The donation will fund our Big Build project. We have recently bought our own premises - a former health centre. We are converting it into a specifically adapted venue to host our services and need to raise funds to do this.
This will include:
• a high needs area, equipped with a wet room, changing area and sensory room
• a low needs area equipped with table tennis table, pool table, social area, break out room and soft play area
• an outside play area including sunken trampoline and
• for adults a pizza oven, BBQ area and gazebo.
We are providers of alternative education where children who are unable to access a mainstream education provision and may be at risk of exclusion can access our services. The new venue will have two classrooms to accommodate children in need of this provision.
We also plan to have an area where we will teach independent living skills of cooking.
We will have an area where adults will learn to restore and recycle old furniture. They will learn how to list this on line and sell, thereby self-funding the project ongoing.
The centre encircles an outdoor space which will become a sensory garden. We also intend to have vegetable plots where our service users can learn to grow vegetables.
We estimate that when finished this will provide services to circa 1,000 people. This does not include the amount of local people who will gain employment from the services we provide, and local businesses which will benefit from our staff and service users accessing them.
