The Foundation was established to provide a home for life for people with profound and complex learning and physical disabilities who need nursing care, a high degree of personal care and significant social support. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for people to live in an ordinary residential setting, living life to the full as independently and actively as possible, whilst maintaining their health and ensuring their physical and emotional wellbeing. We specialise in providing a home for young adults, often following a period in a residential school or living with family, who wish to move on and develop an independent life. A key objective is to ensure a smooth and successful transition from school or family to adult life, whilst maintaining as much contact with family and friends as possible. We aim to ensure that, whilst people have the benefits and fun of house-sharing with others, we also support them with as much 1:1 staff time as possible to develop their own individual interests and activities, including as much participation in the local community as they wish. Most of our funding comes from the statutory authorities who support each resident and this covers our core operational costs which are significant due mainly to the high ratio of staff to residents. We also seek charitable donations and grant funding from other sources to supplement this income and to enable us to enhance the quality of life of our residents.
The charity was formed to facilitate the following objective: The relief of sickness and the protection of health by the support and funding of medical research in all branches of oncology, in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) research in myeloma, to the intent that the useful results of such research can be disseminated for the public benefit, the support of research in the field of oncology, and the dissemination of the results of that research, through publications and lectures
We are a registered charity, No. 1149011. We provide support and information via our website www.harrysrainbow.co.uk as well as providing help, support and rescources as part of organised trips,events and monthly group for bereaved children and families in the MK and surrounding areas.
The Olivia Road Trust is a registered charity whose objects and principal activities are: The relief of poverty, sickness & distress amongst the children of South Africa through: * The establishing and maintaining of an independent home, in the environs of Cape Town, for the purpose of housing infants and young children who lack suitable primary care * The provision of a stable, safe and loving environment for resident children to be raised in * The provision of food, shelter, health care and education to assist the healthy growth and development of the resident children Please visit our website www.oliviaroad.com for more details of our activities and to get our latest news.