We should probably start by telling you who we are and what our main aim is for Operation Better Life.
We are 4 ordinary people, Hutch and Janine, and Neil and Suzi. We all dream of living a better life and have decided that we have got to do something about it. Hutch has 4 children and Neil and I have 3. The main goal in our better life search is to ensure are kids have security and live a happy fulfilling life.
We all rent our houses, as none of us are, at present, in the financial position to be able to raise a mortgage. We have made the decision that to lessen the pressure on us all we should live together, a sort of commune living on a small scale! We have spent periods during the year staying with each other so we know we can all live together happily!
The thought process behind this was that it opens up alot of money saving options for us, for example, wholesale shopping, cooking in bulk etc. Pooling our incomes in order to create a better future.
Rental provides secuirty for 12 months, at the end of your 12 month tenacy there is a chance your landlord will not renew and you will be in the position that you will have to move again. This is a fact that the four of us have accepted but we are very aware in the current financial market that more and more people are renting their houses for a year and then trying to sell again. This is not providing our children with the security that we would like. We would love for our kids to live somewhere where we could all call home or as Finley says 'our forever house!' This got us thinking, we can't be the only people out there striving to improve their situation. So we plan to register Operation Better Life as a charity, money raised will be used to buy property.
The intial property, will become Operation Better Life Hq. Then we will continue to raise money to purchase a second property which we will then rent at a low cost to another family who are trying to succeed and so on and so on. The long term goal for these properties is that the tenant will be able to buy their house off Operation Better Life when they are in a position to raise a mortgage. For example: When we can raise a mortgage we will buy Operation Better Life Hq and that money will then go back into the charity to keep the cycle going. We hope that by doing this it will encourage people to bite the bullet and focus on their goals and go and get it no matter how hard or daunting it is.
So how will it work? At the moment that is a constantly evolving plan which will involve fundraisers etc but as we are starting from zero, it begins with an online collection tin.Remember the 'give us a pound' campaign on the internet a few years back? Like that. and just like the real life collection tins, whatever amount you can spare, large or small we will be very grateful to recieve it. As they say, every penny really does count and hopefully if we can make this sucessful will be able to roll it out through out the UK so more and more people benefit from it.
This blog will be used to update you on our progress and also to introduce you to ideas that will save you money every day and therefore making your life that little bit better.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for any help you can offer.
The collection is on Paypal operationbetterlife@live.co.uk
Yours sincerely
All at Operation Better Life.
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