying £700 rent a month. It’s the same rental price as where we live in London.
@@Secretsanta8students get it cheaper than people other than students.
@@1985matty1985 that was the point I was getting at. If she’s paying £700 for one room, how much rent are they charging.
@@Secretsanta8 renting a room depending on size should be about 400-900. Also depending on where in Bournemouth it is. Also is it a communal kitchen or a studio flat?.
Dear Joe
A huge Thank You for your video and spotlight on the dire homelessness problem in BCP conurbation
I am the Volunteer Coordinator for We Are Humans Charity. Andy is the most amazing individual who commits his life and energy to helping the local community We are so proud of him in what he does. We as volunteers are proud to help him achieve his aims and goals. Your video will definitely raise the much needed awareness that we so badly require to help us continue making a difference.
Well done to you and again a huge Thank You 🙏🏻
I have used the soup run that we are humans do in Bournemouth on the weekends they do great work
Just purchased some sleeping bags and will bring them and some waterproof womans coats to you next week. Thanks for the amazing work you do. Homeless problem in Bournemouth has always broken my heart, when I lived there I'd pass at least 10 rough sleepers on my way to work, all of them were lovely people, always polite and grateful for any help I could offer, I just wish it was more. I hope a ton of people see this video and help support these charities, they are an absolute lifeline when the councils are failing 😢
Wow, Andy is so awake it's unreal, he and you are doing an amazing service to humanity. Karma will prevail..Blessings.
Thank you for helping you are awesome 💗💗💗💗
hi, how do i make a donation
i grew up and live in the bpc area and my sister came home to visit me recently and was utterly shocked by the state of Bournemouth in particular, with the state of the town and the homelessness.
A good friend of mine who lived in the centre of town moved out a few months ago because of the crime and degenerate behaviour.
I grew up here IN THE 70'S, 80'S and 90's and i can tell you Bournemouth has gone from a beautiful clean, safe vibrant place to a cesspit in the last 15 years. The beech is still pretty good but not much else . i miss the old days ! God ! It used to be an amazing place.
I left in 1999 and can't believe what it has become
Agreed. I was visiting often in 90s and 00s, I live closeby. it was an amazing place.
@sue-anneeast9685 I left in 95, live in OZ now. It's good, but NZ is better.
Such a shame what Bournemouth became. What is the reason of this in your opinion?
The Lansdowne resembles Mogadishu.
Or Bradford.
Thankyou for filming this. Thankyou to everyone kind enough to let you film them and document this.
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Great show
i signed up to We Are Humans about 6 months ago with the idea to help make a small difference since then i now make a bid difference . Ive taken over the role as food surplus organiser which means i organise food collections that would otherwise go to landfill. Which is still perfectul good to eat but cant be sold in shops hence it helps to feed the homeless and other vulnerable groups within society more collections are always needed drivers are always needed and general helpers are always needed. Weather its a hour or two it all makes a difference and is so rewarding helping those less fortunate
Gary, you're a good man. God bless you 🙏🏻
bravo sir
The sooner it breaks and fails completely, the sooner it can be replaced hopefully with something better
The system, that is.
They can afford drugs and alcohol they can afford food😂you're the reason why this continues and never stops. Instead of going a getting a job and investing in your community. Your just going around in circles
A senior police officer once said to me, they don’t report and register a lot of crimes around BCP because they damage the house prices in the area. It’s a serious issue where the image and value of Sandbanks/Canford Cliffs is more important to the hierarchy of BCP than the safety and security of its people. They rather take care of the billionaire Sandbanks residents than its own people. The area is fucked.
@@trichromednb …and the general corruption is eye watering!
Do you have to swear
@@idi-mw6ts fuck yeah
Nothing is reported anymore. Nothing makes the news but bashing the British citizens and their proud history.
Agreed. I gave you a detailed reply earlier. It's been deleted in the name of free speech.
Such a sad turn of events. When I was a kid in East London (in the 40s) our holiday destination was always a day out in Southend. Then after some years we started to go ''Up market'' to Bournemouth!! we felt so privileged to go there, we had ''arrived'', It was so smart, a lovely place, so well taken care of. Now, it is almost a No go area. Such a shame.
I used to waitress in the hotels in Bournemouth as a teenager, most are closed now. It really was lovely in its day.
cheaper to go to Spain for two weeks these days.
I worked in Milford-on- Sea at a holiday park back in the early 80's & met many wonderful families from East London. That was such a Beautiful time to live in & experience the real England! Love from Australia❤🦘
This is Western democracy. It must be remembered that the drug trade in the USA was controlled by the CIA. This is how the CIA made money for its illegal activities. Apparently, it may be similar in Great Britain and the services control trade.
