Liz McInnes urges people to get on board the Homeshare scheme

Performance poet Tom Calderbank with Liz McInnes MP

Liz McInnes, MP for Heywood & Middleton, showed her support for local social enterprise PossAbilities by taking a trip on the Homeshare Express.

Some 120 people joined the MP on a specially chartered steam train along the East Lancashire Railway, which brought together potential homes harers.

The party were joined by the BBC’s Right on the Money programme, which will feature the financial benefits of Homesharing in a programme to be broadcast later this year. Typically home sharers can each save about £4,000 a year.

Performance poet Tom Calderbank was the Poem Inspector, enthralling passengers with his specially penned ditty about homes haring, a scheme where a person with a spare room offers it to somebody in return for up to ten hours a week of social support.

Liz McInnes boarded the train and urged people living alone to consider Homeshare as an option to get some social support and ward off the ill health that can come with being lonely.

TShe said: “Really pleased to join PossAbilities and East Lancs Railway to celebrate their amazing scheme to alleviate loneliness."