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All weather multi-sports facility

Dukes Barn Trust is raising money for Dukes Barn Trust
“Heather Cope's Fundraising Page”

on 22 October 2008

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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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A recurring problem with our on site facilities is the lack of an all weather play area for children with physical disabilities, particularly wheel chair users.  A grass surface is totally unsuitable even in dry conditions. The project under consideration is to lay a suitable hard surface on a part of our present grass covered sports area. 

If we acheive this we will enhance the opportunity for sports and team games for wheel chair users and give them an alternative to using the busy car park.

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN

£11,300 donations already received from other sources.

Other funding applications are already in place and are pending.

Donation summary

Total
£60.00
+ £16.92 Gift Aid
Online
£60.00
Offline
£0.00

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