The DIY SOS team stepped in to help a youth club in East Yorkshire on Tuesday
DIY SOS star Nick Knowles fought back tears as he unveiled the “most challenging” build on Tuesday (December 30).
The latest episode of the hit BBC programme saw Nick and the team step in to help a youth club that had lost its home in the town of Beverley, East Yorkshire.
The Cherry Tree Community Centre once gave local children a safe place to meet up and find support, but when the pandemic hit, the building was turned into a food hub for families, leaving the kids out in the cold.
With another harsh winter on the way, Nick, designer Gabrielle Blackman and the DIY SOS regulars enlisted the help of local tradespeople to construct a new, purpose-built youth centre on the edge of the park. They were joined by Gladiators stars Jodie Ounsley, Tom Wilson, Lystus Ebosele and Jamie Christian-Johal – aka Fury, Hammer, Cyclone and Giant.
Just before the build began, Nick fought back tears as he shared the importance of the project, after growing up on an estate himself.
“I grew up in a place like this. The kind of places that people say, ‘Oh, don’t bother building anything nice there, it will just get destroyed,'” he said.
“You have to build stuff in tough places, you have to make a difference,” Nick continued, before pausing as he became emotional.
The crowd began clapping, before Nick said: “I didn’t expect it to get me. You will make this happen, you will change the futures of young people round here with what we’re about to do.”
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