Nacro in Stevenage

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Nacro are a housing association who house 16+ teens and offenders to help them get back on their feet whilst offering support from Housing officers with the aim to find tenants a council property if the client shows they are ready.

I am now nearly 29 but had used Nacro between the ages of 16-18. It was a very difficult time in my life where my mother had passed away from Cancer, my father returned home on compassionate grounds from Prison, but then kicked me out approx 5 months after my mothers death. My world was literally destroyed. I had no mobile phone and the only possession I had was a bag of clothes. Even now it's hard to believe I had reached such a low point in my life.

NACRO took me in but only had a house available in Letchworth. I'd only ever been to Letchworth twice but due to my state of desperation I was thankful and accepted their offer. The road was far from smooth, I'd got in some trouble with the Police, was re-housed in Letchworth but things gradually started to improve in certain aspects. The second Nacro property was closed and the tenants were offered alternative accommodation of self contained properties in Hitchin. Whilst there I was victim to various malicious acts of vandalism - later found to be a young lad who hated me as I grew up in Stevenage? Obviously he felt some deluded sense of hatred as I was born in another town, despite him 'acting' friendly towards me. One day I got home to find a firework had been put through my letterbox and obviously bits of burnt carpet, cardboard and plastic everywhere. I was lucky I didn't loose the little possessions I'd been gradually accumulating.

I went immediately to Stevenage; to the NACRO office and they couldn't of been more supportive. They fast tracked me back to Stevenage where I lived until the age of 18 and was awarded a council property.

After then, I moved to Devon on my own when I was 20. Moved back to Stevenage when I was 21 until I was 25, where I had a long distance relationship to Bristol. I then moved to Bristol and now have a great Job in IT, a lovely 2 bedroom house, a degree and even letters after my name! (Not bad for someone who left school in year 10 and didn't even sit any GCSE's!). Truly I don't know where I'd be if it wasn't for NACRO. Thank you for believing in me and helping me to believe in me too. It's people like those at NACRO who make this world a far better place.

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