DIY SOS - Episode Guide

A new eight-part home improvement series that rescues people - and their relationships -from DIY nightmares, presented by Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles. In the first programme, the team of design and building experts come to the rescue of a Banbury family whose daughters' bedroom provides a major challenge.

The home improvement series that rescues people - and their relationships - from DIY nightmares, with Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles. The team of design and building experts retrieve a Devon man's kitchen from the excesses of his DIY enthusiasm, including an archway made of cardboard.

The home-improvement series that rescues people - and their relationships -from DIY nightmares, with Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles. This week the team of design and building experts help a Durham couple convert an uninhabitable room into a playroom for their large family.

The home-improvement series that rescues people from DIY nightmares, with Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles.

This week the team of design and building experts help a Market Drayton couple put in a new front door, a task complicated by the new door being too big for the gap.

The home-improvement series that rescues people from DIY nightmares, with Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles.

The team help a couple from Wakefield in Yorkshire who have left their new kitchen units sitting in packaging for a year.

The home-improvement series that rescues people from DIY nightmares, with Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles. This week the team visit a farmhouse near York to repair the damage wreaked by an enthusiastic amateur in the room where his wife teaches the piano. Can daughter Julia get her father to admit that he is capable of making a mistake?

First in a new eight-part series of the home improvement show that rescues people and relationships from DIY disaster. The team visit Plymouth to salvage a kitchen restoration. With Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles.

Continuing the new series of the home improvement show. The team visit Heme Bay in Kent to rescue an entire house in a state of chaos. With Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles.

The team reconstruct a Devon kitchen ruined by fire and floods. With Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles.

Nick Knowles visits a Walsall couple to oversee the renovation of their hallway- ajob started ten years ago.

DIY disaster appeals include a plea from a woman whose bathroom was ruined by an ex-boyfriend. With Lowri Turner.

Nick Knowles visits a Bolton couple to salvage a living room and dining room which is looking like a building site. Plus more DIY disaster appeals. With Lowri Turner.

Nick Knowles visits a Walsall couple to salvage a hallway renovation that started ten years ago. Plus this week's

DIY disaster appeals include a bedroom for twins divided in two by a garden fence. With Lowri Turner.

The team head north on a two-day mission to plaster, patch and paint the walls of a Runcorn couple's home.

In the last programme of the current series the team come to the rescue offirefighters in Yorkshire who have tried to turn their old recreation room into a community hall using a fire axe. Presented by Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles.

Lowri Turner , Nick Knowles and the team return to tackle more DIY disasters in the first of an eight-part series. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the team sets to work on a bathroom makeover for a woman whose own attempts have been foiled by the illness.

Lowri Turner and the team tackle more DIY disasters.

Rats and ruins await the rescuers when they try to turn a bedroom into a lovenest in Abergavenny in South Wales. There's also a chance to vote for who gets help next, including a Leeds lady with a stairway to hell.

Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles unveil more DIY disasters.

This week, the team get to grips with a kitchen that has suffered at the hands of an amateur enthusiast.

Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles unveil more DIY disasters.

The team takes to the water to repair an engaged couple's canal barge. Plus, viewers can vote on who gets help next.

Lowri Turner lends a hand as the team tackle a flat in Edinburgh that has become a no-go zone. Meanwhile, Nick Knowles introduces more candidates for help.

Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles tackle more DIY disasters.

Building a bathroom sends Nick into a sewer for two days.

Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles and the team tackle more

DIY disasters

A kitchen catastrophe tops tonight's disaster bill. Can Nick Knowles and the team help out? Meanwhile, Lowri Turner presents more candidates for help, including the demolition man who brought his work home with him.

Lowri Turner , Nick Knowles and the team are back with a new eight-part series of the show that rescues people from their own DIY disasters. This week they are in Cardiff to tackle a kitchen which looks like a bomb site. Plus a chance to decide which of three families most needs the team's help.

Lowri Turner , Nick Knowles and the team meet a couple whose bathroom sink has been hanging from a rope for two years, and create a restful living room in a house built on a rock in Llandudno in North Wales.

Lowri Turner , Nick Knowles and the team take on one of the biggest challenges ever undertaken on the show - fixing a lethal staircase. Plus, a bedroom that was once a bathroom, dangerous masonry and awkward bathroom noises.

Lowri Turner , Nick Knowles and the team visit Pontefract in West Yorkshire to help a couple whose living room is in dire need of attention after an attack with a jack hammer.

While Nick Knowles and the team transform a garage extension in Surrey into a children's playroom, Lowri Turner finds out about the mother who took a hammer to her hallway, the wife who wants action on her bathroom rennovation and the man who axed his bannisters.

The team take a trip to Nottingham where Claire has dreams of transforming her living room, breakfast room and garden into an oriental idyll, with fish as the centrepiece.

Lowri Turner surveys three more DIY disaster zones, including a lady with radiator pipes in the middle of her bathroom, a chaotic hallway and a chef who left his partner with cupboards made of broom handles and cot pieces.

Nick Knowles and the team come to the rescue of Barbara from the Wirral, and convert her gloomy loft into a bedroom. Meawhile, Lowri Turner meets the man who believes he's a DIY expert and a hopeless painter and decorator from Kent. Then there's the playgroup in need of space.

As the present series draws to a close, Nick Knowles and the team have to brush up their mountain-climbing skills when they tackle a farmhouse at the foot of Cader Idris , Snowdonia. With despairing owners Sarah and Rhys and their children holed up in a caravan, Billy puzzles over the wiring and work begins to turn their shell of a building into a comfortable family home.

Lowri Turner , Nick Knowles and their teams return for a new eight-part series of the home improvement show.

This week, it is a kitchen belonging to a couple from Old Trafford, Manchester, which is in serious need of renovation. Plus there's three appeals from people looking to have their DIY disaster transformed by the experts the following week.

This week Nick Knowles effects a conservatory and dining-room makeover, while Lowri Turner meets contenders for the viewers' vote from Bedfordshire, West Yorkshire and Norfolk.

This week, Lowri Turner and Nick Knowles attempt to restore harmony to a house in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset that has become a building regulators nightmare.

This week, Lowri Turner helps a woman who tried to build a playroom for her grandchildren and Nick Knowles assists a school to renovate a classroom in a converted toilet block.

Nick Knowles and the team are in South Yorkshire to restore order to a family's kitchen, while Lowri asks viewers to vote for one of three deserving DIY cases to be helped.

Lowri Turner meets a woman whose DIY disasters have rendered her kitchen almost unusable and Nick Knowles converts a post office storeroom into a dust-free play area.

Nick Knowles helps a couple in Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, who are being driven apart by home-improvement, while Lowri Turner asks viewers to vote for which one of three DIY amateurs they feel is the most deserving of assistance.

