How YOU changed waking up on this special morning for this family

For 11-year-old Karl*, going to bed has been a torturous experience for much of this year.

The youngster and his six-year-old brother have been sleeping on second-hand mattresses on the floor of their shared room at the family home in Leeds.

So pronounced had the springs of those old mattresses become that both boys had begun waking up with marks on their bodies.

“They were telling me every morning the springs dig into them and wake them up every time they turn over in their sleep,” their mum told The Independent.

“They were saying they couldn’t sleep properly, and I could see they were waking up almost as tired. It made me feel desperate, absolutely desperate.”