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**UPDATE** We've reached our first target of £2500!! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. The even better news is that HSBC will match these donations pound for pound so our total is actually £5,000. But don't be put off - we have a new target of £5,500 so please continue to donate generously.
This charity provides lifelong residential and respite care for people with profound physical and multiple learning disabilities at three residential homes in and East .
The money raised will help to fund a new hydrotherapy pool for Mary House in , where Jan’s stepson, Robbie, is a resident. The hydrotherapy pool enables the residents, who are unable to walk, to exercise and so strengthen muscle and maintain joint flexibility.
It’s taken us this long to get fit enough to even contemplate the ride of 115 miles over two days, but at long last a date has been set - 11/12 September - for our East Anglian adventure. In the meantime Jan has changed jobs & we’ve picked up two extra cyclists in Sam “One for the Road” Latter and Kevin “I can nearly see my feet now” . Jan and John “Tomo” Thomas will drive the essential support vehicle.
Please support our efforts to assist this worthy cause by sponsoring us as much as you can.
Robbie’s Story
Robbie has been disabled since he was little and is a cheerful, loving young man who enjoys music and books. When Robbie was younger and before he contracted osteoporosis in 2002, aged 14, Robbie used to enjoy a cuddle with his mum and dad. The osteoporosis has now made it impossible for Robbie’s mum or dad to have close contact with Robbie, as his bones are too fragile. Since moving to Martha Trust, Robbie now regularly uses the hydrotherapy pool with his mum – the hydrotherapy pool provides a safe, supportive environment in which he can exercise but also in which he can enjoy a cuddle. Robbie’s mum Kathy says “Cuddling Robbie is only possible now with the support of a hydrotherapy pool and its is so wonderful for me to see how much he enjoys the freedom the water gives him, and how he can move his limbs in a way which is restricted outside of the water.”
At the moment Robbie (who lives at Mary House in Hastings) must make a 120 mile round trip to use the hydrotherapy pool in Deal and so cannot use the service more than once a fortnight. When the new pool at is built, Robbie and his housemates will be able to use the pool on a daily basis Please help make this a reality for Robbie.”
(from Martha News Autum 2008 - http://www.marthatrust.org.uk/pdfs/autumn08.pdf)
