Watch: Resilience – An uplifting story of young mums on one of the UK’s oldest council estates

A short documentary of young mums overcoming stigma through friendship on one of the UK’s oldest council estates, Hillfields in Bristol.

Video 26th March, 2020

Neil Maggs, Matt Buckner, The treatmentworx and Adam Cantwell-Corn

The latest is a series of Cable original documentaries exploring neighbourhoods in our city, presented by Neil Maggs.

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