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Plumtree School Helping Dukes Barn

John Kingsley is raising money for Dukes Barn Trust
“John Kingsley's fundraising”

on 10 July 2009

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We are a charity providing educational outdoor adventure activities for disadvantaged and disabled young people of all abilities. Our main focus is children with special needs including young people with autism, Asperges Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, the hearing and vision impaired and a range of physically disabled young people including wheelchair users. Many of our young people suffer from one or more of the above. We also run courses for disadvantaged primary and secondary school children from mainstream schools in poor inner city areas. Our aim is to ensure that all young people, regardless of ability, special need or disadvantage, are given the opportunity to experience quality outdoor education, in a safe environment, to improve not only their physical fitness but their confidence and self esteem to enable them to meet the challenges of everyday life, today and in the future. We have recently completed an all weather wheelchair friendly sports area and upgraded the entrance paths to our sensory garden to make wheelchair access easier. Our next challenge is to raise the funds to build a state of the art indoor climbing wall with unique and specific provision for non ambulent youngsters, which will demonstrate to other organisations and individuals what we at Dukes Barn already know, that being physically disabled does not mean being excluded from exciting and healthily competitive sporting pastimes.

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Having accompanied two groups of children on residential trips in the past two years, Carol Brown and I have seen at first hand the huge benefits to young people of a centre like Dukes Barn. The excellent facilities in conjunction with first class instructors provides a safe and secure environment in which young people are able to experience truly life changing outdoor activities. Dukes Barn also provides exactly the same amazing opportunities for disabled children and adults. We believe this is a really fantastic place, and any support will directly help countless young people. We have seen with our own eyes how in a very short period of time people can be transformed. They conquer fear and face tough challenges. This builds self-esteem and gives great confidence and pride in their own abilities. A fantastic character building experience!!

Recent fundraising has meant a new all weather sports area for wheelchair users will be built in the near future. The current fundraising project is to enable a new climbing wall building with overhead rail support for disabled climbers to be constructed. This will need £350,000.

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Donation summary

Total
£230.00
+ £50.77 Gift Aid
Online
£230.00
Offline
£0.00

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