30 before 30 Sense

Rachel Buckley is raising money for Sense
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SENSE · 29 December 2012

Sense is here to support disabled people from the first weeks of life through all the major milestones of adulthood. Over 70 years, we’ve built extensive knowledge and expertise in supporting disabled people with complex needs, including deafblind people.

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I have experienced some great things in my life so this is the opposite of a bucket list. I want to give something back so I am attempting to complete 30 charity challenges before I'm 30. I would love you to suggest a challenge or support someone else's by donating on my justgiving page and following my blog http://30before30sense.blogspot.co.uk/ I wear a hearing aid and am a special needs teacher so the work SENSE does is close to my heart. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be to have more than one sense fully impaired and I want to do everything I can to ensure deaf/blind children experience a full life.

While you are thinking of a great challenge for me here's a sense of what the money raised could buy:

£5 – could buy a set of musical bells to help stimulate even the tiniest amount of a deafblind child's hearing in music therapy.
£7.50 – could pay for a deafblind child to experience sailing and feel the wind on their face on their Sense holiday.
£15 – could pay for a tactile book for use at a Sense family centre to develop a child's sense of sight and touch.
£25 – could buy an interactive light tube to help stimulate a deafblind child's remaining sight.
£50 – could help pay for a deafblind child's vital first assessment.
£250 – could kit out a home with sensory 'trails' enabling the deafblind residents to identify specific rooms, stairs etc, enabling them to live in a safe, secure environment.
£500 – could pay for a child to undergo a specialised educational development assessment to establish what their learning abilities are.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

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So please dig deep and donate now.

Donation summary

Total
£3,655.50
+ £484.28 Gift Aid
Online
£1,997.11
Offline
£1,658.39

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