‘I couldn’t admit I’d been up until 4am helping my mum through a mental health crisis’

“I grew up in poverty, so I’d never been on a holiday before – we barely had enough money for food, let alone going out, even a trip to the beach which was only an hour away would have been impossible,” says 22-year-old, James Elliott*, an ambassador for Go Beyond, one of the charities supported by this year’s Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal.