Local community leader Richard McShane, who has lived on the estate all his life, has devoted the last 10 years to trying to change this situation; through a project he started called Phoenix. Rival gang violence was once prevalent on the estate, but since Richard launched the Phoenix project, gang warfare has dramatically decreased – and for some, there's even been reconciliation.
Sunrise Farm in Buckinghamshire is home to the horse loving La-Haye family and their equestrian therapeutic centre 'Horses Helping People'. They provide therapeutic sessions to special needs children and adults by getting them out into the countryside riding and interacting with horses. Their wor...
In this episode Operation Homefront's team of ex-military specialists come to the rescue of the Solent Rescue lifeboat service. The service is run by a group of volunteers on a hazardous stretch of water between the UK mainland and the Isle of Wight.
This week we're in Abingdon, in Oxfordshire where Operation Homefront's mission: to re-build the crumbling HQ of a local organisation that's been at the heart of this rural community for over seventy years – the 24th Abingdon Scout Group. Here in Britain, there are over 8,000 groups that congrega...