Stories

After 24 years in the shadows, 68-year-old finally finds home, health, and happiness with shoc’s support C is a West Indian gentleman who is 68 years of age. He came to Britain in July 2000 on a 6 month tourist visa and never returned to Jamaica when this expired. For the next 20 years C […]

it felt like standing under an umbrella in the rain Miss Z wanted a change of direction in life and found herself moving to Slough without stable accommodation. It was then that a friend suggested she contact SHOC. From the first moment Z walked through the door in her own words “it felt like standing

A young lady was referred to the learning centre by the local drug support agency She was on a drugs programme following many years of Class A drug abuse which had seen her losing her children and being estranged from her family. She came along and joined our IT course and the course on CV

A 24-year-old man had been coming to SHOC since the age of 15 as his mother is a service user He is now a father and living between his mother and his partner. He had been continually encouraged to use the learning centre but had showed little interest in doing so. He began weekly meetings

A young man grew up with his mother and brother and never knew his father. He became involved with the “wrong” crowd and started to smoke cannabis on a daily basis when he was 17, this made him feel good. His new friends soon got him on to heroin.  He was offered accommodation through a

Mr P. Z. became a homeless person in Slough and began using SHOC’s daycentre for support Initially he had very little command of the English language and so began attending ESOL classes which improved his communication skills. He was then able to take part in a CSCS course which he passed and he has now

It started when I became homeless due to circumstances beyond my control I was also very addicted to Class A drugs at this point and I found out about SHOC from word of mouth and also through probation. Probation had been helping me get through my drug abuse and also helping me not to reoffend

Reading that SHOC could help with food and accommodation and help me get work, was a ray of hope John first came to SHOC for help in 2008. Having been homeless for a few months, he found himself the victim of assault, which is sadly very common among the vulnerable homeless. Whilst at the police