Low cost accommodation in Ealing W5

£450 per month (including bills).

Council Tax Band: F

A warm and friendly older person with reduced mobility is seeking a Helpful Housemate for their home to give them a little bit of help – up to 5 hours a week - in exchange for the lower-than-market- rent.

This person would really appreciate some extra company, and help with a few little jobs around the house when needed, such as picking up shopping, cooking an occasional meal, simple IT, pottering in the garden or accompanying on a short walk when the weather permits. The Helpful Housemate is also requested to keep their bedroom clean and tidy, and leave any communal areas such as the bathroom and kitchen clean and tidy after use.

The accommodation on offer is bright double room with built-in wardrobes and en-suite shower room, and shared use of the kitchen, sitting room and garden with the Host and one other lodger.

The property is conveniently located in a lovely residential area of Ealing, just 7 minutes’ walk from South Ealing Station (Piccadilly Line) and 15 minutes’ walk from Ealing Broadway Station (Central Line).

The person’s use to be a biology teacher and volunteered at Kew Gardens after retirement. They enjoy reading books and the newspaper (and doing newspaper puzzles), and sitting and pottering in their garden, nature and drawing.

Helpful Housemates usually work or study and have a few spare hours each week to offer a light hand to their Host. The ideal Helpful Housemate will be a positive, friendly, kind, practical, helpful and reliable non-smoker, ideally with a few Shared interests.

If you are interested, please email a little information about yourself, your hours of availability, if you can commit for at least a year, and why you are interested in, and think you may be suitable for, this share. We can then give you more details about this specific situation.