The Peasholme Centre

Can you please help my client, X, to top-up her gas and electric? She is really struggling financially and is suffering from fuel poverty. X has had her Universal Credit payments stopped. She was working full time, but due to her having a heart condition, has had to reduce her hours and now can only work part-time. Winter is coming and her home is cold. X suffers from Raynaud's syndrome, which is made worse by the cold, and she can't afford to cook hot meals for herself.

Mum, on a low income, is a single parent to 3 children, one of whom has learning difficulties and autism. Mum also has learning difficulties. She has been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous 'gardener', to whom she paid £300 cash in July. He promised to provide and lay turf, after landscaping her garden. After months of chasing him (and seeking legal advice on her position), he started, but did not finish the work and now mum has had to pay someone else £500 to complete the works properly.