31 Jan 2025 20:57:36
A little public information broadcast before we beat Brighton tomorrow!
Today I secured £40 p/w (indefinitely) from a charity for a 75 year old widow who lives on her own in a ramshackle house. Formerly married to a Navy chap, she has been too proud to ask for help since her hubby's death. With the old lady unable to afford decent food and suffering from malnutrition, her carer told me on the quiet that she was coming around to cook meals but often there was no food to cook.
Can you believe that this is happening in our country today?
Please try to help the weaker members of our society when you can Gents.
31 Jan 2025 21:23:10
Well done Legolas, you are a good man ??It’s a disgrace for any of citizen of the 4th wealthiest country in the world to suffer in this way. Especially a widow to one of our ex Services men. Absolute disgrace mate!
31 Jan 2025 22:33:34
Well done Legless. Class.
01 Feb 2025 01:21:46
im a South West lad living in the North East and up here it makes me sad looking at the state of our once great nation (because we have definitely fallen off the cliff) food banks, poverty, homeless, deprivation, the elderly suffering. there's doing our bit and there's a serious f**king need for the government to step up because there's only so much we can all do.
01 Feb 2025 07:14:23
Well done Legolas. Have you asked the carer if she’s claiming attendance allowance too? It’s either 72 or 108 per week. 5 billion goes unclaimed each year. Probably because it’s a 30 page form, and people don’t think they are entitled to it. Trust me, most people are.
If she is not, she definitely qualifies.
I remember your name from previous posts, so I’ll send an initial friend request on FB if that’s ok mate?
You can then point her in the right direction and I’ll give you advice on how to make sure she does the form correct!
And for the benefit of any other people who may know someone who may qualify ( and it can simply be something as simple as a husband or wife has to help their partner get up out of a seat, or have to clean them up after eating, help them bathe etc).
They DO NOT need a paid carer coming in to qualify! Attendance Allowance is badly misnamed!
It’s worth looking into!
01 Feb 2025 07:46:41
Amazing work legolas. This country should be looking after our own without any any hesitation.
01 Feb 2025 09:12:41
One day I was at the lifeboat station when two very elderly people came in. They told me they had never had children and how do they go about donating their home to the RNLI after they die.
I told them how to do it but their concern was they wanted the funds to go to us, their local lifeboat station and they knew all donations end up at Poole and get distributed to whoever needs it most.
Now even Poole (HQ) aren't turning down a 400k donation so after a few days of sorting out legalities these two old dears left their home in their will to our station. Just for the record, 90% of all RNLI donations come from someones will.
01 Feb 2025 09:32:52
Nice one Legolas! ? well done mate. We have to look after our own and they should take priority over the free loading, dingy scroungers who get everything they want as soon as they step foot on one of our beaches. It’s a bloody disgrace!
01 Feb 2025 11:05:35
Brilliant Legolas!