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In the summer of 2015, West Sussex wife and mother-of-four Amanda fell off her bike while training for an endurance contest, breaking 11 bones, puncturing a lung, and snapping her collarbone and back. Paralysed, she spent the next six months at Stoke Mandeville's spinal unit, while her builder husband Vic looked after the children - but determined to compete again, she returned home in a wheelchair. However, the family home is no longer suitable for Amanda - so that's where Nick Knowles and the rest of the DIY SOS team come in, strengthened by a number of local tradesmen.
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team transform the home of a police officer who was a victim of the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack in March 2017, suffering horrific injuries which left him wheelchair bound. Months after the attack took place, Kris still resides in hospital as his north London home is inaccessible for him, so the team and hundreds of volunteers work to get Kris living back at home to his family.
Nick Knowles and team, together with West Bromwich volunteers, helps a grieving grandmother and her family who are making do in a small house. Sandra's daughter Crystal Chambers passed away in 2015, so she and Crystal's 19-year-old brother Ziggy are doing their best to raise youngsters Deago and Ameira amid cramped conditions.
The team helps project manager Ben in Avening in the Cotswolds, whose life was changed in a split second by a freak accident while holidaying in Cyprus. Ben slipped and fell head first into the shallow end of a pool, breaking his neck in three places, and for him to move back home from Salisbury Spinal Unit, it needs to be adapted with a front access and a two-storey extension with through-floor lift, along with all the bespoke care provision that he will need, including a home-office space.
In March 2015, football fan Simon Dobbin was at an away game when he was set upon by a gang of men in an unprovoked attack that left him brain damaged, paralysed and unable to walk and talk. After many months in hospital he is finally back at home in Mildenhall Suffolk, where he receives round-the-clock care from wife Nicole. But the family home is unfit for Simon's care and rehabilitation - so that's where Nick Knowles, designer Laurence Llewelyn- Bowen and the DIY SOS team come in, strengthened by a number of local tradesmen.
