Megan Baker House is a charity providing FREE Conductive Education Services to children and teenagers with motor disabilities such as cerebral palsy, head injury, stroke, dyspraxia and adults with parkinson's disease.
Megan Baker House provides a range of sessions and activities designed to encourage development of physical independence, social and communication skills as well as teaching life skills.
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On 6th June the MG car club held their annual rally, the proceeds of which came to MBH. They rasied a fantastic £3,000 and we would like to say a HUGE thank you to all involved.
On 29th May work colleagues, fmaily and friends of Chris Fletcher from bpi films held a golf day at lemonister golf club and raised a fantastic £3,189.75 which they donated to Megan Baker House. Again a HUGE thank you to all involved.
Goldfish Textile, Recycle UK and Ragbags
Over the last year our re-cycling project has raised in excess of £8,000, on behalf of all the children, Trustees and staff at MBH, a big thank you to everyone who has donated unwanted clothing etc to us over the last year. The services we provide are FREE of charge and we have no statutory or government funding which means our income is derived from a variety of sources including community support. Your donation means a great deal to us.
David Hunt, from Cadbury’s cycled from their factory at Chirk in North Wales to the factory here at Marlbrook last week end. He raised the fantastic sum of £1500 for MBH – David is a Trustee of MBH.
The bikers completed their mammoth trip from John O’Groats to Land’s End. On Saturday 17th July a group of scooter addicts from the Modern World Scooter Club visited MBH to hand over a cheque for £2,000. We were delighted to receive this and have asked them for a brief synopsis of the journey and some photos. These will follow
Thank you again to all concerned – including Premier Inns for so generously donating beds for the night to our intrepid scooter riders.
A BIG THANK YOU TO COLLECTORS AND DONORS AT MORRISON’S LEOMINSTER
We raised the fantastic sum of £624 at the Morrison’s supermarket in Leominster collection over the weekend of 3rd/4th July which is fantastic! A very big thank-you to Zoe Lewis, Carol Small, Helen Pryce, Angela & Rhianna Rees, Lorraine & Daniel Meadmore, Vicky Nicholson-James, Len Vidler, Brenda Richardson, Barbara James, Margo Evans and Helen Richardson for their help. Thank you too, people of Leominster for supporting us.
Opportunity
Megan Baker House is looking for an experienced conductor from September 2010. Spoken and written English essential. Knowledge and experience with adults especially with Parkinson disease, an advantage. Own car is preferred. Salary to be agreed. For further information please contact:
Lee Gough (lee@meganbakerhouse.org.uk)
or
Judit Ziman (Judit@meganbakerhouse.org.uk).
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We are planning to run family advice sessions from September, for more information please ask the conductors.
Carl Timmins and Luke Moore are making the 1800 mile round trip from John O'Groats to Lands End on scooters to raise money for MBH. They are hoping to complete the journey in 9 days starting on 8th May, 2010; follow their progress on their blog; tiggariffic.blogspot.com
Our very own Judit Ziman is doing a solo skydive to raise money for Megan Baker House. Please sponser her at www.justgiving.com/judit-ziman.
