{"id":20795,"date":"2016-12-20T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20795"},"modified":"2016-12-24T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T19:17:01","slug":"volunteering-with-crisis-at-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20795","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering with Crisis at Christmas (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I am going to be a volunteer with the charity for the homeless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisis.org.uk\/pages\/christmas.html\">Crisis at Christmas<\/a>. At the induction session for new volunteers, we were given some background information on the scale and nature of homelessness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some 60% of the homeless say that they are lonely.<\/li>\n<li>Some 70% of the homeless say that they feel invisible.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who is homeless is 17 times more likely than the general public to be the subject of violence, sadly often from members of the public.<\/li>\n<li>The average life expectancy of a homeless person is just 47.<\/li>\n<li>One in four homeless people spend Christmas alone.<\/li>\n<li>Over the last six years, the scale of homelessness has increased.<\/li>\n<li>In the last year alone, rough sleeping has increased by around 50% in England with around 8,000 in London spending at least one night on the streets.<\/li>\n<li>It is estimated that in England there are around 250,00o people who are homeless or have no permanent place to live (using squats, hostels or friends).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I am going to be a volunteer with the charity for the homeless Crisis at Christmas. At the induction session for new volunteers, we were given some background information on the scale and nature of homelessness. Some 60% of the homeless say that they are lonely. Some 70% of the homeless say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20824,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions\/20824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}