Bournemouth was really lovely back in the 1970s, as others here have said. I had the best holidays here with my family, staying in a lovely bed and breakfast in Christchurch. It was the sort of place you wish you lived full time. We had leisurely days on Bournemouth beach and I remember the warm halcyon days, colourful beach huts and the buzz which came from a lovely busy holiday resort. What a shocking deterioration! State of the nation! 😢
I live in Scotland but my mum's sister lived down there, in the 70s we used to holiday in boscombe and visit pool pottery, the new forest and such, I had not been down for nearly 50 years, but promised it was on my bucket list, so we visited last year and it honestly broke my heart. All those fond memories were gone. If my parents could see it now, it was the fondest and best memories of my childhood and I wanted to retire there, it's still a beautiful place, but the little things like the train that used to turn around on a little circle thing and the shell house are gone, we used to eat breakfast at a little bowling club. It was such an amazing place and the English ppl were the most happy welcoming ppl I have honestly met, as I write this it brings tears to my eyes, what the hell has happened to the UK, even the shops have all gone, replaced by takeaway places, I have dreamt of this place for years and will hold it close to my heart. So sorry in my lifetime that it has to be like this, bless you all. Love and light x
i went to school by the shell house near at st peters school and walk past it daily, was gutted when it was knocked down. i left bournemouth at 20 to travel and settle down in Asia for the last 2 decades, been trying to move back to the uk specifically bournemouth but now not so sure, housing has gone through the roof
I don't think you would feel the same if you did to be honest better off in Burnley in my options and still close @@krisb-travel
I too spent many a happy hour riding the miniature train in Poole park as a child while on holiday in the 70s/80s. We go back to Bournemouth now for day trips and although it's gone massively downhill, it's still a nice place in comparison to many other British places. Some British towns and cities are completely gone, you just don't want to go there full stop and I doubt that they are ever coming back to civilisation.
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You mention that we treat animals better then humans.. but pls remember it’s humans that are the cause of the vulnerable and homeless.
Your doing an amazing job raising awareness on a subject that’s become a hush hush no one wants to talk about
Seriously one of the most important and eye opening channels on TH-cam. Cannot praise you enough for dedicating your time and resources to spreading awareness and helping others. I’ve personally lost friends and family to addiction and spent time homeless, so to see that strangers do care is truly heartwarming. Thank you for making these videos and sharing your thoughts
Made my evening reading this!! Thank you very much genuinely means the world to me thank you for your support 🙏
Shocking what has happened to Britain since I left for the west of Ireland in 1979. Squatting was usual back then. No homeless on the street, weed was the most common drug, a handful of Pakistanis and great Indian shops.
The state of the nation is jaw dropping now. The government must have squandered vast wealth over the years for it to end up in this state, and the drug gangs have monopolized this vision of dystopia.
That’s pretty well summed up Marjorie, but what is of concern to me is that it is going to get an awful lot worse before it could even start to get better. Put your crash helmet on and buckle up. It’s going to be an interesting ride!
It’s not that the government squandered wealth, no doubt the management has been abysmal, but it’s really the super rich. They don’t pay tax. They take profits and buy all our assets, water, rail, everything, and they don’t pay tax. They offshore industry to the cheapest usually Chinese bidder and all our factories and shipyards have gone. We make nothing. They make profit. They buy assets, housing, and prices snd rents rise, food costs rise, wages do not rise. Governments are all in debt and shrinking, in debt to who? The rich. Shrinking why? Because the assets are being or have been sold, to the rich. You’re getting poorer because they are getting richer. Much rich. Inequality is rising faster today than at any time in human history
Are you serious? Southern Ireland is worse than England. Sort out your own shit before you start slagging off England.
mass immigration and the financial and social cost is the over riding factor and the numbers are way beyond what we have been told but yur not allowed to say than now
Watch "Europa the last battle" 12h documentary. You are gonna understand what is really going on. Cheers!
Man this is such a shame. 20 years ago Bournemouth was where I went for a night out. It was safe enough that us teenagers stayed out all night several times and never had any trouble from anyone. Just met great people.
Idk if id say bournemouth was safe 20 years ago
Im 21 now, wild to say that i dont feel it, i still go out clubbbing occasionally, but i keep it close to 5 times a year maX ibr, Cameo is peak, Halo shut down, Havana Is weird, all the good places are filled with people in their 40s+ and a few 18 year olds mixed in, Tbh, unless you go with a friend or two its just not worth it. Stay home lads.
You didn't mention two or the main reasons for the decline of Bournemouth. DWP (Dave Wells) homes/housing partnership. They bought up a lot of properties in areas like Boscome. Made them into bedsits. Rented out at close to the maximum amount people can obtain in housing allowance/benefits. Then they moved in some less than desirsbles with a lot of problems from outside the area. DWP rakes in many millions a year in housing payments from the DWP. The state of some of the properties is very poor so they dont exactly spend the millions of pounds on repairs.
Another reason is the number of drug treatment places that opened in Bournemouth in the 80s onwards. Drug treatment programmes don't always work if there's no wrap around support services for people wheb they finish the treatment program. Im sure many people end up staying in Bournemouth after their treatment.
I am glad your video is helping BCP pull their finger out as they dont like the bad publicity. We are humans sound like they are doing sone fantastic work. There is some hope for the town.
DW is definitely part of the decline of the Boscombe area.
Now run by obnoxious stepson, Steve Wells.
and the fact our veterans live on the streets while illegal migrants are housed in hotels.. no wonder the public is angry
Not heard Dave Wells name for 30 years …..
Your a bit out of date, around 20 years ago the council was told housing benefit amounts would go up, most of those bedsits were turned into studios and flatlets for that but then the amount of available housing benefit went down so everyone has to pay unaffordable top ups, Dave Wells properties is now a council housing provider and responsible for building more new poverty housing then anyone else has, since his son Steve took over they have come a long way!
This was your best video to date. Really great work. It’s a disgrace what is happening in the country and people need to accept that it is not incompetence behind it.
