My friend Lorraine Tabone, who has died aged 55 of bronchial pneumonia, was the founder and driving force behind the charity Lola’s Homeless, a grassroots initiative providing practical support and advice to homeless people in the London borough of Newham.
I first met her in the scorching heat of August 2020, when the true impact of Covid was starting to hit home. I had contacted her through a Facebook page, searching for a charity helping local homeless people, and had no idea what to expect. Whatever I had imagined, the human hurricane outside a council estate garage was not it.
