warned that the sector<\/a> \u201ccontinues to face huge challenges\u201d and called on the Government to go further.<\/p>\n\u2018Most of the time we hear bad stuff\u2019<\/h2>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, the Prince of Wales visited Pecan, a community charity in Peckham.<\/p>\n
While there, he spoke about how the 24-hour news cycle and mobile phone use are partially to blame for driving rising depression and loneliness.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWith everyone\u2019s phones now you can get so much news, that actually it completely overwhelms you in terms of being able to process this and that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd unfortunately most of the time we hear bad stuff, so you can reinforce someone into the bad place and depression.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou reinforce innocently [just] looking at your phone and the news so I can see that it\u2019s overwhelming when you feel like it\u2019s just negativity all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the visit, he met with staff members, volunteers and Pecan clients \u2013 many of whom have escaped homelessness and poverty through the charity\u2019s services.<\/p>\n
After hearing from Stella, who told him how she had been sleeping on the streets before the Pecan team found her in 2017, Prince William said: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what you guys do. It puts people\u2019s lives back on track again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Prince added: \u201cThis feels like a very happy family. But that family point and that caring is so important at the moment \u2013 it\u2019s the magic ingredient of a really good charity. It\u2019s a hard dynamic to get that right, but when you do get it right it\u2019s gold dust.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also discussed his and the Princess of Wales\u2019s donation to the local Southwark Foodbank, operated by Pecan just off Peckham High Street, after it was robbed in September 2024.<\/p>\n
The couple donated to help replenish stock after \u00a33,000 of food and hygiene products were taken, as well as a laptop.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the incident on Wednesday, William said: \u201cI was reading all the stories about it and … I was trying to picture where you were and how that all happened because we were looking for a while to try and see how we could help and your article came across my phone and I was like \u2018OK\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also paid a visit to the warehouse of the foodbank and met two volunteers, one of whom helped him to pack one of the food parcels that gets distributed locally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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