I am truly embarrassed to be writing this, at the age of nearly 30, living at my mums with my two wonderful little boys, who are my absolute sunshine in all of this darkness.

but this is me trying to find and gather a solution..

I’m a full time mummy, a proud, phenomenal one but this is impacting my mental and emotional health massively.

As it would with any mother, or parent.

I'm a mummy that cannot afford the rent and deposit for a new home for me and my two boys. We are currently living out of suitcases, shuffling around blow up beds: I know there’s so many of us out there that can’t, I wish I could extend everything I have to help others in my position but I don’t even have enough to extend to myself.

Due to the restrictions of universal credit and part time working, I cannot afford to make and save the money I need for our 1st months rent and deposit as well as pay the excess rent that landlords require now as the cost of renting has increased tenfold, whilst still paying debts, extra travel, costs of food and children’s needs, as well as my own. I do not have friends and family that can lend me or gift me that money.

With the cost of living that we’re all facing, having no secure home, travelling on 8 buses a day with my 1 & 5 year old to get my little boy to school, and still trying to find the time to survive and thrive is naturally going to take it’s toll which it is, I’m doing all that I can to secure a safe and sound long term home that I can afford for me and the boys but it seems pretty impossible with all the avenues I’ve gone down.

To some this is a handout, sadly to me, this is me asking for the help I genuinely need and cannot do for myself at this moment in time..

I cannot afford to move far away from my mum, my main and only source of family. She’s poorly, I’m here taking care of her as much as I can. She’s my rock, and I think in some ways I’ve been hers, but I cannot live here where my mum suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, she’ll soon be rehoused and we will then have nowhere to go again.

I really appreciate anybody and everybody that’s got this far, read this much and cares about my situation.

Thank you.