What we do

We help change conditions for disabled people and people with mental health challenges in Gloucestershire.

Our goals are for disabled people and people with mental health challenges to:

  • Have choice of opportunity that meets their hopes and passions
  • Live in homes that meet their needs
  • Are involved in developing their communities
  • Influence people, places and organisations to make positive changes on disability issues and inclusion

We make these changes happen in three ways:

Barnwood Trust acts primarily as an agent of social change, working with disabled people and people with mental health challenges to change conditions impacting on them, using both the Trust’s financial and people resources to support that social change.  Our goals are delivered through a programme of funding, listening and learning, and changing conditions.

 

Graphic showing our Theory of Change. Left hand column shows 'We do this', Listening and Learning, Funding and Changing conditions shown as arrows pointing to the middle column which says 'and a result' "people take up passions and opportunities, people live in homes that meet their needs and people develop their own communities and the county as a whole. This is also shown as an arrow that points to our aim.