In 2010, various personal and health issues resulted in Broadacres resident Derek Fisher experiencing a mental health crisis.
This led to him getting in financial difficulty with, in his own words “the bills mounting up” and he also struggled to maintain his home in Coxwold, near Thirsk. He had started hoarding things, so his home was piled up to the ceiling with magazines, books, CDs and other possessions.
The 56-year-old former serviceman was at his lowest ebb until Broadacres was made aware of his situation and we slowly helped him to get his life back together.
We provided money and budgeting advice to help him reduce his household debt and we helped him to clear his home and his garden, which had also become neglected.
Mr Fisher’s home is now a very different one than it was at the height of his problems. We are also in the process of installing a new kitchen in his home.
He says: “Broadacres gave me a support worker, Peter, who helped me address the financial difficulties I had got myself in to.
“We prioritised my bills and come October 2018, I will have paid off seven of the debts I had built up and there will be only one left which I will then also be able to settle.
“Because of my mental and physical problems, I hadn’t even seen things building up in my own home, but I had become a hoarder, the type you see on television and say that would never happen to me.
“But with the support of Peter, my housing officer Christine and the Broadacres maintenance team; I was able to get my home back to how it should be, and I am now in a much better place both physically and mentally.
“The way Broadacres have helped me to transform my life is nothing short of miraculous.”
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