Low cost accommodation in Surbiton KT6

A friendly elderly lady with reduced memory is seeking a Sharer for her home to offer a mix of 15 hours’ help and company each week in exchange for the low-cost accommodation.

She would value the friendly reassurance and company of having someone around her home in the evenings and sleeping in her home overnight. She would also like some general practical help around the home such as picking shopping/helping to write shopping lists, cooking and sharing around four meals each week, light cleaning and tidying, prompts and reminders, and ad hoc practical help and errands as may be needed.

The accommodation on offer is a spacious double bedroom furnished with queen-size bed, desk, chair and wardrobe. There is a shared bathroom and separate shower room and shared use of the kitchen sitting room and garden.

The property is in an excellent residential location near the River Thames, close to shops and less than 8 minutes’ walk from Surbiton train station.

The lady enjoys going shopping, pottering in her garden, watching animal and nature programmes on TV, and playing the occasional game of backgammon or cards. She enjoys a chat, and has a good sense of humour, enjoying a laugh and a joke.

As a Sharer you are free to work or study as long as you have enough spare time to give the agreed level of company and support. The ideal Sharer will be a positive, friendly, kind, helpful and reliable non-smoker who ideally shares some of the lady’s 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.

£165 per month plus contribution to household bills (£65 per month).

Council tax band – F

We are a Homeshare agency specialising in finding Sharers for people who have a spare room and would welcome and benefit from some company and practical help. As a Community Interest Company, the monthly payment goes towards the running of the scheme.