"I can't let them lose their home as well"

Aim

Keeping this young family in the only home they've known - £170k needed. Please be part of this miracle, thank you.

We met in a UK Widows/Widowers FB group.  My Mandy died unexpectedly-suddenly in January 2024.  Amanda Conlon (also Mandy) lost Clint unexpectedly-suddenly in July 2024.  I was 66 and a grandad, MandyC was 39 and a young mum. MandyC is the almost the same age as our eldest daughter who has four children. This resonates.  All of this resonates so very, very much.  

My Mandy and me - our family - were and are financially secure. MandyC and her family now aren't any longer. Their home - this young family - will be moved and their home repossessed in 2026 unless…

£170k is the miracle. Please watch the short video The only home they've known and please look at the “stalled” GoFundMe.  Please don’t pass by without letting the enormity of this sink in. And please be part of making this miracle happen. Thank you.

This is a huge miracle - a £170k miracle - can we make it come true?

I have donated to the GoFundMe more than my Mandy would ever have agreed or allowed, but if my Mandy (and MandyC's Clint) were here none of this would be needed. They aren't and this is. The GoFundMe is amazing and approaching £30k but rapidly running of of steam.

And time is also running out.

MandyC is "coping" with everything I am coping with:

• The air in our home changed when my Mandy died
• 21 months on I am still trying to learn how to be at peace with this new life
• My financial horizons stop when I stop - that is so weird a change
• My Mandy and I had survived the tough times - were stable and settled and proud grandparents
• And 21 months on I am not yet at peace - still a learner widower.
• And still missing my Mandy every minute of every day in ways I could never have imagined.

This Mandy has all that and so much more ...

• three children under three
• a widowed mum to six
• no living parents-grandparents
• no real "family network" close at hand
• no financial stability
• and the constant axe over her head … eviction and repossession of their family home
• obviously unable to work even part-time and existing on the bare minimum
• AND everything of the "widow" pain, loss, confusion, isolation, seismic upheaval, no more "team" - everything now "mine" - fixing, doing, deciding, figuring out - all the domestics and childcare - all the children's tears, all the  hurt, the confusion - and the silent private tears (that I know so well)

I have no idea how this Mandy still smiles, still has hope, is still kind, has so much gratitude - and hides her tears so well. Maybe because she has no real choice - she has to keep going ever day and every night.  You and me - we have choice.  The choice to help make a miracle happen - or the choice to pass by.        

Please be part of a miracle. Please donate.

Please allow this family to NOT lose their home as well as their dad, Clint - a fine father, friend, and soulmate to them and MandyC.

Thank you so much.

Paul Grace

PS - if the full sum is not possible all donations will be used to help cope with the inevitable consequences.  Thank you.

This project successfully funded on 31st December 2025