While campaigning in Brighton, I met a lady who wants to volunteer for Worthing Homeless. She's currently unable to volunteer because she is waiting for her third CRB check to come through. All this in order to be able to put items in a plastic bag in the Worthing charity shop. She says that the bureaucratic hassle had nearly put her off volunteering:

'I thought, I can't stand this. You have to take your passport, and the whole process makes you feel like a criminal. But then I thought of the homeless and so I'm sticking it out.'

Christina is still prepared to volunteer for now - but the whole proceedure is set up against her, and she has to fight it in order to be able to spend an afternoon a week in a quiet local charity shop serving customers.