'Brightly has supported me so much since my little boy was 2. He was somewhat of a little terror and needed nursery to calm him down. Brightly funded a nursery place for my son and it helped me massively. Being on my own with him, his behaviour was somewhat challenging and it just gave me a short break each week, which is what I really needed.

When my son started school nursery at the age of 4, I was required to look for work for 15 hours a week which isn’t a problem until you think of the school holidays. I got offered a job, but then had to find someone to look after him in the Christmas holidays. I don’t drive so it had to be near me and the only one was Centre Point, but they required a deposit, I had only just moved house and it’s only a few weeks until Christmas. I had absolutely no money to fund the holiday club, Income Support wouldn’t help with the deposit, so I was literally stuck and had no idea what I was going to do until my support worker contacted Brightly, who kindly funded for him to go to the holiday club. I can’t thank them enough now I’m able to relax and I can start getting a bit of my life back after being off work for 5 years.

Thanks.'