Philip Johnston Secret Millionaire Part 1

I'm cigars go you know go get every last but Philip Johnston isn't your average care worker he's worth 20 million pounds and lives a luxurious life in Glasgow but life for this multi-millionaire was not always so fortunate having spent his life in foster care he'll be going on the cover looking for those working in care today others and first up from when I was six weeks old if I fear he'll find out about charities working with kids going through the care system what team juice goes normally going bare that and meet people who've dedicated their life to the cause my mother wasn't a bad person she just had an addiction and that's what I really really struggled with while working alongside of the carers Phillip will meet those whose life they change but he'll also hear about the issues they face at two years of age that trade could tell you how to have sex how to take handle it as well as coming to terms with some of his own your mother must be very very proud love to meet [Music] mine doujin sees in life are really Macao Oh mommy it's a that's how he addresses girl that's a midlife crisis car you but I love it 43 year old Philip Johnston lives in a million-pound mansion in Glasgow I've got a whole bunch of guitars and I'm a big green fan so I've got a brine me replica guitar here that I got this guitar seals seen by wet wet wet and so you know and he's gay I'm a big wet wet wet fun Phil's wealth stems from one thing his love of technology I've been in the mobile phone business since 1985 when mobile phones but ab-soul a huge has you met we take mobile phones and we recycle them use will get that removed those scratches and take all the scratches out yeah it's perfect you have growing the company from zero to and 20 million pounds over seven years so yeah take a quote let it float of it despite recently selling his company Phil's family think that when it comes to money he's proud to live up to the Scottish stereotype if he can avoid paying anybody to fix something he will of great change makes it because I don't want it please some repaired gate command you leave do you play something Phil may not splash out his cash needlessly but when it comes to his sons he doesn't hold back [Music] when many course were more like friends that's the fortunate thing about way from the success I've got as I can support the boys were the dreams one of the reasons Phil is so close to his boys is because his own start in life wasn't so fortunate he was given up for fostering at six weeks old it was a good boy but between 15 years old and 18 year olds as I've kept them away he eat them these were just teenagers going crazy my mom forced with me I was six weeks old she seen this newspaper it was called the Glasgow citizen and it was a tiny little odd van and said foster parents wanted and she called the number and that was that foster them to the joint sting clan there was a council estate it was you know a rough neighborhood but I will never sorta love and my family what I mean isn't unlike many children taken into the care system phil has remained with the same foster family all his life what about the time I went to see Michael Buble mayor and you pulled the red lacy knickers to throw up I nearly died I was sore and violence as well oh my god I'm sending my Maltesers but last year Phil's foster mom Nancy was diagnosed with cancer we were all devastated she fought her Anna ran away and then it came back aggressively within two months just this year the prognosis says is that she's always gonna have cancer and it'll always come back and we're always going to be fainting it so I suppose again for success what uses money this is my attempt at Folden with first-hand experience of the care system Phil is curious to find out how it's changed over the last 40 years Elston eat yes and he turns to giving his and I love that t-shirt I bet pampered actually to be honest here [Music] Phil's going to Swansea where over the last decade there's been a 55% increase in children taken into care here he'll look for and be introduced to people working within the care system and who may need his help where we going no please okay let's turn he'll like his drugs once the heart of Welsh copper mining the loss of heavy industry has led to economic decline and high unemployment any particular should avoid all of it I'll be a pawn so when you was going there long enough to you look at the big steel in the car I think someone was shot here this is that a clean scene I'll be Scott alone the neighborhood I really couldn't oh you didn't oh all right where's the shops down there okay see you later your home oh yes oh let's just go up to you guys well what's going on 9000 is this on TV I think I don't know thank you swimming this summer it's a documentary I was there for stopping guys go I grew up in the cones let's deal with this so as it you don't shut board laughing yummy Julia no I've just moved in just don't off gosh rod yeah we know you live in a shed though the ask Malta was just trouble Whitney harm just pulled them what you're going to do your 14 your heads know why up straight you're going to be standing around there just wondering what my stuff you can go up there only I'd find it really tough to see my boys hanging around in corners like that and