The series comes to an end as Nick Knowles and the home-improvement team travel to Suffolk to help a family right their DIY wrongs.

Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner return with a new eight-part series giving advice to families living with botched DIY projects. Tonight a family who were forced to use their shed as a kitchen when their dream conversion went wrong.

In the series advising families on dealing with botched DIY projects, Nick Knowles and the team are in Preston, Lancashire, to help a couple with a draughty, dirty empty space that they'd like to be a bathroom. With Lowri Turner.

Nick Knowles assists when an accident puts pay to a couple's bedroom plans. Lowri Turner asks who deserves help: a wife with an open-plan en-suite bathroom, kitchen-wrecking Gareth or a toe-tapping troupe from Kent.

Nick Knowles visits a converted shop in Manchester with a sinking floor, while Lowri Turner assesses three potential DIY enthusiasts who still have much to learn.

Can a kitchen come between an engaged couple?

Nick Knowles plays Cupid in Wales, while Lowri Turner presents more candidates in need of help, including a woman whose fitted wardrobes are neither wardrobes nor fitted.

Can a sitting room be sorted out before a bride's family arrive for the wedding? Lowri Turner presents more candidates in need of help, including a woman who has spent four years living with a kitchen with work still in progress.

Nick Knowles , Lowri Turner and the team launch a rescue operation as a groom with good intentions, but no talent, prepares to welcome his bride's family into the DIY disaster area that is his sitting room.

For the last in the series, Nick Knowles and the team are in Slough to complete an unusual dream-house project.

Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner return with a new seven-part series that remedies abortive attempts at DIY. Tonight the team assists a couple who tried to modernise a perfectly good house, and there's a chance to vote for the next recipient of aid, including a man who lives in fear of Wednesdays.

Nick Knowles visits Lewes. East Sussex, where a family have been sharing a bedroom since work on an extension was tragically halted by death. Meanwhile, viewers decide which of three DIY disasters Lowri Turner 's team should tackle.

Nick Knowles responds to ten-year-old Dan's plea for help with his "House of Horrors". With Lowri Turner.

Lowri Turner meets DIY victims, including a woman whose removal of a wall turned her bedroom into a tourist attraction on a bus route. Nick Knowles and the team are in the west Midlands to help in a kitchen that has beams made of dung.

Lowri Turner meets DIY victims, including foster parents whose youngsters have special needs. Plus viewers decide which of three people most needs help.

Tonight's victims, include Jason who was promised a new bedroom - in the family's coal shed. Plus Lowri Turner asks viewers to decide which of three people most needs help.

Brian from Halifax is grateful for help from Nick Knowles - -the four women in his life have been piling on the pressure since he started work on a new bathroom. Plus Lowri Turner asks viewers to select the DIY disaster that most deserves rescue.

Susan fell in love with Wayne on a canal boat. But have her feelings waned since his less than successful attempts at home improvement? Nick Knowles and the team head to Bradford to see if they can help in the last of the current run.

An eighth series gets under way with Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner offering more help to victims of home-improvement disasters. In a cottage in deepest Suffolk Nick and his team attend to unfinished business, while Lowri meets three families who've had a DIY catastrophe and asks viewers to decide which of them is most deserving of assistance.

Nick Knowles and his team are in Bristol, where Carolyn and Adrian found their dream of buying a house and doing it up turned into a horrible reality when time, inspiration and money all deserted them. And Lowri Turner meets three more families who've had a DIY catastrophe and asks viewers to decide which of them most deserves assistance.

Mother of two Cherie needs the team's help in finishing a bedroom project. Her husband Jon has injured his shoulder and she is finding the room-sharing with the children rather a trial. Lowri Turner , meanwhile, asks viewers to decide which of three families most deserves assistance.

Jo Bolton made the mistake of popping out to the shops while her husband Julian knocked down a few walls in their Bath home. Two years on Nick Knowles finds it's still a ruin, devoid of any Roman allure. Lowri Turner , meanwhile, asks viewers to decide which of three families most deserves help.

Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner offer more help to victims of do-it-yourself disasters. Nick and the fix-it team drop in on childhood sweethearts in Addlestone, Surrey, whose decorating skills left a lot to be desired, while Lowri and her builders "rescue a room" and ask viewers tojudge which of three women is most deserving of home-improvement help.

Bathrooms are battlefields in two households. Lowri Turner meets Mary, whose husband plays a mean banjo, knows all about speedway - and is useless at DIY. Meanwhile,

Nick Knowles races to the rescue of Janet in Nottingham, who is forced to share a bedroom with her daughters.

By all accounts, Vera's house should be a palace - after all, her husband Doug has spent the last 17 years trying to finish numerous home-improvement projects. Will

Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner help to rectify his shoddy work?

A real "Shirley Valentine " met her dream man on a Greek island - but his DIY skills leave something to be desired. Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner host the last of the series

Nick Knowles and the team's first mission is in Cardiff, where a couple's lounge is virtually uninhabitable. Meanwhile new recruit Kate Mclntyre introduces three DIYchallenged families hoping to win the viewers' sympathy.

Stratford-upon-Avon throws up some unfinished loft bedrooms for Nick Knowles. Plus, Kate Mcintyre has three more household catastrophes vying for the viewers' vote.

The team have just four days to build a kitchen from scratch in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. But with all their sneaky trips to a nearby health spa, will they finish on time?

Nick Knowles and the home-improvement healers call on a Pembrokeshire family who still haven't completed a renovation they started 25 years ago, and Kate Mclntyre meets three more Dl Yers hoping to win viewers' sympathy.

Thomas Christy's attempts to transform a disused shop into a home have left the place in danger of collapsing.

And with a baby on the way, his wife Rachel's patience is wearing thin. Enter Nick and the team to put things right.

When Daniel Carty , a construction consultant, began work on converting a former railway cottage in Surrey into a modern home, his wife had every faith in him. But many busy weekends have passed, baby Bradley has arrived and the lounge/diner has yet to be started. Cue Nick and the team.

Nick Knowles and the team have just four days to build a handmade kitchen from scratch for DIY-challenged Debbie Robins in Cheltenham.

In Derby, the team assist on a project to restore a Victorian terraced house - at one time divided into bedsits - to its former glory.

Nick Knowles and the team are in Aldershot, Hampshire, to help restore orderto a domicile which the family's ten-year-old son Dan describes as the "House of Horrors". Lowri Turner has a race against time, meanwhile, in Walthamstow in east London to save a couple from a predatory shower.

Nick Knowles and his team are off to Blackpool where foster parents have youngsters with special needs. Lowri Turner heads off to Chippenham in Wiltshire to rescue a bride-to-be from the lounge from hell.

In Retford, Nottinghamshire, Nick Knowles and the team convert a grimy coal shed into a teenager's bedroom.

