Howden Ward · North Tyneside
A welcome-home clean.
Two hours of peace.
Real, and we are pushing it forward.
Two hours of practical help when a baby arrives: paid work for a local cleaner, a bit of rest for new parents. First area: Howden Ward. Two hours of peace, paid hours for a cleaner — and we are pushing it forward.
This programme is not registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. We run free welcome-home cleans as a community project. All donations are paid into Tyneside Cleaning (tyneside.cleaning) — a trading company — which then funds paid cleaner hours for new parents.
Our promise: for every £30 raised, we will deliver one 2-hour free clean for a family.
Give what you can. If money is tight, a little still helps. If you have more, we hope you will give more. We match payments privately.
I want to put a little prosperity back into the North East — somehow. I don’t want to give money once. I want it to do something useful: two hours of peace, and paid hours for a cleaner.
I’ve had rough times. When everything around me is falling apart, I sometimes struggle to prioritise the little things. At one of those points, not keeping the house clean started to cause real friction with relatives. So I hired a cleaner.
It’s one of the highest-impact supports I’ve ever had — not flashy, just practical dignity when I needed it.
When I think about when that support would have mattered most, I land on the weeks after each of my children arrived — Lewis, Katie, and Harriet. A whirlwind every time: everyone coming to see the baby, nobody leaving you alone, sleepless nights, no rest.
For just two hours, I want to give new parents some of that time back — to relax, and to be with their baby. That’s the welcome-home clean.
Local cleaners get paid work. The evening software group gets a real thing to support. We start in Howden Ward, and we keep doing the work.
There is more under this than a single rough patch or one newborn week — childhood coping that stuck, a long self-engineered path I am only now fully seeing, and a choice to walk through the door with open eyes. That story lives on this page.
Free core package for new parents in Howden Ward first. Cleaners paid fairly. Software from the evening project, as we build it.
Pay to extend any clean at £15 per hour (minimum 2 hours). Paid via Tyneside Cleaning; that money pays the cleaner for the extra time.
Gift extra cleans the same way — perfect for baby showers or “welcome home” presents. Same rate; same route: paid into Tyneside Cleaning, through to the cleaner.
Prefer a general gift to the programme? See donation amounts — from £3 up, or WhatsApp another figure.
A deep clean when you come home with a newborn. Free core package. No stigma.
Paid work on programme cleans.
We start where we can show up.
Community cleans, cleaning work, and software — one evening-a-week Tyneside.
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An evening project. We write software together — mentoring, building, fun. Live work, real commercial experience.
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Free welcome-home cleans for new parents in Howden Ward. We are pushing it forward.
I had a bit of a rough childhood with older children, and I learned coping techniques that stuck. Recently I had a moment where I realised I had tricked myself into getting where I am now — over a really long time — and I still have no idea how deep it all goes.
I only just figured it out by talking so much about why I am doing what I am doing. By working back through the probability tree, I’m almost working back through my life. It’s a journey where I am just following where it goes and seeing where it takes me.
I have been watching this video and it really resonated — what he said about training for life, not for a race. I’m choosing to walk through that door. Here goes.
Donate, gift a clean, refer a Howden Ward family, or join as a cleaner. Remember: this is not a registered charity yet — payments go via Tyneside Cleaning.