with nothing to do so we had before I got it - honestly [Music] [Music] call birth millionaire businessman philip johnston is living undercover in Swansea he was fostered as a baby and with the number of children taken into care at a record high he wants to find out about the issues they face today can you stick a tenon on it we have fire fire I'm reading an article about the Ritz foundation the founder was in the care system a sailfin in foster homes because of a parent's alcoholism and neglect and abuse as a glided we saw her house Emma Lewis set up the roots foundation just over a year ago the charity now supports 12 children in a pioneering scheme kinship care philip has asked to meet with Emma as part of a documentary he's making looking into the care system the roots foundation we work with young people in care young people leaving care young people in kinship care which is this something that people really talk about it's scary people who live in an alternative family lifestyle maybe with their grandparents with their aunties or their uncles but they need support as a foster carer would do as you know as anyone would do looking after young people 52 year old kin has fostered her grandson coy when she works nights she drops him off at roots before we start cooking what should we do before we start love me today emma is giving these kinship care as a break and teaching the kids valuable life skills have used made lasagna before being in the care system myself I identified that people still need help I for a long time only knew how to cook a vegetable soup and added like half a pot of salt into it well Ukraine already know just stopped it under there it stops your claim we took them down to the supermarket yesterday and said need to think about ingredients incorporating vegetables and meats and learning how to cook them and having fun really most about the object come on don't really know something guys go you know do I get every last but you know so what is your passion about the care system and others and first up from when I was six weeks old and then sex weeks became six months became you know my entire life for my mom so social services looked after me and but I don't feel like I was in kid I was with a family and the same family all my life and I was very lucky it does hood gnome it does all the cooking that's correct man be our secret weapon and help us right when Chani isn't giving cooking advice she's running the tea forest community center which houses roots and several other local charities past that cheese right what if I spot one tie isn't very much with some of those life skills that people need just trust and the adult world in our house for the first time mm isn't motivation or stories and fantastic she's doing something of her and an amazing [Music] I'm home making here now taking the National Florida wheels hopefully it stays alive and give us some real words a good luck Phil has read about a charity offering supported living to young adults leaving the care system [Music] I've been in cured myself and well I wasn't I was foster there was fostered all my life so I the wallet offers a safe haven to young homeless people housing 11 supervised flats it helps young adults make the transition to independent living there is a vacancy so she keeps the roof over her head paul sheridan has been managing the project for 10 years he's on call 24 hours a day and he's always on hand for support often acting as a valuable father figure hey government responsibility for foster children ends at 18 the wallet helps those not yet ready to live on supportive welcome by Tears we couldn't do it but then that gives you experience and we get ya you know extra time and input from other people are brilliant yes especially if you've got personal experience of things that gives you a little bit of understanding with so many young people great so are you coming up a chest you've got 12 flats or something at all I'll say 11 self-contained flats and one last warning mergency bad you and everyone that comes here did they get a place is that enough capacity up now we've usually got people waiting to come in we cannot meet all the need all the time they come with a range things it could well be that they've left care and behavioral issues what is when is is 16 to 25 but to be quite honest I think we're getting more and more 16 to 17 year olds in ER the deep end phil has been asked to help cover the nightshift with experienced project workers Sean thank you so what same juice guys normally going better thanks very much the wallet team is always looking for ways to help the young people express themselves tonight sean is helping with a music project it's based on the cycle of homelessness so it's really walking through the streets trying to get a job and then finally coming to the project here and being given a home Hannah's pretty good on the song now but we need to work out some harmonies right yeah yeah yeah I can certainly play the guitar on it yeah yeah who are you gonna get to do harmonies Phil settles in for his first night shift look at the CCTV here basically covers the outside of the project and inside as well I think really the ethos and what you know hopefully what you get a hang of tonight is the project is here for the young people they're not here for