Brian from Halifax is grateful for help from Nick Knowles and the team - the four women in his life have been piling on the pressure since he started work on a new bathroom.

Planning problems, quitting builders and financial issues have hit a self-build home in Bristol. Mother Sarah is desperate to get her children settled but partner David can't work quick enough. Can Nick Knowles and the team help?

Scott is caring for his partner Gemma while she recovers from a brain tumour. But his DIY attempts to make her more comfortable have resulted in chaos. Can Nick Knowles and the team help?

Nick Knowles and the team finish off an aborted loft conversion for Margaret McCann in Glasgow, while Brigid Calderhead introduces three new families hoping to win tonight's viewers' vote.

An open-plan living space in Torquay has hit the skids for the ambitious Lesley and Mark Feasby , so Nick Knowles and the team get to work.

The team try to turn a Dickensian attic into a trendy teenage bedroom in a house in Fleetwood, Lancashire, where the father's job as an oil-rig worker means DIY tasks are often left unfinished.

Does builder Steve really need the team's help? His wife Angela, a collapsed chimney breast, a sagging ceiling and a ruined living room suggest he does. With Nick Knowles and Brigid Calderhead.

Laurence Goulding 's 20-year project to build his own home in mid-Wales was recently hit by a devastating fire. Can Nick Knowles and the team reverse some of the damage? With Brigid Calderhead.

A couple who moved to a bigger home are running out of DIY impetus. Can Nick Knowles and the team sort out the lounge? With Brigid Caiderhead.

Keith and Torsten's botched attempt to revert a bedsit-ridden three-storey house in Manchester back to a proper home has resulted in a precarious stairway and a hall that's more like a danger zone. Little wonder they crave a restorative visit from Nick Knowles and the team. With Brigid Caiderhead.

Tonight's kitchen-sink drama centres on Odile, who's quit France to settle in Leeds. Her ex-partner's enthusiastic yet woefully inept DIY has left her sans cuisine - for six months the frazzied single mum has been microwaving meals in her lounge and washing dishes in her bathroom. Cue Nick Knowles and his trusty power tools.

In dire need of TLC, a community centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, gets a visit from Nick Knowles and the team. The centre has a great football team, but the clubhouse is in such a state that they're reluctant to invite other teams to play. We also meet families pleading for the show's help.

Two-year-old Mia Phillips from Pembrokeshire suffers from cystic fibrosis. She needs constant care, and as a result her bedroom is crammed full of daunting medical paraphernalia. Parents Merrilee and Chris want to build a separate play area for their daughter. Cue Nick Knowles and his team of trusty workmen.

An incomplete extension means that Elsie and Duncan Pinches have put up with a kitchen lacking any natural daylight for 13 years. Nick Knowles and the team set to work on bringing a ray of sunshine into that dingy space. At the same time, they treat the couple to a dazzling new country-style kitchen.

Faced with a pricey housing market, Kate and Craig settled for a property that hadn't been worked on since the 1930s. It turned out to be a money pit, and with the couple's savings gone, work ground to a halt. Enter Nick Knowles and the team to transform a tired lounge-diner into a modern space with an art deco twist. But will it suit a potential new arrival?

Daniel and Eve Luke bought a big old house divided into flats with the plan of converting it back into a beautiful home for their family. A year later the house still has no proper bathroom. Can Nick Knowles and the team realise Eve's dream of a hot bath?

With five kids, single mum Sarah has no time for DIY, but her family desperately needs a dining area. Cue Nick Knowles with an African-themed design.

A kitchen needs to be fitted in a week at a house in Tisbury, Wiltshire for a stressed-out couple.

The team enlist the help of the Navy to turn an empty shell of a building into an indoor education centre at Bath City Farm. With Nick Knowles.

More help in the home is at hand as Nick Knowles and the team travel to Rushden in Northamptonshire to help the Wiggett family, whose plight won a special audience vote at the end of the last series. Can the experts help mum Glen and dad Dean, who for the last three years have camped out in the lounge while trying to do up their bedroom?

Nick Knowles hits Eastbourne in East Sussex to help a family whose home is overrun by 1960s and 70s memorabilia, and abortive attempts at DIY.

In Bolsover, Derbyshire, Nick Knowles converts a difficult loft space into a room for a seven-year-old boy who has had to share his parents' bedroom.

A building site of a kitchen in Cleethorpes gets renovated to save its owner from a life of fast food and takeaways. Presented by Nick Knowles.

The team arrive in Gloucester to help rescue 16-year-old Amy and 12-year-old Nick from single mum Mel's hapless attempts at DIY, which have left holes where the fireplace used to be, plaster falling off the walls, and shelves and curtain poles held up by adhesive alone. Presented by Nick Knowles.

Shahzad and Waheeda Ismail are desperate to finish off the work on their home. With Nick Knowles.

Nick Knowles and the team visit East Harling, Norfolk, to help Carl and Michelle Moorhouse convert a garage into an ideal room for their six-year-old son.

The team come up with futuristic plans when a Norfolk man with quadriplegic cerebral palsy needs his garage converted into a special bedroom with easy disabled access. Presented by Nick Knowles.

Nick Knowles and the team head down to Llanwrda in South Wales to assist Angie and Paul Bowles with the renovation of their old farmhouse.

Children's TV presenter Fearne Cotton lends a hand as Nick Knowles and the team come to the aid of Jason and Toni Meekings from Ipswich who, with four children, are finding space is incredibly tight. A new series is scheduled for the autumn.

Maria, mother of young quadruplets, is on her last legs. The team attempt to turn her neglected bedroom and en-suite bathroom into a relaxing environment in which Maria can remind herself that she is still human. With Nick Knowles.

A massive job in Swindon for Nick Knowles and the team as a lounge is renovated for Michelle Lovell. But there's bad news in store from the building inspector.

Two years after buying their first house, the now penniless Crawley brothers, Daniel and Adam, have still not moved in. The last of their money went on a fiat-pack kitchen which has already started to fall apart. Can Nick Knowles and the team sort out their woes?

A disused telephone exchange in Navenby, Lincolnshire, awaits the team. Owner Maaike Zaan 's failing health has brought renovation to a halt. Can Nick Knowles and co create a multi-functional room with eco-friendly heating for her?

A busy paramedic has struggled to cope with cowboy builders and their handiwork. Nick Knowles and the team visit Grays, Essex, to help Tina renovate her disastrous living and dining area - and leave her with the downstairs of her dreams.

The team help a Manchester couple whose attempts at renovating have ruined their kitchen. The challenge for Nick Knowles and the team is to fit a dream kitchen in a week and help them function as a family again.

Nick Knowles and the team head to Pembroke Dock to renovate a faulty and mouldy bathroom.

The team are in in Clevedon to help transform a shell of an extension into a funky lounge with a huge media centre.

