Unseen Tours: London's Street Voices 2011

Unseen Tours: London’s Street Voices 2011

Sock Mob Events is pleased to roll out a series of unique walking tours led by homeless guides. These are tours with a social conscience, appealing to Londoners and visitors alike, and anyone who wants to connect with people from different walks of life.

Led by homeless guides with their own distinctive styles and life histories, each Unseen Tour has its own personality, uncovering London’s hidden history and present-day reality from their perspectives.

Unseen Tours provide an alternative and exciting perspective on well-known landmarks such as Southwark Cathedral, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Hoxton Square, Covent Garden, Brick Lane, and Borough Market, and also explore the quirkier nooks and crannies of London, interweaved with the guides’ own anecdotes of homeless living.

‘London’s homeless are some of the most creative and resilient people to share our streets and we’re very lucky indeed to have such a wonderful team of them to help us uncover the richness of hidden London’ (Lidija Mavra, co-ordinator).

Unseen Tours will challenge your view of what it means to be a person living in London.

The tours also directly contribute to improving the quality of life of some of London’s most marginalised people. Tickets cost either £5 or £8 (depending on circumstances) and the lion’s share goes to the guides themselves, enabling them to make a living and improve their situations. All profits are reinvested back into Sock Mob Events, a social enterprise, to train more guides and continue to build their skills and creativity.