Omaze Yorkshire winner: Grandmother who worked with the homeless for 20 years wins £2.5m home

Yorkshire Post

A grandmother who has worked with homeless people for more than 20 years has won a home in Yorkshire worth more than £2.5 million with Omaze. Credit: Omaze

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00:00I don't even care it's raining in Yorkshire.

00:02No.

00:09We had taken a bit of a sky from work to go and play golf and I've got all these phone calls and

00:14I'm like something's going on here. The next minute we're at home and we've got all of these

00:18people coming through the gate and I thought we were getting phone calls. How wrong were we?

00:24We've been celebrating ever since. This house looked great in the pictures but

00:29when you see it in the real it really is something like out of Downton Abbey.

00:33The kitchen, the AGA, waking up to the views of the Vale and the hallway it's just huge.

00:39The kids are just going to have a field day. The dining room's so big that when we have our parties

00:44we won't have to get the garden chairs out. I've worked in homelessness for 20 years,

00:52great job. I certainly don't do it for the money. I've never had a pension but I think

00:56that we'll be all right now, won't we? We might end up selling up and cashing in because it is

01:01just a life-changing sum of money. Because of the 250k we could at least stay here for 10 years

01:06without worrying about it. It's a generational legacy for our family and the grandchildren are

01:11certainly going to have a good Christmas. We entered because we just wanted to give to charity

01:18but to win this is the cherry on top.

01:23£3.9 million is a transformational amount of money. People with a learning disability face

01:29barriers and inequality in society every single day but this money will fund Mencap's crucial

01:35campaigning work to help break down these barriers. I'd like to thank everyone who

01:41entered the AMAZE draw. You have made a huge difference. The AMAZE community has now raised

01:47over £60 million for good causes in the UK. It just really is surreal. One minute playing

01:53golf for the next minute. A multimillionaire winning this house has got to be a home in one.

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