Stuart Gamster lives with his three growing lads and began to build an extension to get more space. Then tragedy struck when wife Hilary died and work ground to a halt. Stuart is now so busy with everyday life, there is no chance to complete the work on the extension.

Nick Knowles and the team are in Southampton to save Sarah, Paul and daughter Caitlin from their bare-brick lounge. The aim is to create a comfortable and relaxing lounge with an open-plan dining area given a Japanese twist.

Nick Knowles and the team help a single mother from Ipswich, who began demolition work on her kitchen but had to give up due to a bad back.

A dark, dingy garage is turned into a safe but far from boring place for a girl with Down's syndrome. Elisa and Andy Jones have been renovating it for the last six years but with little success until now.

"Where do I begin?" asks Phil Erasmus about the family kitchen? He has done some work but with time at a premium it's time to call in Nick Knowles and the team to create an ultra modern kitchen diner.

This week Nick Knowles and the team are in Plymouth. The Wroe family have hit a string of disasters building their two bedroom extension. However their build became insignificant when the family had the heartbreak of losing their baby daughter Imogen aged 15 months. Now back on their feet work has started again but the build is over budget and with the arrival of their new baby David the couple now share their bedroom with him and their daughter Kirsty. The challenge is to give Kevin and Tracey Wroe what they have been desperate for, space for themselves and their family.

Nick Knowles and the team visit Rossendale in Lancashire, where Craig Barwell and Vicky Trayner have a big task on their hands. After a succession of DIY disasters they have to live on Vicky's mum's sofa, putting their relationship under heavy strain, and have no money to pay anyone to finish the work. The DIY Team are here to finish the last room in their house, the lounge. Will Craig and Vicky eventually move in and start their life together?

Nick Knowles and the team visit Chelmsford. A devasting year has left Karen and her children unable to carry out the necessary work to complete their kitchen, so Nick and the team come along to finish the job and give Karen the kitchen of her dreams.

Home improvement mishaps remedied as Nick Knowles and the team travel to Ramsgate to give Sharon and Steve a room to renew their wedding vows in. The original DIY SOS designer Brigid Calderhead is back and she's got her work cut out restoring period features to create an elegant Victorian reception room with a modern edge.

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Nottingham to help the Johnson family finish their bathroom that got destroyed by a flood when a water pipe broke.

As Mark and Vicky try to create a bigger bathroom in order to provide wheelchair access for their eight-year-old son who has a brain tumour, a flood sets them back and the bathroom remains a building site.

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Swansea to save the day for the Harris family. A catalogue of disasters have meant that their supposed children's bedroom and play area is still bricks and mortar.

A leaking sewer flooded the house, ruining all the work they've done and halting progress. The room also has a mezzanine level which proves to be a challenge for Brigid to design.

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Stoke-on-Trent to create an open-plan kitchen-diner for the Harris family.

Their youngest daughter suffers from a condition which means she could stop breathing at any time, so she cannot be left unattended for a second. Two rooms have been knocked into one, but that is where the work has stopped. It is up to the DIY SOS team to finish what the family started, but can they make their dream a reality?

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Surrey to help two long-distance lovers by turning a river barge into a familly-friendly love boat.

With one half living on the boat and the other living two hours away, the DIY SOS crew try to steer their relationship away from the rocks by renovating the bachelor pad into a calmer vessel.

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Wolverhampton to help a family complete work on a garage conversion.

Paul and Pauline Whitehouse have six kids, including a daughter with Down's syndrome and twins with learning difficulties, but ran out of bedrooms as the family grew so decided to turn their garage into a kitchen - only to run out of cash.

Can the DIY SOS team put an end to the Whitehouse family's TV dinners?

The team is in Lymington to restore harmony to Carrie and Rob's household, as the couple's relationship has been in tatters since they attempted a makeover of their kitchen. The pair knocked down a wall and ripped up a floor before realising they couldn't live in the house anymore - so Carrie's headed home to her mum's and it's up to the DIY SOS crew to bring her back by sorting out the mess.

New designer Julia Kendall's first design is an open-plan kitchen inspired by natural elements. But will she survive her first week with the burly builders?

Home renovations with Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team, in Sheffield to help sort out the Pickering family.

When husband Stuart was in hospital his wife Shelley got stuck into some DIY and knocked down the entire internal wall in their flat, so for the past three years they have been sleeping in full view of their neighbours. Can the DIY SOS bunch make their dreams come true and give them a peaceful place to rest?

Designer Julia Kendell has some fabulous tricks up her sleeve to convert this catastrophe of a bedroom into an Orient-themed spiritual space for Stuart and Shelley to relax in.

Home renovations with Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team, in Wigan to ease Caroline Davies's worries. Her husband Mike would not stop doing DIY despite doctors telling him it was putting his life in danger following heart surgery.

So, having banned him from working on their house, she has now been left with a half-finished living room. On a mission to prove that blue isn't cold, designer Julia Kendell is intent on turning a drab room into a stunning showstopper.

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Essex to help the Taylor family. Window cleaner Kerry fell 25 feet from a ladder and is confined to his wheelchair. With no bathroom downstairs he has to wait until wife Jacquie is home to help him. So it's down to DIY SOS to turn the garage into a bathroom in five days.

Designer Julia Kendell's mission is to create a contemporary shower-room with easy wheelchair access, but with no compromise on style.

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Gosport to help Cathy Walton, whose partner died in a freak accident having just started work on their new home. Cathy, partial to a touch of glamour, is now bringing up her young family in the middle of a half-completed loungeroom.

Can designer Julia Kendell help the team create a living space which is family friendly without skimping on the sparkle?

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are in Upchurch, Kent, to help Neil and Leslie Sheppard. Neil was digging the footings for an extension last year when he accidentally dug too far and the front of the house fell down. He has worked day and night to get four walls up whilst the family has to live apart. Can the team and their winsome designer Julia Kendell come up with a fresh and stylish kitchen fit for all the family in just five days?

Nick Knowles and the team are in Romford to sort out the Morris family's DIY disaster. They have been trying to convert the loft of their bungalow into a space suitable for Sharon's 17-year-old autistic son Perry, who doesn't have a bedroom of his own.

It is down to the DIY SOS crew to create a place for Perry that will help him live as independently as possible, whilst still keeping him in the family home where he feels safe.

Designer Julia Kendell and the team need to turn an attic into a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

Nick Knowles and the team come to the aid of Debbie Jones, who lives in West Bromwich with her 8 year-old son, Tyler. Debbie's heart condition makes it impossible for her to do the work needed to turn their home into somewhere Tyler can bring his friends back to after school.

Can the team beat the 7-day deadline and fix the mess to create a living room in which Debbie and Tyler can spend quality time together?

