Image copyright Ed Gold Ed Shaw, 29, has been living at the site for more than two years and has spent much of his life on the road, having found city life was not to his liking.
"We have 300 volunteers who visit every year as they have realised how their lives have been and because of how they'd like their lives to be. "There is a flow of people moving around who want to change their lives, and I think that will create a positive change in society."
Image copyright Ed Gold "We get about 40 emails a day in the summer from people asking if they can volunteer and two or three every week from random people asking if they can live at Tinkers Bubble, so that's an indicator that people realise it's a better way to live, even if they romanticise the idea. "It's not something that anyone can do, but it's better for mental health to live outside and getting away from the business and rush of day to day. "The hardest thing is missing having a washing machine, because of the time.
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