News : West Lancs Freemasons' Charity Support Rainbow House
Howard Jones, a Trustee of the West Lancashire Freemasons’ Charity, presented a cheque for £4,256.00 on behalf WLFC to Hayley Scholes, Development Manager for The Legacy Rainbow House. The charity based in West Lancashire provides services for children with disabilities, brain injuries and life limiting conditions.
The donation will help fund the cost for four children to attend a weekly, three hour conductive education session for the next twelve months. These sessions are subsidised by The Legacy Rainbow House, and parents are required to pay a proportion of the cost but due to the current economic climate some parents are struggling to pay. The donation from WLFC will allow these parents to continue sending their child to The Legacy Rainbow House.
The weekly conductive education sessions help children, who have a wide range of disabilities, to achieve their Individual Education Plans. This includes learning tasks such as sitting, standing, walking, talking, dressing, eating and drinking, and other tasks that are taken for granted by able bodied people.
After Howard presented the cheque, he and his wife Pat were given a tour of the Legacy Centre by Katherine Nelson, who is a Project Officer for the Charity. They then met Joe Mawdsley who founded Rainbow House in 2001.
Rainbow House specialises in providing services for children with brain injuries, disabilities and life limiting conditions. An holistic approach to rehabilitation is used, this is known as Conductive Education which aims to teach children life enhancing techniques, through education, recreation and sports, so that they can live more independent lives within the community.
Hayley Scholes of The Legacy Rainbow House said,
“We thank the West Lancashire Freemasons for their very generous donation and for all their hard work in fundraising. The donation will make a real difference to the lives of the children it supports, without this these children would not continue to develop their independence skills.”