Designer Julia Kendall is on hand to create a minimal yet comfortable Indonesian-themed lounge that both mother and son can enjoy.

Since his wife died shortly after giving birth to their sixth child, Paul Makings has been valiantly holding the family together as they grieve. But he's facing even more problems - living in a two-bedroom house he has started to extend, and forced to sleep on the sofa. Nick Knowles and the team are joined by more than 100 locals in Misterton, Nottinghamshire, as they take on their biggest home build ever. However, they have to battle against a blizzard to complete the job in nine days

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team are back for a two-part special with their most ambitious build ever, and this time they are joined by two special royal helpers. The team are taking on a whole street in Manchester and turning run-down empty properties into homes for veterans.

The team rally the local community to get stuck in and are also helped by Prince William and Prince Harry, who volunteer on site. In this show, the trades come together to build homes for two former soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), before also helping them to find new careers in the building trade.

But with numbers of volunteers lower than what's needed and the buildings proving trickier than anticipated, it's turning into the toughest build yet.

Nick and designer Charlie Luxton transform the home of Richard and Jude Ford. In 2012, Richard suffered a devastating brain stem stroke that has seen him confined to a wheelchair. The team aim to help Richard gain back his independence and privacy and to help the family with their three sons out.

The team head to Birmingham to help a family out who are in dire need of a makeover. Charlotte and Chris are parents to premature twins who have global development delay, which has slowed down their progress walking and talking. As their home is currently so cramped, their progress is hindered even more, so the DIY SOS team and the local community join together to help makeover the families home.

Nick Knowles and the team issue a call to arms and recruit friends, family and local trades to help transform the homes of families across Britain.

Home renovation series. The team are in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with DIY SOS going for Paralympic gold to help build a home fit for a champion. Seventeen-year-old Scott Jones is a young disabled athlete who is already a world champion and who is eager to be self sufficient at home. But the house's current design is proving challenging. The DIY SOS team's ambitious build is a large side and rear extension to provide Scott with his own bespoke bedroom, wet room, access to an adapted kitchen and, most importantly an amazing, state-of-the-art gym studio set in the garden to help him achieve his dream of going to Tokyo 2020. As ever, it is an immensely challenging build, so will the DIY SOS team be winners in Scott's eyes once the home is renovated?

Rachel and Andy Smith's middle child Isaac has spastic quadriplegia, a severe form of cerebral palsy and Andy or Rachel must be available at all times to care for him because he sleeps fitfully in a hospital bed in the family living room. It's making family life stressful including for Isaac's siblings as the design of their home is in conflict with what this family really need.

The DIY SOS team and hundreds of volunteers turn the Smiths' lives around by building an amazing extension and a beautifully landscaped garden.

This week the DIY SOS team join forces with two world-famous British institutions: Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children and the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, as Nick Knowles and the team transport Chris Beardshaw's gold medal-winning garden across London and crane it over buildings and rebuild on the hospital's roof top.

Despite the brilliant world-class care, there's nowhere private outside for the families to escape from the constant noise, bustle and bright lights of this huge hospital, which is why the DIY SOS team and Chris Beardshaw have taken on this hugely ambitious build. The logistics are tricky and the volunteers emotional, but they hope to offer the many brave families a bespoke, lush roof top garden as a space of calm respite.

Nick Knowles, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and the ‘Purple Shirts' team venture to Blackpool to tackle DIY SOS: Million Pound Build for BBC Children in Need.

This special DIY SOS looks at some of the lives of the nation's young carers supported by Blackpool Carers Centre, which receives funding from BBC Children in Need.

The programme features 11 year-old Tyanna and 10 year-old Gracie, who cook, bathe and generally care for their disabled mother Suzanne, a former nurse who was diagnosed with osteoporosis, as well as their dad Sean, who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

The DIY SOS team and hundreds of volunteers work tirelessly to renovate an enormous neglected site owned by the Carers Centre, from a dilapidated building to an unrecognisable, inspiring and colourful base for Tyanna, Gracie and many other youths with caring responsibilities.

Nick Knowles, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen and hundreds of volunteer builders help a 17-year-old girl whose Ehlers-Danlos syndrome has left her trapped in hospital.

When 36-year-old Terry Guest, father of two daughters, had a catastrophic brain injury, he was left with severe disabilities. As his house was unsuitable for him, the only care available was an old-people's dementia care home, where he remained for several years. In need of more day-to-day care and a place of his own, his sister Tracey stepped in to offer help, but her house was also unsuitable. Now DIY SOS and their team of generous South Yorkshire volunteers and suppliers are stepping in to adapt Tracey's home and also, in a DIY SOS first, build Terry his very own separate pad at the end of the garden. Battling adverse Yorkshire weather, the team's electrician Billy's tricks with the electrics and a massive misjudgement in ordering materials, this unique build definitely tests the team's resolve.

Nick Knowles, Laurence Llewelyn Bowen and hundreds of Warwickshire volunteer builders help Chloe, whose cramped family living room has been her prison for the last two years. When Chloe was 18 years old, doctors diagnosed her with mastocytosis, a rare genetic disorder. As a result, Chloe now requires constant access to oxygen, must be fed through a tube in her chest and is prone to seizures that cause her joints to dislocate and stop her breathing. Chloe currently lives with her mum Susie, stepdad Phil and stepbrother Josh, but the current design of this tired house means her future in the family home is not guaranteed. So to improve Chloe's life and future-proof her care and accommodation, the DIY SOS team redesign the entire house to provide Chloe with independence, thanks to her own self-contained apartment, complete with bedroom, wet room and sitting room. As ever, it's a challenging but fun build, with mismeasurements aplenty and a barrister volunteering as a barista.

Nick Knowles and the team help to transform a family's home. In Monmouthshire, Nick and the team help Charlotte, who's fighting to recover from a stroke she had giving birth to her twin boys Teddy and Fox. Charlotte's stroke left her with brain damage, speech loss and partial paralysis but finally after months of intensive rehab, she is back home with husband Rob and the boys. Physically, she is slowly teaching herself to walk and battling hard to regain her speech. Her other battle is with the design of the house, as the cramped, cluttered rooms are unsafe for Charlotte to move around and there's nowhere for her to do her physio, hampering her recovery. That's where DIY SOS step in. Building a home will bring this fractured family together and help Charlotte get better, but it's going to take an army of volunteers and as ever they've got just nine highly-stressed days.

On the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, Garry and Kyle first fostered then adopted four vulnerable children because they wanted to give them the best life possible. Unfortunately their tired, crammed three-bed bungalow now threatens their family's future. Nick Knowles and the team take on a DIY SOS first - and one of their most ambitious home builds ever. The team are going to demolish the bungalow and in just nine days build an entirely new bespoke five-bedroom home for this inspiring family.

