We’re a young family of five (with baby #4 on the way, due very soon).
We’re facing an unexpected and incredibly emotionally draining crisis. We’ve privately rented for years, but last week, our landlord decided that she is selling our home and has given us a no-fault eviction notice. We have to vacate the property 2 weeks before our baby is due. With rising costs and the fact our family business has struggled since covid, we simply can’t afford the deposit needed to move somewhere safe, we can’t afford moving costs, we have no where to go if we can’t raise these funds. Myself and my husband are trying to get through this with all of our might. Our children are happily making mud pies in the paddling pool outside, blissing unaware of our situation, the way that will stay.
We’re reaching out for help to keep our family together and to give our children, a secure place to call home. 1 of our children starts secondary school in September and she should be proudly celebrating, not packing up her bedroom, with the only place to go to being emergency housing. I realise we aren’t the only family facing this crisis but I have to ask for help or I’m simply not doing enough, we can’t give up. I, their mother, am trying to raise money, to put a deposit down on our next rented house and to tide us over for a few months. And we have security from there and a home for our new baby. Right now, we wouldn’t even have the option of renting again without a deposit, we don’t have any savings, as Covid cost us enormously. We kept our staff employed when most companies made redundancies, but our employees were mothers and fathers just like us and we didn’t leave them penniless. However, this cost us enormously. Our business is in green energy home improvements, and during covid, we couldn’t go to see peoples homes and therefore were losing sales. This led us down a path of debt, which we’re still recovering from. Up until now, we’ve been keeping our heads above water, but the last thing we needed was moving costs and to somehow raise a new deposit.
I’ve never made a crowd funder page before; I don’t know if anyone will see this page, but if anyone does and has anything to spare at all, every donation, big or small, brings us closer to stability again, which is what I wake up and pray for every day. Right now, (pregnancy hormones not helping), I feel like we’re staring into a black hole of the unknown, with emergency housing becoming a more likely scenario with each day that passes.
Please take care of yourselves before us, I know what it’s like to be clinging on in these times. But if you can help us, we would from the bottom of our hearts, be eternally grateful.
Thank you.