Would love to create a Christmas miracle

Hi, my name is Traci and I am fundraising to help 3 families in Leighton Buzzard that have had a dreadful Time this year and give them a Christmas miracle. These are their stories

I am currently running an appeal to help 3 families in the town on the local Facebook sites Christmas helping hands in Leighton Buzzard, An act of kindness site and Leighton be buggered plus the Nextdoor group. I have been reaching out to the people in the town to try to help the families and have had a lot of people asking to the wishlists for the children but not a lot of actual offers. I wonder if you could ask the family if they would be able to help these families in the town that this awful event happened in please. It’s to help with presents. A Christmas dinner or just to help the families in the run up to Christmas. Here are the brief stories of the families involved.

The first family has a young mum who is now

disabled after being involved in a car accident so her husband has had to quit work to look after her and their 2 young boys ages 3&6. They like everyone else in the county are struggling to pay everyday bills and are worrying that they won’t be able to afford presents for the children. Just a few toys for the boys or to help with Christmas dinner or to put some top up on the prepayment gas and electric meters would be a massive help so it takes the worry off of the couple. The mum is already on antidepressants to try and cope with what has happened to her and the effect it has on the family. They rely on the local food bank in order to feed the family a meal a day.

The second family is a mum with 3 boys ages 7,10 and 13. The boys dad committed suicide earlier in the year after suffering with depression for a couple of years. They have had to leave the family home they shared with the dad as the mum can not afford to pay for the rent and the bills on her own despite working to jobs to cover everyday bills. She is so worried that this Christmas is going to be a bad one as it is for the boys being as it’s the first one without their dad and even more daunting that she cannot afford to buy them presents as well.

The third family is a mum with 3 daughters ages 3,10 & 15. Who has escaped a very physical and abuse relationship whilst he was at work with nothing but some of the girls clothes. They had been put into a women’s refuge and then into a hostel but the ex found out where she was and tried to snatch the youngest child so they have now been moved away for the town where her children had friends. They are in temporary accommodation in a one bed flat waiting for a property to become their permanent home without the worry of always looking over her shoulder. She relys on the Church and food-banks in order to feed the family. She hasn’t been able to put her heating on in order to cook the girls a hot meal every day and if the girls are really hungry then she will go without just so they have a bit more. She would love to be able to afford presents for her girls: