I need to sort myself out.
But hopefully getting a job might help that.
I feel like I'm taking a step forward.
Well, if they extended the shelter, then we're there a bit longer.
If we're not housed, then we're back out on the street.
You are beautiful. He's going to miss you when you go to France.
SHE LAUGHS Where's my little Ocean?
Urgh, I hate it here.
My boyfriend went to prison.
So, obviously, didn't want to be on my own in Brighton and stuff.
So, come back here. There's more support here. So, I'm not on my own.
But I bloody hate it. SHE LAUGHS
I'm staying with my other half's family at the moment.
Which is really nice, cos they can support me and I can support them.
WOMAN AND MAN ON STREET TO EACH OTHER
I'm going to the Seaview Centre to see if they can write me
a letter to take to Nationwide, so I can set up a bank account.
Cos I've got no ID, I haven't got anything.
Erm, I lost my passport.
I don't have a bank card
and, obviously, I have no proof of address or anything like that, so...
I sort of just lost everything along the way.
SHE HUMS
I've always been, like, spoon fed my whole life by social services.
So, since I turned 18, I'm having to do everything like an adult.
I'm finding it really strange.
I can feel myself downward spiralling very quickly,
but I can't do that, now I'm an adult.
There are loads of drugs in Hastings. There are loads of drugs.
I'd say I'm quite easily manipulated when it comes to drugs.
And you never know with drugs.
I lost my best friend and you take one thing, and you'll die.
So, that's another reason why I don't want to do it.
Because I don't want to die. SHE LAUGHS
Woo! Sorry. Thank you. All right, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Thank you.
My hair's a mess! SHE LAUGHS
With the shelter now over, I'm not in there no more.
Ended on Mother's Day, unfortunately!
SHE LAUGHS
Everyone was meant to be housed,
but the whole reason it was hard to get in there,
they didn't want to put anyone back on the street afterwards.
You know.
Now it feels like when it's over, it's like it's never happened.
SIREN WAILS
But... My sleeping bags keep getting nicked as well.
So, like, I don't sit...
When I'm sitting out, I don't sit out on my sleeping bag any more.
You know, it's happened to us quite a few times.
Like, they took our tent with everything in quite a few times.
So, that's how I've like...that's how I've got no ID or anything.
Yeah, this is it, this is where I am. Trying to, like I said,
trying to make it look as though someone's sleeping!
SHE LAUGHS
I need new shoes. My Docs are literally breaking.
Yeah, that's what I need next.
I can't see Lance.
Hello, mate. I didn't think you was going to find me.
I'm on a different site. I know.
I was looking over there and I thought the bin might have hid you.
Someone was there at first, so I come over here. And then I looked up and he was gone.
But I had already chalked on the ground, so... Oh.
About to say, go over there.
It's getting busy again now. You ain't got a coffee.
I ain't got anything to drink. Can you bring me a drink?
I ain't got anything to drink, either.
I can get you one. Yes, that's what I mean.
Fair enough.
I am back.
Going to France, that was very short-lived.
I am not back on the streets.
I got back to England, and I went back to see Nicky.
So, I had an interview after the weekend, on the Monday
and then I got the place, basically.
Moved in on the same day.
And this is that place. I am really, really pleased.
Especially how soon it actually took me to get in this place.
I was expecting it to be a bit of a process, to be fair.
But everyone was really amazing
in sorting it out as soon as possible, at the council.
I have an intention of going to college,
I've got a few steps I need to do before I get there.
It's the military prep college.
Preparing for the Army. Not going in the Army, but...you know.
I've got all this stuff that will go in there.
And pasta. I get all this stuff from the food bank.
All of this stuff, right, they basically said
they've given it to me and when I move out,
that's what I get to take with me.
So, yeah, all that's mine.
It can be quite isolated,
that's the main thing that I find most difficult about being in here.
Mainly, I just sit here and... On YouTube, basically,
listening to music.
Just to make it less quiet in here.
Even with the music, it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I don't know why.
I'm knackered.
That's all of my sugars.
I found some sugars.
Over 10.
It used to be, like, 15.
But I've cut down a bit.
I love hazelnut syrup. That's really nice.
Coffee, a cigarette.
Hopefully, I'll wake up a bit.
I'm under 25, like,
and that is one of the brackets of helping people, so...
And I'm female, you know, I should be quite high-risk, really.
But I'm not, for some reason.
So, we've signed forms for the next stage hostels, and everything.
But, even then, it's going to be a waiting game, like...
I love my boots. Always loved boots.
In a charity shop, down the road.
All right, ain't they? The police are really cracking down now.
Someone even got arrested for begging, the other day.
Now, Bristol, was like this, in the end.
We had things called injunctions in Bristol, where we weren't allowed
to sit, loiter...
Sit, loiter, approach people with intention to begging.
Lance got put in prison for eight days, on remand, for it.
In the whole six years, we've never been apart that long.
It was horrible.
You are right, love? Do you want a fag?
Tea and cookies. How's that?
