Skillshop is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Our aim is to provide specialised training for adults with learning disabilities in a welcoming environment. We provide opportunities to engage in activities that stimulate, educate, and enable them to live more independent lives.

Skillshop day centre is sadly missing a sensory room. Having a sensory room would massively benefit our centre. The special room will be designed to develop a persons sense, usually through various lighting, calming music, and sensory objects. It will be used as a therapy room for adults with learning disabilities. This room would also be used as a relaxing quiet area providing space for people to relax and control all the elements. Not only would the sensory room encourage people to have control, allowing anyone with any degree of disability to change and influence their environment in a positive way. Overall it would provide a therapeutic atmosphere.
The benefits of having a sensory room would be endless. The sensory room would provide a safe haven for clients to rest, simply lie down, and relax, while others may engage in the interactive elements.
The room will encourage hand and eye coordination, and improve the development of social and language skills. Over all the sensory room will provide a peaceful experience away from our busy centre.
The changes will be very large. if we had the sensory room we would be able to offer a calming, relaxing area for adults to go with staff and relax if they are simply having a bad day. The room could be used after an adult has suffered a seizure, giving them the privacy to relax and recover. We can adapt our activity rota to offer therapeutic session's in the sensory room, and most of all we can excel that little bit more in providing excellent care throughout the day for adults with various learning disabilities.

We thought it would be a nice idea to advertise our Crowd Funding and ask the public to help us,
Thank you.