Am watching from Europe but this is very sad to see in the UK. Instead of sending so much aid abroad the government there should be helping it's own people. If crystal has arrived on your streets, god help you! :(
What exactly is Crystal? Is it a new drug. Besides Crystal Meth I'm not sure what Cristal is? Does it mean Crystal Meth or is it some different drug?
@@cultfiction3865 of course he means crystal meth
Yes crystal meth ,crystal for short.@@cultfiction3865
Foreign aid are legal bribes. I think the UK should actually tax multi-billion pound, multinational corporations properly.
Crystal Meth / Methamphetamine
I Grew up on the council estates of Poole and Bournemouth and recently moved back here from the midlands and its only getting worse, but unfortunately its the same everywhere. The only difference is most don't expect it from seaside towns so i think its more of a shock for a lot of people.
Lived in B'mouth 20 years ago, things were reasonable but the signs were there esp. around Boscombe and some parts of Poole. Sad to see the deterioration of a once beautiful area. Much love ❤
@@celynjones4958 yeah i remember it back then, things have really fallen apart since i was younger, i also happen to work in social housing for one of the uk's bigger social housing providers, and the housing situation is truly dire, just like joe and andy had both mentioned in the video.
It’s worst in Seaside towns because they’re full of B&B’s, which Councils use to house itinerants.
@@celynjones4958No what's sad is seeing people deteriorating like this!
@@lucyelkins7731 Very true but they go hand-in-hand. Rough areas tend to attract / produce rough people, whereas Bournemouth had one of the highest standards of living in Europe during the 80s and 90s. Prayers for those who do not have a proper bed, food, and support.
Good video. I like your style and how you respect people. There’s a lot of these ‘broken Britain’ genre videos and you stand out and genuinely seem to want to make a difference. Good for you mate.
I agree, a lot of these "Broken Britain" videos are made by grifters with an axe to grind. This guy genuinely highlights the real issues and points a finger in the right direction
You mean " Broken England" as all the videos are about England.
Or do you think England is Britain?
Broken England.
Broken England.
Broken England.
Thankyou for coming and filming Andy and WE ARE HUMAN 🙏
We the people help the people ☕
See you next time
I grew up in Bournemouth and have seen many problems with substance abuse. Thank you for your life saving charity
The gentleman who sleeps in the toilets has spoken eloquently and kudos to him. Will contribute to this charity for sure. The veterans too have to be looked after for as they have served Queen/King and Country.
I've lived in Bournemouth since 1987, I'm desperately trying to relocate because I'm fed up to the back teeth of having to replace stuff that's been stolen. In the last year my work van has been broken into 3 times costing me thousands in lost income, and my home has been broken into and everything of value stolen twice, the second time the thieving bastards took the opportunity to seriously injure my cat by kicking her down the stairs and stomping on her as she tried to run from them.
BCP council aren't fit for purpose and Dorset police simply don't have the manpower to deal with the amount of criminality in the town.
That sounds awful, I hope your cat is ok now
So sorry for your poor Cat.....may their actions return to them sevenfold.
relocate North, seems to be decent once you reach the midlands onwards.
@@tbct4619 My job precludes that option, my employer is based up north, but I'm one of the few mobile engineers that they have down south.
I’ve lived in Bournemouth for over thirty years and would like to move but don’t know where. My daughter lives in Morden and that’s even worse. I moved here from Lancashire and it was a s**thole then so God knows what it would be like now.
That broke me when that lady said, 'a place to be happy in', regarding that tent, bless her, what a lovely lady
Having to live like this while illegals are living it up in hotels free of charge, bloody disgusting.
Proper chuffed this video popped up in my youtube recommendations! Watched it straight away and hit that subscribe button without a second thought. Content like this is proper eye opening. Cheers for all your hard work Joe!
I lived in Bournemouth/Bascombe in the early 80's, & homelessness & drugs were unheard of! I have many great memories of that time from Wareham to Milford-on-Sea. This doesn't even look like the same place. Leaving veterens who served their country to live on the streets is a Disgrace! Wake up people around the world; what everyone seems to have fogotten is that these government criminals "Work For Us" not the other way around! Things will not change, but only get worse if we continue with our eyes wide shut! Excellent work Joe as always❤👍
Utter rubbish Bournemouth was a well known hotspot for Scouse criminals plying their trade
Thats rubbish.... Boscombe has always had a drug and degenerate problem
@@riseabovelive Boscombe used to be one of the richest and most glamorous places in the area..... It mostly went down hill since David Wells took over it and surrounding areas and advertising in liverpool for his housing ventures mainly housing people on benefits and advertising in liverpool... "why claim the doll in liverpool when you can do it in sunny side Bournemouth?".... Thats why there is so many down there!
@jsouto77 100% you are right about Dave Wells... not so sure it used to be that upmarket though... my family has lived down here for generations and my mum said even back in the 60's when she grew up Boscombe had a reputation of being full of wierdos and drug users
@@riseabovelive If you read its history and look at old (albeit very old) pictures, it used to be a nice upmarket place... you can tel if you go into the old part of the shopping centre by how ornate it is. I dont know about back in the sixties as it's before my time but we all know that the 60'sand 70's were a bit wild with weird and wonderfull people, mostly by nature and weed was the main thing unlike now but its an evolution I suppose.
Social housing isn't going to fix the problem unfortunately since Boscombe is living proof of this imho.
