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Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

Tributes to Bristol Drugs Project pioneer Maggie Telfer, who has died at 63

Tributes have been paid to Maggie Telfer, the chief executive of the groundbreaking Bristol Drugs Project.

Maggie founded the Bristol Drugs Project back in 1986 and went on to be awarded the OBE for her work challenging the inequality and stigma faced by some of the most vulnerable people in society.

She was a manager of a homeless shelter in Swansea called, SASH (Swansea Accommodation for the Single Homeless), who helped start a pioneering project to help drug addicts in Bristol which grew to become one of the leading initiatives in the country has died at the age of 63.

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