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Ik*a have a 4.5 tog duvet for £2.59........could add it to the duvet you have found and put them together in a quilt cover.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90131426

If you manage to get secondhand, you could always stuff it in a bag and put it in a freezer overnight to kill off any insects.

Can I just add that if you friend has a bed and can pick up another cheap duvet, it will add warmth if she puts that one on the mattress and put a mattress cover over the top before using a bottom sheet. You can also get large throws or even a light synthetic blanket to put over the duvet if is large enough to fall down each side and the bottom of the bed, it will keep out any draughts and be nice and warm or if she can find some flannalette sheets, to use between herself and the duvet it will stop the cover needing washing quite so often and be extra warm as well.

I wasn't sure what the names of the grants etc were from DSS except that it's worth asking about. Is your friend receiving any help if her wage is very low, e.g. working tax credit etc I don't understand them all but worth asking and also worth asking her local vicar if there is anywhere that can help, sometimes church groups can be supportive.

Good luck to your friend and I hope life improves for her soon.

Lizx

Ann - I can't believe the low, low, low price of the Ik...a duvet!. You could buy several, and still have a cheap one.

Liz, friend was used to camping, and should know about putting something over the mattress.

I have just washed two single candlewick bedspreads, in lieu of blankets, which I am passing on.

And to cap it all, today we have more snow falling!.