Homeshare – Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
We are pleased to offer a new homeshare opportunity to live comfortably and affordably in Hertfordshire in return for providing some practical support and companionship (approximately 10 hours per week) to an older gentleman who is visually impaired. No personal care is required or permitted.
Available from March/April 2025.
Homeshare Location:
The home is very well located in a quiet residential street only a 3-minute walk from the high street shops, cafés and bus stops, and a 10-minute walk to Elstree and Borehamwood train station (Thameslink).
Accommodation on Offer:
Double bedroom in a large family home with double bed, wardrobe, and shelving. Shared use of main bathroom (the homeowner has his own ensuite bathroom). Separate space to study or work with desk, shared use of kitchen, and garden. There is Wi-Fi, a washing machine and dryer. A cleaner comes twice a week.
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What the Opportunity Involves:
In return for the low-cost accommodation (£199 per month), we are looking to match our homeowner with a friendly and kind sharer who is happy to help a little around the home and provide some companionship.
Our homeowner is in his late 70s and is registered blind. He is mobile and independent and spends most days visiting his wife who resides in a local nursing home, otherwise listening to the radio and pottering around the house. He is easy-going and easy to talk to and enjoys the company of others and he is also happy with his own company.
His daughter and her two small friendly dogs are currently living with him and will be moving out in the next couple of months. He would like to continue to share his home with a kind person, preferably female, who has a good sense of humour and is happy to help him with some tasks that he can find difficult, for example, the odd bit of local shopping and errands, putting groceries away, some light help at breakfast time, emptying the bins etc. He would enjoy some daily companionship from someone who would be willing to read his post to him and perhaps share the odd evening meal.
His ideal sharer will be someone who is perhaps working from home on a hybrid basis, or flexibly, who is happy to ‘muck in’ with a few chores and provide some nice companionship and conversation. A non-smoker only. A driver would be helpful (there is an automatic car available) but this is not essential.
If this opportunity is of interest, please get in touch with us ASAP preferably by email and tell us about yourself, your work/studies schedule and why you would be well suited to it.
Cost: £199 per month
This is a monthly facilitation fee for our matching and ongoing monitoring service. You do NOT pay any rent to the Homeowner. Bills are included, although you may be asked to make a modest contribution to the Homeowner towards the energy bills, and council tax if you are working.
Call us now: 020 3137 6421
Email: info@homeshareliving.co.uk