Joe, your videos are so important, this one was SO eye opening and touching.
Thank YOU for the time and energy you put in. You have a lovely nature, people open up to you.
Such good response to this video, people being housed, put in a hotel. What an amazing charity headed by a superb human being.
Really good reporting of how Real life is passing by in Towns and places that most of the country are unaware of these social, economical and drug problems.
Time to realise drug problems are caused by archaic drug laws
Appreciate your journalism, really showing the problems in our country and how it’s effecting every major town
If you have to sleep in the toilets, leave them CLEANER than you found them. I used to have a bottle of cleaning spray and a couple of cloths and I used to stay in a disabled toilet that used to be kept locked. I chatted to the cleaner and every night I’d meet them by the toilets, help them clean the male and female toilets and then they would leave the disabled toilet for me to stay in. We did this for months until another couple came to town, they saw me going into that toilet an wanted it for themselves. So the next night, just after the cleaner had left someone knocked on the door and, presuming it was the cleaner, I opened the door and was badly beaten by the couple… they claimed the toilet, stayed 1 night and the toilet was once again locked. That was the end of my sleeping in toilets! ✌🏻🇬🇧
Great documenting of some alarming conditions. Some great characters and your way with them is spot on. All the best, bud.
Fantastic work you are doing Sir! A citizen reporter/journalist bringing the truth to us all,
The amateur broadcasters on TH-cam doing this work put the established and institutional media to shame.
This is true free speech, long may it live.
Thank god there is good people in this country that are helping people that have been let down by a broken system and government..cheers joe for making these videos they are hard to watch but hopefully raise awareness to how many people in the uk are living in poverty and crysis
god bless ya lad, really appreciate the fact you let people tell their stories instead of trying to do it for them. andrew has a heart of gold and the world needs more people like him. i can only hope to be as helpful & kind as he is one day.
Thank you for your kind words, I couldn't agree more about Andy.
He is a real inspiration 🙏
Ive lived in Bournemouth all my life. It has been destroyed. Its an absolute dive. The services are poor. BCP say they dont have moneywhich is why services are awful. Bunch of crooks. Thanks for highlighting this.
The UK still has billions of pounds to give to Ukraine!
Its a corrupt town now. People need help obviously but the people that make all the decisions have "rules" and "policies" to stick by. At this point whats the point of even abiding by the law if this is what awaits all of us if we stay here. If police aren't capable of helping us why not just help ourselves. This is a circus.
Amazing, Andy and his team have helped me so much. Glad they are around
Lived in Bournemouth for 20 years. Its definitely got worse. It’s all related to the removal of
- social services
- mental health assistance
- no social housing
And also Boscombe is the UK number 1 drug rehab area, which brings in more people with problems.
It’s a terrible combination.
That’s why we have a problem
Good work to Andy @ we are humans
What are you talking about the socal services are very present preying on the children! Fucking children traffickers and pedophiles lurking in that department
Why would they remove that?
@ last Government massively under invested in these services unfortunately
Only going to get worse as the country is endlessly pumped full of more people.
By design. What people should be asking is who are the people that are forcing this on us and why. I believe it's a certain religion with history of doing this dating back 2000 years. You're not allowed to even look at these people without being called a certain faux pa's word. They're in charge of all the institutions and they own everything and everyone that can be owned 14:34
All problems lead to the government policies biggest destroyer is mass movement to this tiny island ever increasing, manufacturing, millions of jobs going abroad,as millions more arrive from abroad,then you get liberal policies and globalisation and pc wokism
@ 100% agree. Q; How many of them are coming here to work? A; None,as everything is being made so comfortable for them that they won’t need too!
Whilst in the meantime what happens to situations of the people like Joe has highlighted in this excellent blog? Sweet FA!
I live down the street from this organisation. Going to go and donate some stuff tomorrow. Thank you ☺️❤️
I've been homeless2in Bournemouth four times in seven years and am currently homeless without charities including this plus BH1 project and st mungos I would not be here now, they are truly invaluable and deserve so much support.
I travelled through Bournemouth and Poole a year ago. I was shocked to see all this.
Love that lady on the chair on the pavement. What a nicely spoken and kind hearted lady she is. ❤
Thanks for the video.
Spent a few days in Bournemouth in September 2003. Weather was glorious, beach was glorious and my bed and breakfast was charming and on the cliff above the sea! I explored the city and Christchurch and loved every moment of my time there. For an Australian with a love of all things British it was an absolutely wonderful time and as a single woman travelling, I felt very safe! This is very sad to see what’s happened in 20 years.
Another excellent documentary Joe. I was heartened to hear that some help has been forthcoming due to your filming . People like the man who runs WAH are the ones who should be given Kings birthday awards and titles. In my humble opinion the knighthoods should go to volunteers.
@@debshipard1664 Well said!👏🏻
Im a single dad and "bcp council" owed my son and I a duty of care yet they evicted us from the temporary accomodation they allocated us whilst he was doing his GCSE exams claiming we didnt use enough energy and that there was nothing I could do about it despite having evidence of what they had done- putting us on the street and we are still on the street.
Constant energy usage was not a rule of tenancy and they used this "insane" excuse in order to avoid acknowledging my GP and evict us as my GP was stating that it was not suitable.
They claimed we didnt use the property because energy usage was low, despite me having to record evidence that we did and we did not break one single rule of the tenancy agreement.
