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00:00The Sunrise foyer is a brand new foyer in Chatham. We currently have two other foyers in the Medway
00:06area and it's specifically designed to meet the housing needs of young people 16 to 25 years of
00:14age and actually how the model works is it tries to kind of not just deal with people's housing
00:20needs but also to connect them to training and employment opportunities. So it tries to break
00:25that cycle of no home no job, no job no home. We have two foyers already and demand for them
00:32far exceeds supply so we've been really working very closely with the local authority. They were
00:38keen to see us provide a new foyer and when we looked at the figures when we first put kind of
00:43these plans to paper two three years ago we estimated there was something like about 250
00:49young people locally whose needs weren't being met. So as you can imagine this is a new facility
00:55it will look after for up to 30 young people at a time so it's much needed.