08/05/2026
🆘 A VERY PERSONAL SOS 🆘
It is with immense sadness that I have to share the following information you.
Unfortunately, due to no fault of our own we are losing our home.
Our “wonderful” landlord decided to pop a Section 21 through our letterbox, just the day before the Renters Rights Act came into force. This means we now have less than 8 weeks to find a new home, a home suitable for our children, close to their school and little friends but also very importantly a home that can accommodate TLBB and there is a lot of TLBB to accommodate!
This is now the third time this has happened to us and it’s absolutely heartbreaking, devastating and truly petrifying. We moved to our current home on the proviso that it was for as long as we needed and wanted it to be our home and to give TLBB a central location so services could be more easily accessed, to face this now after pouring a lot of love and money into a property we thought was our long term home is just so cruel.
This doesn’t just have an impact on me, my family and especially my children, this also has a massive impact on TLBB and an average of 150-200 families a year, maybe more. As a result of this situation I will not be able to accept any donations without a formal pre-agreement and will only be requesting items that are urgently needed for the foreseeable future and I would really appreciate if people could be mindful of this.
Before anyone tells me to just get a storage unit, this isn’t a long term solution, it just won’t be compatible with how TLBB operates. TLBB is ME, it is completely operated by ME, I do all TLBB work in the evenings, when my babies are in bed, during my lunch breaks - if I’m lucky enough to have a day working from home and at weekends or when I book annual leave from work to fulfil urgent referrals, I cannot have TLBB based away from home for an extended period, it just won’t work, I won’t be able to be an emergency service anymore and that just isn’t ok.
It goes without saying that I will have to move some items into storage in order to be able to continue to support families who are in a worse position than mine, until we can secure a home for our family and TLBB, this is going to cost me around £400 a month if not more, this is money I just don’t have.
I need to pay out around £800/£1000 in disposal costs for unsafe and unusable baby items which have been donated, these are currently stacked up in my garden,m because I don’t have this money spare either.
So, with reluctance, here’s my GofundMe link and this time it’s here because I need help and I genuinely need all the help I can get.
I absolutely do not want to close TLBB, I do not want to ever have to be the person who says “sorry no, I can’t help with that” but right now, I can’t see any other way but to ask you all to chip in with whatever you can to keep things going.
Despite several applications for houses in the area we remain essentially homeless from the end of June and I am petrified.
I fully appreciate this is a very long post, close to War and Peace in-fact! I am in a very dark, broken and sad place, maybe this post is inappropriate but I have to stand by my moto that “it is always ok to ask for help”, just this time it’s me asking and this is completely foreign, completely out of character and borderline shameful for me but I honestly feel I have no other option.
If you’ve read this far, thank you, that means a lot. If you pray, please pray for my family, that we will find a home, that my boys will be safe and happy and that TLBB can continue forevermore, if you don’t pray then please just send some positive vibes in our direction, we will feel them and we will appreciate them 🙏🏻
I’m not sure what I’ve done so wrong to deserve this, I’m not sure why it’s happening again, I’m not sure why I have to go through this for a third time but maybe it’ll make me a better person, maybe it’s the darkness that makes me so determined to show people there is a light. Who knows, not me!
Of course, if you have a magic wand or a suitable home we can rent from you the above no longer counts!
For now, thank you and lots of love always, you are all amazing people and I value you so much, regardless of whether you can help or not, you’re here and you’re here for the same reasons I am and that means the world ❤️
TLBB xx
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