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We want to provide a modern and accessible building in which we can offer a number of services to disabled adults within our local community

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  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Other Other

    Situation

    We are facing the challenge of completing the building for our new Adult Resource Centre (ARC). Within the old building we created a vibrant hub where adults and carers could dip in and out of services, courses and therapies as they wished, working according to an individual programme designed in conjunction with a key worker. Because the building was originally a residential bungalow, the doorways were too narrow for comfortable wheelchair access. A lack of space meant there was little or no privacy available, even for physiotherapy and art therapy sessions. Part of the building was a donated conservatory – cold in winter, hot in summer and totally unsuitable for the physiotherapy which took place there; the former garage had been pressed into service as an art and crafts studio. We have already constructed one wing of the new building, which is fully operational as an IT centre for disabled adults and their carers. We have raised £2.2 million and need a further £300,000 to complete the building. The building offers the best available design facilities and adaptive technologies in order to provide a sociable, accessible, inclusive atmosphere in which people feel comfortable asking their questions and working on their own solutions. We will be offering a 'one-stop shop' service designed to address the potential areas where disabled people might seek advice, resulting in a personalised service to facilitate the process of disabled people taking more responsibility for and control over their own lives and affairs. This new building will not only transform the services we are able to offer, but will allow us to work with 50 more people than we can currently. At the moment, around 100 people come to the ARC on a regular basis and over 100 more people benefit from outreach services including Stroke and Back Care advisors. With the space and flexibility of our new ARC, we will be able to offer all of these people a beacon service which will look with them beyond meeting their needs and towards achieving their goals.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Other Other