People we've helped - Barnwood Trust

Grants to individuals

The Freeman family – grant recipients

Taking away the worry

When Vanda Freeman spotted someone using an electric wheelchair hoist at a car boot sale, she knew it could transform her life, but she also knew that her family couldn’t afford it.

Motability couldn’t help and neither could Social Services. So Vanda’s occupational therapist recommended applying to Barnwood Trust. Read more...

Grants to organisations

Artiephartie – grant recipient

Unlocking creative potential

Funding from Barnwood Trust has enabled Artiephartie to develop a Friday evening drama group in Stroud, for people with a learning disability keen to make and maintain friendships.

Now plans for a public performance are underway.
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GL11 – grant recipient

Helping words take flight

GL11 is a small, grass-roots project based in Cam and Dursley, committed to improving opportunities for all members of the local community.

They came to us with an exciting plan for enabling people with dementia to capture their lives in poetry as a springboard for improving social care. Read more...

Gloucester Blazers Wheelchair Basketball Club – grant recipient

Rising to the challenge

This inspiring club was started in 2008 by a group of disabled young people keen to get wheelchair basketball off the ground in Gloucestershire.

They came to us with a request for funding for five sports wheelchairs. But with typical enterprise, they made their grant go a great deal further. Read more...

Newent Association for the Disabled – grant recipient

Preserving dignity

For some disabled and elderly people, a bath is an unattainable luxury, rather than the everyday necessity that most of us take for granted.

Our grant to Newent Association for the Disabled allowed them to employ a Bathing Attendant, enabling more individuals to enjoy a relaxing bath in dignified surroundings. Read more...

Housing

Bob Allen – Manor Gardens resident

Providing a secure home

Bob Allen and his wife Betty were among the first residents to move into the Manor Gardens bungalows when they were built in the early 1980s.

Today, Bob is 84 and a widower. His health is not so good, but the safety and security he feels in Manor Gardens, means he wouldn’t wish to be anywhere else. Read more...

Jean Drewett – Manor Gardens resident

Striking the right balance

For 80-year-old Jean Drewett, Manor Gardens sheltered Housing provides an ideal combination of security and independence.

Jean loves her bungalow and garden and describes Manor Gardens as the only sheltered housing she would ever have wanted to move into. Read more...

Gloucester – supported housing

Supporting people with mental health problems

Barnwood Trust owns a self-contained block of eight one-bedroom flats in Gloucester, which has been developed as a supported housing project for people with mental health issues.

Run by our charity partner Rethink, it helps people with severe and enduring mental health problems to negotiate the tricky journey from care to independent living, with impressive results. Read more...

Day care

Lesley Harris – Manor Day Home beneficiary

Finding a new lease of life

When the diagnosis of her Mother’s Alzheimer’s coincided with her own painful medical problems, Lesley Harris felt completely trapped. But a referral to Manor Day Home changed everything.

Lesley’s Mum quickly grew to love the Day Home, and that has made life a great deal easier for Lesley too. Read more...

David and Marlane Rose – Manor Day Home beneficiaries

Recharging family batteries

When David and Marlane Rose took on the permanent care of David’s parents, both of whom had dementia, they knew there would be challenges; what they couldn’t foresee was quite how significant a role Manor Day Home would play in supporting their family.

Day care provided by Barnwood Trust has enabled this family to do what it does best; to care for each other without the pressures becoming insurmountable. And it has really made a difference. Read more...

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