U&W TV Guide — Thursday, 25 June 2026

In the summer of 2015, West Sussex wife and mother-of-four Amanda fell off her bike while training for an endurance contest, breaking 11 bones, puncturing a lung, and snapping her collarbone and back. Paralysed, she spent the next six months at Stoke Mandeville's spinal unit, while her builder husband Vic looked after the children - but determined to compete again, she returned home in a wheelchair. However, the family home is no longer suitable for Amanda - so that's where Nick Knowles and the rest of the DIY SOS team come in, strengthened by a number of local tradesmen

The team helps project manager Ben in Avening in the Cotswolds, whose life was changed in a split second by a freak accident while holidaying in Cyprus. Ben slipped and fell head first into the shallow end of a pool, breaking his neck in three places, and for him to move back home from Salisbury Spinal Unit, it needs to be adapted with a front access and a two-storey extension with through-floor lift, along with all the bespoke care provision that he will need, including a home-office space

Strictly Come Dancing and TOWIE star Pete Wicks immerses himself in the heart-warming and emotional world of dog care at Basildon's Dogs Trust rehoming centre. Pete returns to Dogs Trust, facing a suitcase of abandoned pups on day one and falling hard for Theo, a gentle Italian Mastiff with a serious heart condition.

Nick Knowles and team, together with West Bromwich volunteers, helps a grieving grandmother and her family who are making do in a small house. Sandra's daughter Crystal Chambers passed away in 2015, so she and Crystal's 19-year-old brother Ziggy are doing their best to raise youngsters Deago and Ameira amid cramped conditions

Part one of two. Nick Knowles and the team undertake their biggest and longest build yet, constructing two buildings for the Grenfell community over several months to create spaces worth around £2million. With the aid of large construction companies, generous suppliers, volunteers and the Duke of Cambridge - who visits the site - the team starts by building a new home for the Dale Youth Boxing Club. The club started the careers of James DeGale, who won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008, and George Groves, current WBA Super Middleweight champion, as well as other national champions

The rival antique experts Phil Serrell and Arusha Irvine head to an auction in Greenwich, with Phil buying a satirical poster and Roo picking up a pieces of her favourite glassware