Hello everyone, let me briefly share our story with you. We are a young family with two children. We have been living in our rented home for almost nine years. The little house in the photo is really our home; my partner’s bike has been parked outside for almost nine years now. After nearly nine wonderful years, the house is being sold and we will no longer have a home within eight months and will have to move out. This breaks our hearts and those of our children. All our memories are in this cosy, homely little house. It pains us to have to leave it behind. We had a chance to buy the property; we could get a social housing loan, but the deposit required was higher than we had expected. As I am on disability benefit, our family’s budget is limited and it is very difficult to raise the full down payment together. One of our children also has an autism spectrum disorder; adjustments and changes are very difficult for him. We were feeling positive because we were normally going to have the full deposit ourselves thanks to an inheritance. But that was taken away from us a week ago; we have to reject it because of my lovely mum’s ex-partner, who caused a huge debt to be incurred by him, which we would then have had to take on because he ensured that my dearest mum, whom I had to say goodbye to far too young at the start of this year . He incurred the debts whilst they were still married; we never knew anything about it – this was the last straw. Our whole dream has been shattered because of this. My mum was already very ill; she’d been through a really tough time, and I was there for her day and night. I also told her she should get a divorce because her ex-husband really wasn’t right in the head. We managed to make her see that quite quickly, that she was free of him – he was making her even sicker. We didn’t expect him to do this to my mum and us, to pin all the debts he’d run up on us. First he let my mum down, now this. Our spirits sank completely, filled with sadness, anger, disappointment and fear. He has taken all that away from us. We hope, through this appeal, to be able to keep our home with our children, so that we can continue to make happy memories and give our children security regarding their future home.And that we can remain in our safe environment, our little cocoon. Every little bit helps. We would like to thank you all, on behalf of our family, in advance, and also for taking the time to read this. It has been nothing but a year of setbacks: losing my mum and our safe home.We hope to achieve our goal with your support, so that the knife is taken out of our backs and we can find peace again in our familiar nest with our children. This is our only chance left. That this home can and may remain our own safe haven.

He has taken all our savings.

Every little bit helps. Thank you in advance.