It was our only home , my sons school location and lack of transport meant we ate often before we went back at night.
My son also has clubs to attend so far away from where the flat they allocated to us was that this was not avoidable.
Thy wanted us in the flat all of the time using energy which is not cheap.
Its like they have an agreement with the energy supplier or governemt to use energy and we didnt follow suit.
We were responsible for the bill, I paid the enegy company so this was not even their business but they quite literally made it their business.
Theyre now forcing us through winter on the street - it's attempted murder, we are literally going to die.
Social services almost had my son killed they cant be trusted, it's all on police record too.
I've seen first hand what our local council do to people and this county,
When I complained the council had me arrested and I was assaulted by the local police in front of my mother and child.
They then released me and werent able to prosecute as I wasnt in the wrong.
When complaining about the police they said it was common practice to knee people in the legs and threten with pepper spray and also failed to acknowledge that I had complaned at the station.
Oh, and Im disabled and now suffering further injuries due to the council.
2 years ago before we trusted the council - we had lives, now we are in ruins.
They lie, manipulate, bully , abuse and neglect, and what's more - I recorded every call and have evidence to support it all.
I have had to stop the council from causing death to my son already whilst they harboured him, didnt tell me where he was until he had been confronted by a gang with a machette and now they are trying to kill us both through ignorance this winter.
They are trying to kill us to get rid of us.
They did not provide what is required under duty of care , have ignored my GP, until now, my sons school, my sons GP and their own social services department who they pulled out of the case they caused so their employers could consider "the best legal action against us"????? and then they washed their hands completely to avoid having to acknowledge any GP input.
These were their exact words and I have the call recorded along with all calls from the past 2 years, because they started this a long time ago, the lying, isolating and ignoring.
I also have these calls backed up.
It's literally murder of the people they should be caring for.
I couldn't get away with tying to kill anyone, how can they do this? It never used to be like this and I'm not so stupid that I don't know what's going on.
my god mate so sorry to hear this, where are you sleeping at night at the moment? It doesnt make sense, they should of not cared or been happy you're being silly with the heating/electricity bill. Why on earth would they want you to use more power?
@@krisb-travel We are sleeping in a sorned car off the road but it's freezing at night.
The worst thing is that we have evidence to show everything that has happenned and they don't even acknowledge it.
They have stopped replying to complaint and nobody will defend us. Shelter told us to go back to them as social services have a responsibility to house us under section 17 but when we did they tried to take my son into care giving no other solution, and their slogan is "keeping families together".
So here we are ....
It's now been 2 years and 2 months , it destroyed my sons exams and I almost lost him completely.
seems they are trying every pretext they can, to get you out of the property, even though we are meant to be officialy to be using less of their very expensive
gas electricty to " save the planet " I hope you find a solution.
@@krislees976 It seems to me that they need to be investigated by Panorama or the likes of!
Great channel. You show how real, everyday folk live in the UK. Excellent content.
Let's face it! There isn't such a thing as affordable housing for those on minimum wage, or even for those single people on a UK average wage.
The government needs a reality check.
The government needs taking to the high courts for crimes against the people.
@@buddleiabee What, the government that has been in power for less than 6mths??
I was made homeless in Bournemouth before covid. It was no fault and the landlord gave me 2 weeks to get out. I begged the council for help, as my child was only 4 at the time, and they were awful. They said if I wanted accommodation, I'd have to be at the housing office for 4 hours a day, putting my job at risk, they wanted my MEDICAL RECORDS and a years worth of bank statements, and to cap it all off, they threw in a hidden fee to stay in a b&b. £84 A. DAY. £84 a day because I had a minimum wage job. They tried to hide the fee from me and get me to sign the paperwork before they revealed that bit. I told them where to go and went to a loan shark instead, and he was way less dodgy and up front with me. Even helped me look for a temporary place to rent while I got on my feet, which is more than the council ever did! Bcp don't care about anyone or even their own reputation
Worse council in the country! Corrupt to the rotten core! Lots of pedos and predators lurking in that council
The UK still has billions of pounds to give to Ukraine!
The uk is literally falling apart !
England, you mean England.
Trolled hard since the vote for Bexit.
What was Britain paying £50 Million per week for whilst in the E.U?
We're being invaded, and it's all part of the long range Islamic master plan. God showed me in a vision. But Britain will always have HOPE.
@@alexanderferguson2199 wales and Scotland are no different
@@alexanderferguson2199 You're deluding yourself if you think Scotland/Wales/NI are much different.
It’s extremely difficult because in general salaries in the south west are exceptionally poor compared to other areas of the country. They think a sea view is enough to compensate whilst housing is sky high. Second home owners are also taking up homes and means the local economy is declining due to depopulation.
Thanks so much for this. I'm shocked I'm only 8 miles from Bournemouth. It looks so different to when I was last there about 5 years ago
This Andy is a Top Top guy and I take my Hat off to him. He needs Honouring for his services to the Homeless People in the BCP area in Dorset although sadly it will probably never happen. God Bless Andy and thank you for all you are doing to try and help these vulnerable people.
Couldn't agree more 🙏
Your progress as a journalist is shining through your most recent work. Brilliant reporting.
@@uncontrollable343 Yes I 100% agree. Good honest reporting by Joe that you never see in the press anymore !