You having fun, then, tonight, eh?
A lot of the guys on the streets, they always looked out for me.
Just from a distance, sort of thing, but they were around.
So, it's nice to still keep contact, in a way.
It's not even just coming down
and giving food and drinks and all of that,
it's seeing everybody as well.
Hey, guys. Hello! I have come to hide in the hide-y corner.
There's sugar in that one, there's cookies.
Who wants a cookie?
Being on the streets becomes your normal.
So, when you're put in a house or a flat or a room,
it's not your normal.
I was homeless 20 years ago, 25 years ago,
on the streets. And I still can't sleep in a bed.
I have to sleep on the floor or on the sofa.
Put me in a bed and I'm like...
You put a street person in a house or in a flat
and then you're left there to set up to fail.
It's like, what the fuck?
Sorry to swear, but it really pisses me off.
Noodles, sit down, please. Noodles.
Oh, yeah. Noodles is the new addition.
Hello, Noodles.
Our friend has gone away for a little while,
so we are Noodles' godparents.
We've looked after her a couple of times before.
I've been doing pretty crap, lately.
I've not been making much, so Noodles reels in the goodies.
Yeah, these ones. Nice one. I've needed socks for ages.
Over a week and a half, I've probably changed them twice.
I mean, with me,
I can wear clothing as long as the clothing allows me to.
Which means, as soon as it starts to look like shit or smell
or feel like shit, then I'll change it.
Have you ever done that thing where you turn the socks inside out,
to get the other side? They say that's an army thing,
but it's not true, because the outside is worse.
The outside's the dirty side.
It's better just to keep them on than to do that.
Especially if you've got blisters or cuts on your feet... Like I said,
that's the dirty bit.
Come on, then.
No?
We face each other now, when we go to bed, and cuddle Noodles.
What would you call it, we sort of baking tray Noodles. We don't spoon.
We face each other, holding hands, got our legs locked.
Yeah. A different sort of cheek to cheek.
Such a good girl, aren't you?
Hastings won Pier Of The Year.
It's got nothing on it.
I'm going to get passport photos. My picture being taken, I hate it.
OK. Just once again, straight towards the lens.
Excellent. Right, come and have a quick look at this.
You can pick out... So, you've got that one... That one.
I already know.
You already know. All right. We'll just print that for you. Thank you.
All the rest of them, I'm like...
I look like a little bit of a junkie. It's all right, though.
I've got a letter from Seaview.
It basically says, please accept this letter as proof of identity,
for Kelly.
So, I'm going to take this to Lloyds and explain to them
that I'm homeless and I use the Seaview centre.
Give them the letter
and hopefully I can set up a bank account.
Because then that will be enough to get things going.
Not happy.
I basically have got to go back to Seaview...
..and get two words changed on my letter.
It says "staff team," it's supposed to say "key worker."
It's just one thing after another.
We are off to the military prep college in Eastbourne...
..where I have an interview.
It's a good idea to do this course
because it means you have a lot of good qualifications.
And it looks really good on a CV, to be fair...
..once you've done it.
If I didn't have Nicky around,
then I probably wouldn't last very long, to be fair.
Because even being in there for five minutes,
when I got back last night, was just awful.
I was sitting there like, fucking now what?
I'm just going to put all the cards down on the table,
tell them basically everything.
I've just come off the streets.
All of that shit. Yeah, just be open with them, see what happens
you know what I mean? Because...
Yeah.
How are we doing? We doing all right?
What is it?
Just found out I'm pregnant, so...
About a month or two, I think, I am.
I've got two.
Pregnant.
Well, that one I did with Lance.
I didn't tell him for two days.
I don't even know why.
I didn't think he was going to be mad, obviously. I just...
I don't know.
Thank you. Have a good night. Cheers, mate.
It's completely unexpected, because we've been together ages,
and it just hasn't ever been a worry before.
I know that's stupid.
But it hasn't, ever. So, we didn't think that we were...
Didn't think it would be easy.
Thought it was something that we would have to fucking try to do.
But turns out not.
We really tried for a couple of years, and didn't think we could.
When we was... You know, had our own place, had jobs.
Termination is not an option.
And, ideally, I don't think she'd...either of us would be
up for giving the baby away after going through pregnancy.
And thinking, you know what I mean...
Fish and chips.
Better save the girl some of this.
Hello. Noodles. What have you got there? Bit of fish and chips.
Yeah. Here, boy.
Is it warm? Kind of. It's not cold. Well, it is.
Anyway, take this off me.
You all right, yeah?
It's got a little bit colder, hasn't it?
Fucking freezing.
Come on.
Noodles.
Yeah, there's just a few problems with the dates.
I think I'm about 10-12 weeks.
But I think I told him I was about eight weeks, six weeks.
Hello, I'm ringing to enquire about a flat on Warrior Square.
I was just wondering if they accepted housing benefits, or...
I've been banned from the council for 22 months, was it, 22 months?
For aggressive behaviour.
Just trying to get my point across, cos, apparently, I was being racist.