Kidney failure has meant that midwife Sascha has to endure intensive dialysis at hospital just to stay alive. This intense dialysis for hours on end, five days a week, places her body under immense stress with the constant threat of life-risking blood clots. If this continues, Sascha, a mother to four children, has a life expectancy of just a few years. However, Sascha could do self-dialysis daily from her home, and the increase in frequency and the decrease in intensity would mean her life expectancy and lifestyle would improve dramatically. So that is where DIY SOS and the generous volunteers and trades of Billy's home turf, Welwyn Garden City, step up to help one of their own. In an emotionally charged episode, Sascha's family home is completely renovated and extended to include a dedicated home-dialysis room for Sascha, which offers her a lifeline and extra years with her loving family.

In Shropshire, three amazing school children and an energetic head teacher inspire the DIY SOS team and hundreds of volunteers to help 12-year-old Matthew return home from hospital for the first time in three years, after suffering cancer and a stroke. Matthew has yearned to return home, but as his house is completely unsuitable for his complex medical needs and equipment, he is stuck in hospital. His schoolmates fundraised wherever they could and campaigned to get Matthew home. Now the DIY SOS team join their crusade. With a Doctor Who-inspired interior design, enormous community spirit and the power of friendship, this is a DIY SOS Big Build to inspire.

The DIY SOS team and volunteers in Bristol help to transform the home of 24-year-old Ryan, who has spent the last five years in hospital 50 miles away from his family, after a CT scan revealed that a build-up of fluid and pressure had caused brain damage. His devoted mother Rachel has spent the last five years commuting on public transport to see her son, and the family is torn apart. In order for Ryan to return home, the house needs a downstairs extension with all the bespoke care provision that Ryan will need: physio space, wet room, family space and the ability to access the entire ground floor. If the family does not get this work done, Ryan will remain in hospital.

DIY SOS is back on veteran street in Manchester to build the final home on the road for a decorated former soldier and his young family.

Two years ago, with the help of Prince William and Prince Harry, DIY SOS launched their most ambitious project yet - transforming a derelict street into a vibrant community for veterans and local people, creating new homes and a veterans' support centre.

Now, with the project almost complete, Nick Knowles and the team return to build the last remaining home for amputee and single dad Simon Flores, whose foot was blown off by a roadside bomb during a patrol in Iraq.

The team descend on Swansea to build a centre and supported housing for young people in care and leaving care. This special episode shares the stories from some of Wales's most vulnerable young people as well as the founder of the Roots Foundation Wales, a charity part-funded by BBC Children in Need that supports young people in and leaving care.

Amanda, mother of four and wife to local builder Vic, was training on her bicycle for an iron man when her brakes failed on Bury Hill, West Sussex. Travelling at 40 mph, she lost control and smashed into asignpost which catapulted her into bushes. The enormous impact meant Amanda broke 11 bones, punctured a lung and snapped her collarbone and her back. In vast pain, Amanda lay there motionless and described the sensation 'like my spinal fluid was leaking from my body'. It was two hours before Amanda was found by another cyclist. On arrival at A&E, she was told that she had been left paralysed. That evening, a national newspaper featured her selfie from the hospital with a beaming smile advising friends: 'I don't want to make anyone sad or upset but I'm not going to walk again', and she was determined to continue to compete as a para-athlete.

With husband Vic now tending to the four children, Amanda spent the next six months at Stoke Mandeville spinal unit. Even during her darkest days at the unit, she would help to feed other patients to keep busy and to remind herself that - in her mind - it could have been worse for her. After two gruelling 12-hour back operations, she returned home in a wheelchair. Her home was now unsuitable, so that is where the DIY SOS volunteers come to the family's rescue.

On 22 March 2017, 35-year-old PC Kris was returning from a ceremony to honour officers who deal with public order issues where he was awarded for his exceptional work as a police liaison officer in the Metropolitan Police. What should have been a happy day shortly turned to horror as Kris became a victim of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge in London. The horrific attack left five people dead, including police officer Keith Palmer and many more with very serious injuries including Kris. Kris was with two colleagues crossing the bridge when he was suddenly mowed down by the terrorist in his speeding car. Kris took the brunt of the collision. It left him with two broken legs, numerous head injuries, a lacerated elbow, a damaged left shoulder, sternum and tragically a damaged spinal cord which has left him wheelchair-bound. His north London home is now inaccessible, so that is where the DIY SOS volunteers come in, to help this injured police officer get home to his loving family.

In West Bromwich, Crystal Chambers, a mother of two young children, was given the devastating news that she had advanced stomach cancer, which had spread to her spine. Tragically, Crystal passed away a few weeks later, aged 32. Her children, eight-year-old Deago and four-year-old Ameira, were left potentially without a home as well as a mother. It was therefore left to Crystal's mother Sandra and 19-year-old brother Ziggy to take the children into their tiny two-bedroom home. This may be one of the smallest houses DIY SOS has taken on, but this small house offers up big challenges to the team. With a family stuck in a tiny home, unable to deal with their grief, the team and generous West Bromwich volunteers step in to drastically improve this family's home and guarantee that Sandra can keep the family together.

With the aid of large construction companies, generous suppliers, volunteers and the Duke of Cambridge (who visits the site), the team is building a new home for the Dale Youth Boxing Club, a west London success story. The boxing club takes on anyone who wants to train and has been helping youngsters in the area for over 50 years to acquire the discipline that boxing training brings. The club started the careers of James de Gale who won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing, and George Groves, current WBA Super Middleweight champion, as well as producing many national champions.

In the second episode of DIY SOS's biggest and longest ever build, the team are attempting to build a two storey flexible use centre that can be used by the community however it decides. Research indicated that there wasn't enough low cost space that different community groups could use in the area so with the help of generous construction companies, suppliers and volunteers, the DIY SOS team attempt to do what they can to help.

The team are joined by the Duke of Cambridge, who previously helped out on another build in Manchester for veterans. The Duke meets local residents and talks to firefighters who were amongst the first responders on the night of the tragic fire.

This week, Nick Knowles's DIY SOS team, the flamboyant designer Laurence Llewelyn Bowen and volunteers pitch up in Avening, in the idyllic Cotswolds, to help project manager Ben, whose life was changed in a split second by a freak accident on holiday.

In Hessle, near Hull, the DIY SOS team help roofer Darren and his three sons, including 17-year-old Oliver who is severely disabled.

In Torquay, the team help multiple sclerosis sufferer Stuart, his daughter Lauren and his mother, Lin, who cares for Stuart despite being completely blind.

Nick Knowles takes to the road to catch up with families and communities featured on DIY SOS over the last two decades and to find out what happened after the cameras left.

In Plymouth, Nick Knowles, his DIY SOS team and hundreds of Devon volunteers help the Morfey family.

