Maff Potts & Petrina Douglas

Meet the Camerados - a social movement with a very simple suggestion: 'the answer to our problems is each other.' A Camerado is someone who is halfway between a stranger and a friend: they're people who meet in public spaces, just to be alongside each other in good times and bad, with no agenda and absolutely no fixing. On this week's podcast we're talking to Maff Potts, - founder of the movement, and Petrina Douglas, an active Camerado based in Middlesborough. Maff had previously spent much of his career tackling homelessness - he’s worked both front line and in leadership positions running the largest homeless services in the country, but started Camerados in 2015 to address the way he felt that the system was failing people. The Camerados are passionate about biscuits, drinking tea, fairy lights and being ok with failure. Principled yet silly, they challenge so much of the status quo around social justice, public services and about how to support people when they’re struggling with their mental health, making them a pirate movement through and through. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.