When I was homeless and addicted, I could have used a charity just like this one

I'M NOT being funny but... Today I'd like to talk about People In Need Today (Pint). This grassroots London-based charity began 18 years ago and not enough people are talking about the amazing work they do.

One of the founders, Cee, used to be a music manager and so he'd spend time in community centres and council estates looking for young people to mentor, people with talent.

More and more, he was seeing kids spending time out on the streets later than they were supposed to be. It soon became apparent these kids had nowhere to go spending the night on the streets and then changing into their school uniform the next morning.

Too often, they wouldn't be able to go home because they had abusive fathers or addict mothers and so on. That's when Pint began.

The charity started reaching out to these kids, providing them with warm meals, some mentorship and support.

Eventually things started to improve in these kids' lives and they would start saying, "we just ate today, give it to that man over there".