Light Relief

Regular readers of this blog will know that from time to time it can be very hard work at Ben’s Centre. We accept that the clients we are working with, this goes with the job. It has been a hard week in lots of ways and it does seem like a slog at times; we [...]

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Fridays

The last few Fridays have started off as a very peaceful day and have ended with absolute mayhem. It is very much part of the nature of the Centre here when you are dealing with people who are often very intoxicated that suddenly a very risky and difficult situation can develop. This is usually when [...]

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The Sheffield Wheel

We are sorry that the blog is later this week. This is because on Tuesday, when we usually post the blog, we took some clients on ‘The Wheel of Sheffield’. We were kindly given a donation especially for this purpose.
Unfortunately our numbers were lower than we would have liked due to some clients coming in [...]

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Negative words

Apparently it takes 10 positive words to undo 1 negative word that is spoken to you. Our clients are often very negative. You find that the nick-names they call each other are often so damming and they walk around with these dreadful names. You can understand that their lives are hard and it does take [...]

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