With three kids under three, Kelly has her hands full. Literally, most of the time.

“I’ve usually got one, or both of the girls in my arms,” she tells Big Issue. “But here” – she points at her twin girls, rolling around in the middle of the rug – “you do just get a moment.”

On a drizzly Tuesday morning, the Honeyhill family centre in Peterborough is buzzing. We’re surrounded by toddlers. Across the room, Kelly’s son is fastidiously constructing a tower out of blocks (“probably Tony Stark’s tower,” she explains, a tribute to the three-year-old’s newly developed Iron man obsession). In the other room, volunteers are preparing lunch – jacket potatoes or quiches, depending on your taste – while parents browse through baskets of donated clothes.

It’s like this all the time, says Kelly: Bu

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