My family moved to our former hotel in Boscombe just around the corner from We Are Human in 1978 from the Midlands and it was heaven compared to where we had moved from, clean, attractive, affluent and welcoming. As a former local nurse I have seen it fall into the gutter since the mid 80s & it is heartbreaking. I have just started 'G3' ("Gardening Gives Grace") an informal group for survivors of D&S Ab, plus those with chronic illness or in recovery from addiction where we just sit over a brew and a bake (all free) and chew the fat whilst making up pot plants, seeds, fruit and veg. You'd be amazed how much more positive our members leave after just an hour. One couple (living similarly to your amazing tent couple) even started growing their own earlier this year, only to have it dug up and destroyed by (apparently) council enforcement to force them to move on. It's beyond tragic.
I remember going on a mates holiday to Poole in 2002 and 2003 - Bournemouth was a nice little city and very safe to be in especially as an 18 year old at the time. 20 years later and its gone to hell. So depressing.
I was thinking the same. We used to holiday there in the early 2000s up til 2009. Got engaged and honeymooned there and now I don't ever want to go back. Will remember it as it was. Best beach in Britain for me
Both Poole and Bournemouth are Towns not Citys.
@@davidchapman1508 Cities not 'Citys'
In those days it was called the "Agglomeration of Bournemouth and Poole" and now it is the "South Dorset Conurbation". I remember when Bournemouth was in Hampshire and Poole was in Dorset.
And you have to blame the people who run it and the mugs who voted them in.
Andy . Such a humble man . Keep up the good work all !!!
I grew up and went to school in Bournemouth, been living abroad for the last 10 years or so. Went back recently and I was shocked at how far it's fallen. Unrecognizable from what it used to be.
Good on u for moving abroad,how to do so?
@LeyG-s3t I'd start by getting a CELTA teaching certificate and looking for a job abroad teaching English for a couple of years in Vietnam or China. You can live a very good life and earn a good living still in some Chinese cities (not Beijing or Shanghai).
I have lived in the new forest area for 20 years. Bournemouth is 10 miles away from my house. My daughter attends the local college in Bournemouth and I have to pick her up if she’s at college when it gets dark because it’s so dangerous round the lansdowne campus area of the college. It’s awash with addicts shuffling around looking like zombies, homeless people and immigrants. Every week someone is raped or stabbed in the town. It’s not safe. Lots of my friends have also banned their children from going to Bournemouth in the evening because of the number of murders there are now. I have no idea what BCP Council is doing about this but it is well known in the area for being one of the most corrupt councils in England.
As someone who was born here, I don't even understand people coming here for work or school anymore
Know many people who went to that college, and one of my favourite bars is just across the road but yea I'd never walk around alone there, and being so close to a lot of clubs and bars (plus being close to the big Asda as the carpark is a homeless and druggy hot spot, seen people smoking heroin just in the carpark during the day once it was mental)
I'd say the Poole campus is a little bit better than the Lansdowne one but only a short walk from Poole bus station and high street which is littered with teenage thugs now
Think you must live around where I do. I've lived here all my life, and used to feel safe going to Bournemouth, even as a child and teenager. I'm in my mid-30s now, and it's terrifying after dark. I don't even feel completely safe in broad daylight there any more.
'Immigrants?' What makes us fearful to you? Comments like yours are why thus Country is becoming xenophobic. Raise your child with better values.
they do not give shit
As a lecturer at the Bournemouth Site, I am sorry to hear this. The college has a permanent security presence, who will not let anyone in without a purpose to be there. I wouldn't say the campus is any more dangerous than the rest of town. Or, in fact anywhere else. I was with students and dropped them back on Friday from an educational trip, My colleagues and I stayed with the students till they were all picked up (As a parent myself, I would hope that the schools would do that for my child, so I do the same, right?) for good measure, but there was zero risk, and in fact the only people that came past us were 4 students on their way to the beach and a couple coming back from the beach. - Not typical I know, but far from the horrors the main stream media portray.
I can however agree with the town. I went in to town with my parents when they visited recently. After about 8pm, there is a sinister air in the town, and one of unease. Teenagers fighting, drunks sitting in doorways, It just did not feel safe, and was not somewhere I wanted my family to be. - From the cosy club to the BH2 car park we did not see a single police officer patrolling. With constant increases in policing enhancements for the council tax that the PCC requests, it would be nice to be able to walk through my home town and see one or two of them around!
In my book Andy is a hero, God sees all!
Lovely comment. God bless you❤
Big respect to Andy, top bloke. Nice one joe subbed
People like Andy shouldn't need to exist, except to enjoy their own happy life, but thank God he and many others like him do exist, true modern day saints.
Born and bread in Bournemouth and watching it turn into a complete sithole over the years is incredibly sad. Sadly I even recognise some of the homeless in your vid. Anyone who lives in Bmth know to avoid Boscombe and most of the town centre as crime is rampant. I moved away because it became so bad. Its upsetting to see the town you grew up in get ruined.
You do a great job getting the message out there. I've seen a few of your videos, this really hit home.
I have family living around this area, thank you for high lighting this ongoing travesty! Sad days man, sad days 🥺
I lived in Bournemouth from 2000 to 2004, now live in a village near swanage. Bournemouth back then was amazing, night life incredible …
I picked my daughter up from a club in Bournemouth a few months ago and wow! So sad to see if become what it has…
It’s happening all over the uk and can only see it getting a lot worse .
