Artiephartie – grant recipient - 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...

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