Geoff worked as a gardener for 15 years at the University of Leeds – a job he loved.
But he was forced to leave his job and move back to York to care for his mother after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
She lived in a rented flat that Geoff couldn’t afford to take over after she died.
And with nowhere else to turn he found himself facing homelessness.
“I felt bad; I was really low,” the 57-year-old says. “I was homeless in York with foxes and hedgehogs.”
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