It was once a dream of old people to retire to Bournmouth, it was a place with expensive property.
Still is.
@@stevo728822exactly. There are high-class apartments, then there are the bedsits and the homeless. It’s heartbreaking.
My mum lives on Elmes Avenue, I'm in Charminster, it's still got nice spots, the problem all comes from the gov decreasing housing benefit after telling them to scrap bedsits, this means everyone on benefits has to pay extreme top ups which they cant afford!
We need bedsits to come back or housing benefits to increase!
@@EZ-D-FIANT We should also repurpose empty shops in residential areas into affordable accommodation because the retail sector is never going to go back to the levels it was and the empty shops just end up becoming more and more dilapidated.
It still is a place of expensive property but it’s a complete dump.
Well done Joe for bringing this to light and getting it out there. You've helped so many.
I'll always help someone less fortunate than myself but that's because I'm not rich or entitled , being working class I've only ever been one pay check away from the streets myself.
I still holiday in Bournemouth and in all honesty Boscombe one of my favourite locations as I feel at home with the genuine friendship shown by those I've encountered....less comfortable in the more affluent areas who's inhabitants only concern in life is their bank balance.
Brilliant exposure my friend that I will be sharing , this needs a much wider audience 👍
I live close to the WAH charity in the video and I can tell you this is a real problem, not exaggerated and the help from WAH and other charities in the area can't be understated. I was homeless and was given a tent, sleeping mat, bag and food etc. Without people like Andy I wouldn't've survived.
Used to run a gym in Bournemouth, 5 times police came to inform us of s£Xual predators, we had three r@pes and 1 unaliving just outside in the bushes.
Hotels are Half way houses for offenders, main one is end of westover road. It’s 100m from one of Europe’s busiest beaches. Nice thinking.
BCP care more about cycle lanes (17 million the latest joke project) than they do us
Left town and rent my house out. It’s a horrid place now
Wow, I've felt like it was pretty unsafe around there lately (2 nice art galleries on Westover Rd.) but had no idea
The cycle comment rings true across the West. Did you ever try something like a boxing gym for the lads to have somewhere to vent their frustration and get motivated and organized?
Some of the best hotels are now occupied by Somalis and Bangladeshis at taxpayer's expense.
@@velvetinedrapes4359 Lads dont need a gym now. They have victims to claim no? Most people my age are either road men bussing around with chavs, selling drugs and beating people up for stupid reasons. Seems they get enough action as it is. The ones like me who dont bother going outside anymore or meeting anyone our age vent our frustrations through escapism. Its the most pacifistic way out now. Any other option leads to jail.
Great content as always.
BPC is happy to put illegal immigrants in hotels plus give them money, whilst ignoring homeless indigenous people. Some of those rundown hotels could be turned into shelter for the homeless. Sadly, there has been a drug problem in Boscombe since the 1960`s.
Firstly how do you know they are illegal? Secondly the hotels are closed so no longer hotels. The residents have none of the benefits of staying in an actual hotel. Thirdly we need to look at why this is happening in modern society. There is so much unnecessary stress in the modern world it’s hardly surprising we see this sort of thing.
The gentleman with no shirt definitely has his finger on the pulse
@@nigelfarley814 Illegal migrants are housed in hotels. Legal migrants are self-supporting.
The hotels aren't "closed". They're hired by government funded companies to house illegals at the taxpayer's expense.
There's a hotel for refugees near me. Free bicycles, two pools (indoor and outdoor), gymnasium, sea views.
The world's "unnecessary stress" can't be cured by inviting millions of people to live in the UK.
@@nigelfarley814 Thy are illegal because they don't have the necessary visas.
If they did, they wouldn't be in the immigrant housing.
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Brilliant video and representation of what it's like in Bournemouth. Probably the best one on TH-cam by far. Thanks for putting together.
Heartbreaking 😢 Welll done though for filming and speaking with these people ❤
Great video but you missed so many points, you failed to show the closed shops due to high rents, the missing public toilets that have been removed, the poor roads, how dirty the town is and run down and that Boscombe used to be a very rich area in the 1950's and before.
you could of mentioned the Boscombe devil and the reason for the elephant painting above one of the biggest empty shops there which also has a link to major pop & rock groups. the failings of the council by fitting a pedestrian walkway down Boscombe high street causing the local business's to fail, the lack of jobs in the area and there are so many families struggling, no NHS dentists in the area willing to take new clients, there are so many hidden homeless in Bournemouth that no one see's (many years ago I was one of them) a place called the junction helps the younger homeless and WAH seem to be doing a great job, but there is so much more depravity in Bournemouth that you didn't see or mention.
Massive respect to andy and we are humans.
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Good expose of real time struggles ❤
Thank you for making us better aware, that’s brilliant reporting and prompting to action, all the best to everyone
thankyou for sharing this, such a genuine documentary, looking forward to seeing more from you
Thanks Joe for a true report on reallity in the "Rich South"!
New subscriber from an expat living in Newfoundland. It's not just in UK but here in Canada too, it is such a sad state of affairs. How much is enough for the 1%?
The love of money is the root of all evil!
I couldn’t agree more. Why the 1% get tax write offs I’ll never understand. They could quite literally be charged 90% tax and still be perfectly fine on their lifestyles - it baffles me
@@aaronchapman6666 Spot on sir!
