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Nightstop film about homelessness in the New Forest

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New Forest Nightstop has recently met up with film maker, Pete Doherty, to set about making a short film about homelessness in the New Forest and the threats that young people can face if they become homeless.

Jude Todd, Nightstop Co-ordinator said

“People think of the New Forest as an affluent, beautiful, peaceful National Park but we want to flip it on its head and show that amongst this homelessness exists and is set to rise even more as financial pressures increase in family homes.

 

As one agency said to me, ‘The forest is saturated with homelessness and there is no where to put them’ and yet another agency said ‘I don’t know what we would do without Nightstop’.”

 

Nightstop, a charity run by Community First New Forest, helps homeless young people, providing safe accommodation in volunteers’ homes around the Forest. There is NO other emergency accommodation at all in the New Forest.

Jude says,

“These kids are just like any other young person and their homelessness is mainly forced on them through family breakdowns, fleeing violence and abuse. This can happen in any family home. They are not street hardened rough sleepers; Nightstop aims to catch them before they get that far. The film is being made to help put across that they are simply young people, at a crisis point and without Nightstop they are extremely vulnerable.”

 

Three youth actors, Charlie Rix, Sam White and Millie Chittock, who herself has been hosting for Nightstop for the last 5 years, spent a day out and about in the New Forest shooting scenes with director Pete Doherty and Solent University Media Student Tim Benson on camera joined by Jude. 

Another day of filming is planned with some of the young people who have stayed in Nightstop, sharing parts of their story and the difference Nightstop has made in their lives.

The film has been made possible by funding from the Big Lottery. 

Plans are in place to use the film to promote the work done by New Forest Nightstop and to show the dangers young people face on the streets. 

With the Big Lottery funding ending in March 2012, it is also hoped that the film will secure support for the on going mission of the only charity in the New Forest addressing homelessness.

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