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Keith Smith
Founder and CEO of the Ferry Project, a homelessness charity in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and consultant with Homeless Link focused on rural homelessness.
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Oct 1, 2026
S2E01 - Bringing it Home: Confronting the Stigma of Rural Homelessness
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3:36Keith SmithGUEST
If we look, if we look at the, um, the basic thing, if you ask most people what home is, home isn't actually a building or a structure.
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3:45Keith SmithGUEST
Home is the relationships they have with people around them, and it's about their, the fact that they feel safe and there's a place where they're, they, um, they can retreat to when they need to, to find some refuge themselves.
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3:59Keith SmithGUEST
Um, so it is partly a place, but it's also partly relationships and, and all the stuff around them.
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4:06Keith SmithGUEST
Now, now therefore with, um, in rural settings, those relationships, as Karen's just said, can be easily fractured because people know each other far more.
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