us so it's us that have got to be adaptable and flexible although there are limits [Music] it's been a very quiet night tonight I've looked at all the cameras and there's not a lot going on just what kind of problems do you think they're being drinking alcohol may have some people have been upset and we've had people who self-harm before there's been over to you before as well but we haven't going to be with bad substance misuse here at the moment but they know if there's an emergency they come down to not gas and then we're leaving the emergency services or if we can deal with ourselves we'll do it ourselves then home sweet home for the Nate [Music] [Music] seven Oh morning to you how are you how did it go vibes brilliant thought they're going up to screen for them all on part in like our it's not just a safe haven it's actually some phenomenal life skills to be honest we and I don't know teenagers no click off and then what I know angels right because we are and I know that do all the things I've written is your does but you know what has a backbone they are absolutely phenomenon blown away Phil is interested in meeting charities working in the care system but a story in the local papers caught his eye Margaret and Tony Davis are fundraising to pay for their daughter's cancer treatment and may have to sell their home I'm gonna give a call to the appearance of Tina my mom's already think canceled just know for the same team so it's going to open up and was great tough tough one for me forty year old mom of four Tina has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor now her daily care forced to Margaret her seventy year old mom Margaret spends any spare time she has fundraising for a potentially life-saving treatment for Tina ya know the way this year we love another bike right because it was really enjoyable runner it was for you when you you know hello I'm looking for Tony hi nice to meet you are you these Glasgow accent Tina's parents Tony and Margaret are continually looking for new ideas to help them reach their 30,000 pound target researched on the internet and we found this hospital in Paris that did this some fiber-optic procedure we look to her home head and they're going in the fiber-optic wand and they destroy the tumor we've raised just over fourteen thousand pounds on a target of thirty thousand pounds for Tina's treatment try to sell yard soon as I said your house is only bricks on water it didn't matter really where did you raise the the fifteen thousand that you've raised so her from my lead door-to-door sponsorship in goes talkback do some ab styling from a table that was Marcus urges cooked his core with a good idea of a pub crawl in fancy dress with a bucket collection sorting so would you have any ideas behind of cures it always good yeah enjoy barbecues you could have an eight in here you know where you got a band or somebody to just play we play alive and we've already we've got one yeah all the stuff used other interns amazing your daughter's very lucky you know amazing people and amazing support they're like you know my mom whose tank noise damn over a year ago with and women cancer so I can sympathize and understand exactly you know what you're going to do we don't you do never give up you know I was gonna be you ask a Dave Meyer great when I am petrified about yeah it's the length you do you go to you know you'd like to join me she's very persuasive Margaret also uses her persuasive skills to get fill out looking for sponsorship what do you think alright nice bonus for scary guy for PETA's their sons yes yes they give you the money though okay thank you again for senior all about yeah come to any more than what you do ever ever no I can't I'll see you before you go Saturday okay but don't more the amazing things your dinner amazing thing tell you useless entities just reach over and just take muggers paying where we're gonna run the doors and just hit down to spit out done right now then my sister still pass away she should have just maybe been in the house sent her feet up yep be home tell Doris she's not she's a banging down doors and she's been doing it since October I do it time and time again I do [Music] he'd admit that we've really got to know very much about Emma and the team there is foundation what they do how many kids you know they're supporting than the community I know very low today emma has organised a play session for grandparents who foster their grandchildren it's a chance to bond with fellow carers it's kind of an unsung situation because grandparents often feel that there's their duty they don't think of it as been anything something other than what's expected of them so they go through life bringing up their grandchildren as their children and doing a fantastic job but also need support as anyone else does you know grandparents such as Kim who's fostered her seven-year-old grandson Gordy just told me that he couldn't swing a swing so Ken how did you start looking after Corey my son couldn't look after him because he was an errand addict as well as his mother was a heroin addict 2 years of age he was and he come to me and 2 years of age that child could tell

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Length: 26min 32sec (1592 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 10 2018