So sorry to see this. Bournemouth used to be a fun, thriving party town in the 1980s. Also, Poole was very upmarket. Sadly, this appears to be happening all over the UK and with an uncaring government, will only get far worse. There is no such thing as affordable housing. The only people buying so called affordable housing are coming from out of the area who already owned a house. The average wage has not kept up with house prices. I have watched other videos on Bournemouth and they all tell a completely different story. Some of them show it to be good and others, the worst.
I lived in Bournemouth around 2015 and there were a lot of homeless people then. Went back there again a couple years ago and was shocked by how visibly worse it had gotten... it was like The Walking Dead. Homeless people on every bench and in every shop front, groups of men drinking bottles of vodka in broad daylight, even saw a guy inhaling solvents in the middle of the street.
More shockingly it's still like a giant holiday camp compared to London...
It's heart breaking. I'm 75 and when I was growing up we used to have holidays in Bournemouth. My sister and I used to spend a lot of time at the ice skating rink. Bournemouth was then a lovely place to visit. It's hard to see what's happened. Thank you Joe for what you're doing.
Well done to all who help and support the homeless. A big thank you and God Bless you for recording this so we can see what’s going on in and around our towns. 😢
I've been living in Bournemouth for my entire life, and it has, 100%, gotten so much worse over the last 10-15 years. It feels so uncomfortable to just go out for a walk during the day because of the direction the area. It's so sad to see such a lovely area take such a devastating turn, but it isn't going to change unless the council actually tries to do something.
the council are not there to do anything for the people /us it is there to satisfy its own needs
saleries , corrupt practices and pensions and political agendas.
Where's the money coming from for the council?as number of people needing help implodes why?
Joe, your content is so valuable, plus it is getting more and more professional. Keep it up my man, you're doing excellent work.
Great work Joe, we all need to help and support each other now the Government and Local Authorities are discriminating against our own people and you're doing a great service getting the message out there
I see this stuff every single day in Bournemouth. So so sad, been here for 8 years and it's only getting worse. Even my neighbours are trouble makers and druggies. I feel like i'm stuck here and cannot save up enough to move away... There are hardly any decent employment opportunities, I work in a high-end restaurant and had a random guy come in and start verbally harassing and attempting to attack my customers, never seen anything like it!!
I feel so sad at what the government has done to their people and their country. This beautiful country has gone to the dogs. Stay strong people, and don’t let anyone make you feel worthless or small…..because your not ❤ your beautiful
Great video by the way. It’s compelled me to do something to help. I didn’t know Bournemouth had such a problem.
Mate andy is doing the job as a government solo, he is a fkin hero and you too brother for sharing.
I came out of rehab on a methadone detox 7 months ago and now work as a recovery worker at build on belief . We do recover, keep up the good fight ❤
@@Dramapalmer Well done, so pleased to hear this.👍🏻
Brilliant channel. And you get things moving, Joe. Thumbs up, up, UP !!!!
What a moving video. Thank you for coming to Bournemouth ❤
A very good documentary that exposes what is happening not just in Britain but in US towns acoross the country. Do our politicans have no shame. Harriet and I will make a donation to
we are humans (Andy) Keep doing the good work Joe. We need you here in the US. All the best mate 👍👍 Jim and Harriet
Of course they have no shame, they see people as tax cattle. Once you view people as expendable cattle there is no shame involved in what has to occur while managing the herd. If you ask them, they will tell you that the herd should consider themselves lucky regarding how well they are treated in England and will show you countless other farms where the cattle are treated much worse.
i moved to bournemouth for uni and this is tne reality, thank you for bringing light to thid truely lovely place
Great great great episode I love independent reporting like this now because of your video people are being helped and it's thanks to people like you bless you man keep shining a light in the dark 😊
Thank you for your kind words 🙏
@@JoefishJ you missed the most important part,
the biggest organised crime gang in Bournemouth runs out of the town hall, they've dumped a highly lucrative poverty industry in Boscombe and stolen all of the vital regeneration assets including parking for tourists and shoppers. Forcibly changed the economy from tourism, leisure and retail to poverty industry (the over 60 unregulated halfway houses for repeat offenders and addicts bring in over £10million a year) asset stripping and disastrous development while millions disappear on bogus "regeneration".
You are doing a great job highlighting this and forcing BCP to do something. Big Thank you to ‘We are human’
Thank you for filming this documentary, thank you for letting me know & be aware of situation of homeless,in Bournemouth
sending prayers & love, glad I’m in good health & good position, I drink but vary rarely, I was homeless once I know how it feels, it honestly was horrible & I’m grateful that I food, clothes on my back, Roof over my head and income to survive on
I live in Poole and in the last 6 years BCP has seen tons more homeless people and tons of teen gangs that run around and terrorise people. The walk around in daylight with knives in their hands.
Guy in the red jacket and flat cap is bang on!
This video brought me to tears. I’ve lived in Bournemouth and Poole since the 1960s. Bournemouth and Boscombe were family holiday areas. Now it’s just a cesspit and BCP aren’t doing enough. Heartening though that they took action to house a few just in a week. Keep up the good work. Maybe one day Dorset will be restored to its former glory…somehow i doubt it. But such lovely people you interviewed
I grew up here too, so sad what it's become
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Keep up the amazing work you do. I will donate. Thank you
Fantastic to see your growth. Great vids