Her Worship has lent her support to The Hidden Homeless, a campaign by Housing Matters in association with Barclays to highlight the fate of people in housing crisis in the island.
She joined volunteers from the charity and bank on Saturday October 28 on a sofa in Granville Street - one of three town-centre locations - to raise awareness of the plight of people, many young adults, forced to sleep on friends' couches (sofa-surfing). She explainedL ‘When you don't have a permanent address, things can become more difficult, claiming benefits to help you, applying for jobs and keeping your personal belongings safe, for example. It’s factors like these that crush a person’s self-confidence and make them feel they have no sense of worth.
‘Homelessness is devastating, dangerous and isolating. That was why I chose to I support The Hidden Homeless campaign.’