DIY SOS and BBC Children in Need embark on a truly challenging build for the young homeless people who are being supported by local Blackburn charity Nightsafe.

Young homeless people are often overlooked, vulnerable and very much in need of help. The borough of Blackburn with Darwen is one of the poorest in the country, and there maybe dozens of young homeless on the streets nightly. Across the UK tens of thousands of young people are sleeping rough or in temporary accommodation each year. It's a growing problem that needs addressing. Luckily, the people who run local charity Nightsafe want to make a difference, but their current accommodation facility is full to capacity, so they are desperately in need of a new centre.

As ever, it's an immense challenge, relying on generous volunteers and kind donations. This build is also supported by multiple faiths, as the trades take on the heavenly task of converting an old church hall into a brand new home for six young homeless people.

Tonight DIY SOS and the Bromsgrove volunteers help Karis, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a baby. 28 years later, Karis still lives with her mum, Karen, but now her health is deteriorating and it's making caring for Karis almost impossible.

Older sister Jo is desperate to give Karis a new home, but Jo's own house is wholly inaccessible for Karis - the doors and corridors are too narrow for her wheelchair and there is no disability access to the upstairs. It means this family are facing their worst nightmare: the only way to make sure Karis doesn't have to go in to a residential home is to rebuild Jo's house and reunite the sisters once more.

Nick Knowles and his team help the Newcombe family in Kent, who need to adapt their home to be able to care for their two-year-old son Arlo, who has condition that means his lungs must be constantly supported by breathing apparatus. Trailing breathing tubes, equipment the size of tumble dryers, and no downstairs bathroom have turned their once safe home into a risky space for the family. Nick and the team have amassed a huge group of volunteers for Arlo and the family, as they set to work creating a safe and inspiring space that Arlo and his family can call home.

Prepare for spadefuls of community spirit, bucket loads of tear-jerking moments and the chance to witness Nick Knowles in a wet suit. It's surf's up when DIY SOS descends on Caswell Bay, South Wales, to build a stunning surf centre for the BBC Children in Need funded charity, Surfability - the country's first fully-inclusive surf school, who teach disabled children and young people the joy of surfing.

While the DIY team and hundreds of local trades and volunteers build a state of the art surf centre, Nick and designer Gaby meet disabled youngsters, whose lives have been profoundly affected by lockdown restrictions, who get to experience the unadulterated joy of surfing for the first time.

Surfability was founded by Ben 6 years ago; he was determined to shatter the assumption that disabled people can't surf, and has gone to extraordinary lengths to prove it. Ben and his dedicated team help over 500 people a year and are world-leaders in adaptive surfing, working with the International Surfing Association to develop standards for the sport.

Currently Surfability operates out of a dilapidated and disused bus shelter which lacks electricity, running water and it frequently floods. It's unfit for purpose and so together with the wonderful volunteers and companies of South Wales, the DIY SOS team build a brand new surf centre, ensuring that Surfability can continue to help disabled people from across the country feel the freedom and unadulterated joy of Surfing.

Tragedy has been a part of life for Caroline Blanchard and her children Reece and Paige. Caroline has twice had to make the heart-wrenching decision to turn off life support for people she loves, first in 2007 after her daughter Natasha suffered severe head injuries in an accident in their garage, and then four years later after husband Paul had a heart attack in their conservatory.

Now she, Reece and Paige have to live in the shadow of their grief: the garage and the conservatory where the two cruel tragedies occurred. But help is at hand. Nick Knowles and his band of volunteers, along with award-winning garden designer Arit Anderson, are on a mission to renovate the home, including demolishing the garage and conservatory so that Caroline can be free of the painful reminders and make a fresh start.

Nick Knowles, his trusty DIY SOS team and hundreds of kind volunteers renovate the home of three orphaned boys in Cornwall.

After 15 years of fostering 103 children, Stephen and Lynn Smedley were looking forward to their well-earned retirement together in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. However, in April 2017, their dream dramatically changed, when Carrie, their beloved 32-year-old daughter died. Since Carrie's death, life has been very tough for Carrie's three sons. They are grieving their mother's untimely death while sharing a small 10x12ft bedroom with a triple bunk bed. There is only one bathroom, and Lynn has been forced to do the washing and ironing in the wooden shed due to lack of space. Stephen cares for the boys while Lynn works 23 hours per week as a healthcare assistant. They are struggling, so they need the home reconfigured and enlarged to accommodate three growing, grieving boys. Now DIY SOS and their generous volunteers are stepping up to help.

The Sweet family in Weston-super-Mare are happy and truly inspirational in their close-knit community. Louisa (14), Max (11) and Harry (6) were born healthy and family life was good until Harry was diagnosed with a genetic condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. He is significantly hypermobile and suffers terrible pain in his joints, unsettled sleep and chronic constipation as part of his condition. He is also being assessed for autism.

The family had been struggling with Harry's health issues for three years when, in 2017, after genetic testing, Louisa and Max were diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia, a rare and life-limiting neurodegenerative condition for which there is currently no treatment or cure. It will see them become permanent full-time wheelchair users in their teens, and it may affect their speech, fine motor skills and vision. They also have enlarged hearts, spinal scoliosis and suffer fatigue as part of their condition, but like Harry they are children to be truly admired. Amazingly, Max, who is also being assessed for autism, has stated that if he dies he wants to donate his organs to save other children, but his mother Cat just can't face filling in the forms.

Cat can no longer lift the children in and out of the bath or carry them up the stairs. Louisa and Max only manage the stairs by carefully and painfully crawling on all fours, which takes considerable time and effort. Both of the boys are already part-time wheelchair users, and their tiny home will soon have to accommodate three wheelchairs.

All three children now struggle with basic normal life at home, unable to undertake simple tasks without help, and with Louisa rapidly losing her teenage independence instead of gaining it, despite the immense love and care from their inspirational parents Cat and Chris, DIY SOS and kind local volunteers are stepping up to help this truly deserving family.

Nick Knowles and the team head to Barnstaple in Devon to help Jan and Lucy, whose daily four-hour round trips to hospital for life-saving dialysis treatment for two of their daughters is taking a heavy toll on family life. Along with designer Laurence Llewelyn Bowen and hundreds of local volunteers, Nick and the crew extend their house to create a home dialysis centre, enabling the girls to be treated where they live and letting the whole family settle into a healthier and happier routine.

For the first time ever, the DIY SOS team head to Bangor in Northern Ireland, the childhood hometown of our build manager Mark Miller, to help the McCreight family.

The DIY SOS team are joined by guest presenter Rhod Gilbert in Brandesburton, near Hull, as they transform an overgrown site into a purpose-built adventure campsite.

