Reach Faith

01/04/2025

I have created two April Fools Day videos for RF! Enjoy :)

Here is version #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuKn44Xbe8

And here is version #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6fQ4zlEW0

Both start with the same introduction but split when it comes to the "opening" of the booster pack.

19/02/2025

How are we all doing?

04/02/2023

Please be advised that the below report contains extremely serious and distressing references. This report references distressing accounts gained during Select Committee meetings. Please do not read the reportt alone and try to avoid reading it during the night. This report is separate to my report (The Birmingham Reference.). It is important all know the terror tenants within supported housing face but please also be on guard. The failings concern tenants, providers of supported housing accommodation, housing agencies such as Concept Housing, local authorities such as Birmingham City Council, local police forces such as West Midlands Police as well as concerning other individuals and entities. As soon as I have finished my reports I shall publish them in the safest way possible, as the Select Committee hearings, although encouraging, failed to address certain elements, such as corruption and incompetence within Birmingham City Council's team of inspectors. A councillor present during one hearing rose to defend the inspectors, stating "We have some of the best inspectors," instead of rising to instantly welcome the need to continually improve and reform; explaining why myself and others have come to be so easily betrayed when reporting BCC and corruption in general. Complacency and arrogance fuel the minds of the lazy and the cost of such behaviour is deadly and irreversible: I have both witnessed and documented it myself: repeatedly. Enough. Supported housing is an abject failure. As clear as day. It must be reformed and NOW.

Report by the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, with recommendations to government

14/01/2023

I would like to share with you a poem from my poetry book containing a poem for each day of the year! Awesome, isn't it?! I have already been exposed to new poems and poets both familiar and unfamiliar despite only having purchased the book late last year from a charity shop; for the incredible price of £0.99.

I would like though today to actually read a poem from a previous day. January 7th was assigned by the book the poem "The Ball Poem" by John Berryman.

"What is the boy now, who has lost his ball.
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over—there it is in the water!
No use to say 'O there are other balls':
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went. I would not intrude on him,
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now
He senses first responsibility
In a world of possessions. People will take balls,
Balls will be lost always, little boy,
And no one buys a ball back. Money is external.
He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,
The epistemology of loss, how to stand up
Knowing what every man must one day know
And most know many days, how to stand up
And gradually light returns to the street,
A whistle blows, the ball is out of sight.
Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark
Floor of the harbour . . I am everywhere,
I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move
With all that move me, under the water
Or whistling, I am not a little boy."

14/01/2023

RF updates:

A very brief overview of my most important work and projects, my dedications to Alice. Progress has been slow in areas due to covid and other barriers but I will forever push ahead in Alice's memory to meet important goals, one of which being to provide opportunities for people to express themselves through the arts. This year will include for RF:

-continued uploading of videos
-neatening and potentially releasing new crowdfunding pitch
-increasing income stability and volume
-publishing TBR
-groups
-The proper opening of RF shop and services
-Daily poetry

And of course, lots more! Watch out for some specially themed Pokemon card opening videos too! A clue: Fox Mulder would be interested.

19/12/2022

Happy holidays and happy Christmas, whatever you plan or do not plan and whomever you are or are not with. Your days are yours, your feelings are yours, I hope sincerely that you find freedom somewhere in each of your days and can come to feel your life a canvas upon which you are able to express your wishes.

27/10/2022

I was emailed today a link to both summary and full report of the Select Committee's findings in relation to supported housing. I was a part of the Birmingham hearing, providing evidence and testimony relating to the failures by all organisations related: from HB Housing ltd to Concept Housing all the way up to Birmingham City Council. I have had a moment to analyse the summary report as well as certain sections of the full report.

It is encouraging to hear people finally taking us seriously. Some of the ideas I briefly noticed contained within the report sound sensible and productive. However, the report, from the perspective of my quick glance, fails to mention the terrible failings by Birmingham City Council, its inherent corruption and its victim blaming. BCC must be held accountable for all crimes. I was though extremely pleased to hear the strong language the report at times adopted, mentioning standards as "disgusting."

Make no mistake: this report is but the beginning. I will keep on challenging these authorities to demand that victims are believed and not blamed, protected and not traumatised further and given decent standards of living. How is it that supported is meant for the most vulnerable of individuals yet a "tenant" is given less rights than a private tenant, due to providers having the power to "evict" without reason given and only seven days provided for the vulnerable individual to find a new home? This is sick and inexcusable. I condemn these sick behaviours in the strongest of terms. Intolerable.

BCC, where are you? It is hightime you woke up and sorted your community out. You are failing us all.

Report by the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, with recommendations to government

05/10/2022

Today is Friendship Day for me in memory of my dearest friend Alice.

Remember and cherish your friendships and other relationships. Take pride in the bonds you have formed and protect them always.