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LDDF FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR SOUTH GLOS RESIDENTS
£14,780 raised!..... May 2023 AVIVA Community Fund Project (Now Closed)
£14,780 raised!..... May 2023 AVIVA Community Fund Project (Now Closed)
People with learning difficulties living in South Gloucestershire are now eligible to apply for our six-week LDDF programme, which delivers services to residents with learning difficulties or disabilities. South Gloucestershire Council has funded this project.
AIM OF THE SERVICE
It is to deliver support using a holistic approach to empower
People with learning difficulties living in South Gloucestershire are now eligible to apply for our six-week LDDF programme, which delivers services to residents with learning difficulties or disabilities. South Gloucestershire Council has funded this project.
AIM OF THE SERVICE
It is to deliver support using a holistic approach to empower people, build confidence and support learning new skills using different activities and the outdoors.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICE TO BE PROVIDED
Our specific targets will be centred around an individual’s ability, and we recognise that will vary, based on 4 hours delivered weekly over 42 weeks (7 start dates throughout the year aimed at 8 participants attending six consecutive sessions of varied activities.
We will aim to improve individual independence by.
1. Encouraging decision-making during every visit/activity
2. Develop new life skills to use at home and outside the home.
3. Enabling every individual to make a hot, healthy meal and understand why it is healthy. Every session will include a healthy lunch.
4. Motivating and increasing confidence in their ability by encouraging individuals to try new activities and set goals.
5. Increasing their awareness of working indoors and outdoors safely
6. Improving health and well-being with exercise and spending time in nature seeking to address health inequalities.
7. Bespoke training offering accredited City and Guilds qualifications in horticulture (for those with aspirations)
8. Individuals will become more independent.
9. Motivate and inspire potential employment goals.
£14,780 raised!..... May 2023 AVIVA Community Fund Project (Now Closed)
£14,780 raised!..... May 2023 AVIVA Community Fund Project (Now Closed)
£14,780 raised!..... May 2023 AVIVA Community Fund Project (Now Closed)
2023 AVIVA COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING PROJECT
Please note that this fundraising Project has now ended. Thank you to those who donated, shared and supported us with this project. We have sent out a personal thank you to every donor.
It fills us with such warmth to know that even during these precedented and challenging times, people still went o
2023 AVIVA COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING PROJECT
Please note that this fundraising Project has now ended. Thank you to those who donated, shared and supported us with this project. We have sent out a personal thank you to every donor.
It fills us with such warmth to know that even during these precedented and challenging times, people still went out of their way to back this project.
OVERVIEW: On 1st May 2023 we successfully raised £14,050 ( + est. £730.00 Gift Aid) with 46 supporters in 42 days! This means we raised a grand total of £14,780!!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, from all of us here at Empowering Futures.
ALERT - LATEST BUILDING UPDATE
£14,780 raised!..... May 2023 AVIVA Community Fund Project (Now Closed)
Starting the year with the best news possible…
We secured planning permission and many of you will be aware we had a structure built. We expected Phase 2 to be completed by now, so we could dedicate our time to delivering a much-needed service to the most vulnerable.
We did our due diligence checks and passed the construction to a competent builder (we were led to believe) who had exp
We secured planning permission and many of you will be aware we had a structure built. We expected Phase 2 to be completed by now, so we could dedicate our time to delivering a much-needed service to the most vulnerable.
We did our due diligence checks and passed the construction to a competent builder (we were led to believe) who had experience with modular buildings!
Alas, we discovered, this was not the case and our building must be entirely dismantled.
This was and is still both shocking and devastating.
We want to alert anyone, who is having a garden building/modular building constructed to be aware, your building may need to meet Building Regulations. Most will not need Building Regulations, however, this leaves the responsibility for building standards with you.
Please be aware if the builder's guarantee is not underwritten – it is worthless. It just looks and sounds as though you are protected against shoddy workmanship.
We will dismantle our building from 1st May, just 4 of us, with no demolition experience (to keep all our costs down) if you have any building experience and can lend us half a day, that would be much appreciated, in what, is a very stressful situation.
To try and keep this post positive, we have decided to try and make a Shepherd’s Hut from the building's material, using the wasted wood. If anyone has any ideas of anywhere, we could secure a metal frame for the Shepherds Hut, please feel free to get in touch. This will create a Men in Sheds project.
Our eternal thanks and gratitude go to #gwt, #wessexwater, #networkplus, #bristolwater for their extensive support in installing a rainwater harvesting and water treatment plant when we were in deep despair.
Lastly, to anyone who has personally experienced Cowboy Builders, know you are not alone. We have learned of many similar cases and heard soul destroying stories, we share your desperation and feel your pain. The world can be a cruel place, when some people live by deception and have no moral code, but we will continue to fight, and will be here to support those that need us the most.
Starting the year with the best news possible…
Starting the year with the best news possible…
Starting the year with the best news possible…
We have officially got our planning permission!
A huge thanks to everyone who submitted supportive comments on our planning application, we could not have done it without you.
2022 CROWDFUNDER
Starting the year with the best news possible…
MUSICAL TEA PARTIES FOR THE ELDERLY!
This was our first-ever fundraising campaign to raise money for our big build.
We did it!! On 11th March 2022 we successfully raised £6,588 ( + est. £1006.50 ) with 95 supporters in 42 days
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MUSICAL TEA PARTIES FOR THE ELDERLY!
Starting the year with the best news possible…
MUSICAL TEA PARTIES FOR THE ELDERLY!
Check out our new Musical Tea Parties! Email to find out more
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