Midwife Lindsey married ex-Royal Engineer Shaun in 2019. Lindsey had two children from a previous marriage and then had two boys with Shaun. In the summer of 2021, they began to extend their house, with a local builder working with them to put in the foundations, walls and roof, and to get the extension up to first fix. The plan was for Shaun to finish the build himself.

Several months after starting the build, Shaun fell ill. Initially, he had an operation on his kidneys and bowel, but within months he was struck down by an aggressive cancer and tragically died In November 2021. Lindsey and her four are devastated, and their grief is compounded by the fact that their home is currently uninhabitable.

But help is on hand as the DIY SOS team, along with designer Gabrielle Blackman and hundreds of local trades, volunteers and some of Shaun's old army buddies, step in to finish the job and get this lovely family back home.

Jordan Hutchison is an inspirational teenager. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, but this has not stopped him defying expectations and raising huge sums of money for charity. He currently lives with his parents, Jackie and Colin, and his siblings at his grandmother's house. He sleeps on an air bed, while the parents share rooms with the younger children. The family home is a shell after a series of building issues meant the family ran out of money with no way of finishing the work.

Dad Colin is Jordan's primary carer and has saved his life a number of times when Jordan suffered epileptic seizures in his sleep. Mum Jacqueline isn't physically strong enough to help Jordan and so works in a children's home, saving every penny to spend on finishing their home. Their current living situation and the financial stress of the unfinished build is taking its toll on the whole family, and Jacqueline recently collapsed.

Jordan is a growing lad with a very strong mind, and he just wants his independence, like any other young man his age, but he doesn't have the space or facilities in which to develop. The house needs extensive work before the family can move in. Hundreds of tradespeople and volunteers from Corby and across the UK have come to help the DIY SOS team and designer Gabrielle Omar create a house that will finally be a home.

Southmead Development Trust is a resident-led charity working to improve health, well-being and employment, and to help to keep the community strong, resilient and resourceful. The Trust recently took on the running of the Southmead adventure playground. Known locally as The Ranch, it was built by the community and has been loved and well-used by many generations of local residents. Unfortunately, the playground has fallen into disrepair, suffered from vandalism and is now unfit for purpose.

All that is about to change as Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team galvanize volunteers and skilled tradespeople from the local community and across the UK to reinvigorate The Ranch for future generations. It's a huge project that involves creating a recording studio and a forest school to sit alongside an amazing adventure playground that will keep the kids happy for years to come.

Ex-fireman Gareth and his wife Mary live with their three children just north of Morpeth in Northumberland. Their 18-year-old daughter Bobbie has complex medical and mental health issues that require constant care. Mary has suffered a stroke and now has ongoing issues with her balance and needs help to look after Bobbie. Grandmother Carol helps out but now has to also looks after great-grandmother Doreen, who has early-stage dementia. This loving family rely heavily on each other but need a house that works for all of them.

Help is on hand as Nick Knowles, the DIY SOS team and top designer Gabrielle Blackman put out a call to local tradespeople and volunteers. Together they completely redesign the house, add an extension and create a home that works for everyone.

Sue's family have lived in Fegg Hayes, Stoke, for six generations. To help tackle issues of food poverty, isolation and mental health in the area, she set up a charity, Sylvester's. They have taken over a patch of wasteland in the heart of the community with the aim of creating a community centre and garden with room to grow vegetables and space where old and young can share knowledge and experiences.

Nick Knowles, the DIY SOS team and designer Sian Astley are determined to get the job done, and not even three of the worst storms to hit Britain in recent years is going to stop them. A straightforward build turns into a battle against the elements, but they are determined to help this community to help themselves.

Peter, a former car mechanic, is the primary carer for his family 24/7. His wife Sarah and daughter Suzanne are both suffering from myotonic dystrophy, a long-term genetic disorder that affects muscle function. Peter also looks after his elder brother Steve.

Peter started building an extension to adapt the house to everyone's growing needs, but the pressure of looking after his family and trying to complete the build has got too much. There just aren't enough hours in the day, and now his own health has taken a turn for the worse. He is unable to finish the build, and the family's future is in genuine jeopardy.
The DIY SOS team and hundreds of volunteers from near and far set to work, battling through stormy weather to finish what Peter started.

Tragedy has been a part of life for Caroline Blanchard and her children Reece and Paige. Caroline has twice had to make the heart-wrenching decision to turn off life support for people she loves, first in 2007 after her daughter Natasha suffered severe head injuries in an accident in their garage, and then four years later after husband Paul had a heart attack in their conservatory.

Now she, Reece and Paige have to live in the shadow of their grief: the garage and the conservatory where the two cruel tragedies occurred. But help is at hand. Nick Knowles and his band of volunteers, along with award-winning garden designer Arit Anderson, are on a mission to renovate the home, including demolishing the garage and conservatory so that Caroline can be free of the painful reminders and make a fresh start.

In this Children in Need special, the DIY SOS team joins forces with Radio 2 for a mega build in Leeds. Nick Knowles and his team set to work to transform a derelict site into a brand-new base for the young women's charity Getaway Girls. This is one of the show's biggest projects ever, and it's a massive challenge to complete in just ten days.

Radio 2 are on a mission to recruit the hundreds of volunteers needed from their millions of listeners, while a brigade of the station's presenters dons hard hats and high viz. Tea-time presenter Sara Cox, Scott Mills, Rylan, and DJs Spoony and Trevor Nelson get stuck in, shovelling dirt, plastering and painting. Meanwhile, across town, the Getaway Girls choir are preparing a song to perform in front of the volunteers as a thank-you on reveal day.

Singer-songwriter Emeli Sande coaches the girls through their nerves, explaining she was a nervous teenager once too. Finally, the day of the reveal arrives. Zoe Ball arrives in town to broadcast the choir's anthem live to the nation and to get a sneak preview of the spectacular new building.

Before, the Getaway Girls activities had been spread out across town using temporary spaces. Now, the new building in Seacroft provides a much-needed safe space with facilities all under one roof: a music and media studio, counselling and activity rooms, a creche, offices and a garden. Getaway Girls is a Children in Need funded charity. It's been supporting young women across Leeds for 35 years; raising aspirations,
providing opportunities and offering vital counselling and support.

DIY SOS and Strictly partner up to bring some sparkle to an inclusive performing arts charity in Wallsend, transforming a derelict sports club into a creative home for their young people.

In their tenth build for BBC Children in Need, DIY SOS partner up with Radio 2 to create a bespoke counselling centre for bereaved children in Derbyshire.

The BBC's flagship home renovation programme sees EastEnders stars join Nick Knowles and the team in Essex for a Christmas special edition of DIY SOS.

Joined by an army of volunteers, the cast members from Albert square help to create a new building for local mental health hub Butterfly Effect Well-being. In need of desperate repairs, the crew work to turn this unloved space into a warm and welcoming space for the local community.