Design mogul, 20, offers festive makeover gifts to help homeless
A LANARKSHIRE businesswoman is helping ensure homeless families have a brighter festive season.
Liv Conlon, who runs an interior design business in Hamilton, teamed up with Glasgow City Mission and high street stores to give families in temporary accommodation, refugees and asylum seekers, a Christmas make-over at properties across the city.
Liv Conlon left school at 16 and founded The Property S tag ers, an interior design business for property investors.
Now 20, and with a business turnover of £1 million this year, Liv decided she wanted to give something back to her community, and decided to ‘make over’ 100 homes.
On December 14, she partnered with Glasgow City Mission and gave away Christmas trees, cushions and strings of lights donated by Marks & Spencer, Dunelm and other companies.
She also went personally to homes to decorate them for families in time for Christmas
She said: “We just wanted to make Christmas Day that little bit more special for people who don’t have anything.
“One of the families that I went and did a home for, both of the parents have been asylum seekers for the last fifteen years.
“They moved to the UK and don’t have very high income, and they also have a son with autism.
“It’s very similar stories like that of people we help. There are a lot of asylum seekers, and people who have lost their job.
She added: “We’re all one paycheck away from being homeless, which is a terrible thought.”