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vanessa fessey is raising money for Dukes Barn Trust
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on 12 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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Last time we did Derby Cathedral - this time it is The Bridge!! 


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All in aid of Duke's Barn - an amazing facility for people with disabilities.  We have just had an amazing day there, canoeing, river walking and assault/ropes course.


Pete and I are also doing it in memory of Donn Mabbs, who I used to work with at Parkwood School and who co-founded Duke's Barn.

This is their blurb............


whatever your ability - go for it!


At Dukes Barn, we look beyond a person's disability - we simply regard people as having different levels of ability.

We consider that everyone, regardless of ability, should have the opportunity to participate in outdoor activities and enjoy and enrich themselves through personal achievement.

That's why we place great emphasis on a policy of inclusion, wherever feasible.

People of widely different abilities and ages take part in the activities at the same time. Challenge by choice is a concept we embody in our planning.

We are among a small number of centres who can deliver courses in British Sign Language.

In practice, we make programmes to account for each individual's requirements and challenge their abilities.

Often, a slight adjustment on the part of our instructors is all that's needed to deliver a programme that can be enjoyed by everybody. This way, everyone is able to participate fully in the fun, challenge, excitement and rewards of our programmes.

We are a member of Adventure for All - an affiliation of Outdoor Centres whose primary purpose is to deliver adventure activities for disabled people.

Donation summary

Total
£107.00
+ £16.92 Gift Aid
Online
£75.00
Offline
£32.00

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