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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.

Oct 1, 2026

3:36
[laughs]
3:36
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.
3:45
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.
3:59
Um, so it is partly a place, but it's also partly relationships and, and all the stuff around them.
4:06
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.
4:17
They're not an anonymous stranger.
4:18
Very often they're very well-known.

24 MINS LATER

27:52
Keith, any thoughts?

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