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My story

 

Well, me and my team - The Bunny Kickers - will be participating in the Cosgrove Care Sponsored Fun Walk on 2nd August 2009, Rouken Glen Park. Between us we will be walking 6 miles (in relays!) ... and if I can do it at nearly 9 months pregnant then you can put your hand in your pocket and donate to a very good cause indeed!*

Established in 1962, Cosgrove Care has built up a wide range of services for children and adults affected by learning disabilities and complex needs, which can mean they experience difficulties with learning and memory, communication, self-care, and awareness of health and safety issues. Their complex needs include cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, Angelman Syndrome, epilepsy, ADHD and mental health problems.

 

Cosgrove believes that people with learning disabilities have the right to access the same opportunities and experiences as everybody else.

 

The aims of its Services are:

 

o       To overcome isolation and the lack of opportunities for people with learning difficulties and/or complex needs.

o       To enable people with learning difficulties to make better connections with their peers, different generations, their families and the local community thus increasing opportunities for socialisation and happiness and preventing mental health problems.

o       To broaden learning and employment prospects for people with learning disabilities.

o       To reduce stress and increase support for families and carers by helping more parents to develop the knowledge and skills to support children with learning difficulties

o       To involve volunteers and the wider community in helping to overcome the exclusion of people with learning difficulties that still exists.

 

Cosgrove is in desperate need for funds to support its art and music groups, playschemes, respite holidays and

supported training and employment schemes. They get so little statutory funding for these activities and yet they play

such an important role in the lives of Cosgrove's service users. For example, a creative group not only increases

aspirations, confidence and self-esteem, but supplies the participator with a social network and a supportive peer

group. Quite often the groups activities become a central core of support in the person's life.

 

Please give generously. I've set a pretty low target which I hope, with your help, to smash to smithereens - but even

£200 would be a fantastic gift for Cosgrove and every penny would go directly towards supporting children and adults

with learning disabilities.

 

many thanks in anticipation, Jules X

 

*If I'm in labour on the day of the walk donations will NOT be refunded you cheap skates! I will just ask one of my team to do my part of the walk :-)

Get in there!! Donation by Paul Keir 30/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Well Done Jules - You GO, Glen Coco !!!!!!!!!! Donation by S,C,S & S Davis 30/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Good luck! Donation by Andrea 30/07/09  

Donation by Emma Dawson 23/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Your guilt trip worked!!! Have a fun day. Morven Donation by Morven Fairweather 23/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

even if you don't make it to the finish line... :) Donation by keith hawley 20/07/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

sorry we can't join your team but will be thinking of you and how hard it will be! Good luck and go bunny go! Donation by Steffi Keir 20/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Should ensure an early delivery!! Donation by Ian Haston 18/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Yo Team Bunny! Go for it!...please take care bunny doesn't hop out early though!! Lots of Love xxxxx Donation by Rachelle 15/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck and don't give birth half-way there!! Love and Hugs D xx Donation by Donna Haston - Ewok 15/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Best wishes from both of us Donation by David Hawley 12/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Hi Jules good luck with the walk - I wish i had half your energy! x Donation by Lynette 08/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck to you and "bump" xx Donation by Marilyn Freedland 07/07/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Donation by Marie-Louise Willemztijn 04/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Go Bunny & team!! Donation by jane manson 03/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by Caroline Roberts 03/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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* Total raised online: £195.00
  Offline donations: £70.00
  Gift Aid plus supplement: £55.00

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