Page 5 - Rugby Post - Issue 61

Ivybridgelink Janet Fevrier of Cross Roads Care
Community Centre
Manager Tracy Hiney was delighted to see the organisation, which helps
children with special needs and elderly people with
can’t wait to get the centre’s kitchen dementia across Richmond and Kingston, enabled to
upgraded. “The finance from the Legacy purchase a minibus.
Fund will make a huge difference,”
she said, explaining that the kitchen “This Legacy Fund grant was crucial both in itself and in
will not just serve beverages and food helping us to access further funding,” she said. “It gives us
but be somewhere to teach children more flexibility and the community greater access to our
to cook and run courses on health services. A minibus will now be able to pick up youngsters
and hygiene so that residents can be with special needs and bring them to our Saturday club or
awarded certificates, making them more take the Saturday Club football team to away matches. It will
employable. be able to bring elderly dementia sufferers and their carers to
our Caring Café or take them on outings.”
“The café is used for all kinds of sessions,
the food bank is run from there, people can At Twickenham’s Heatham House youth club, managed
sit and have an informal coffee in a relaxed by Achieving for Children, Malcolm Hyatt is keen to get
atmosphere where all our different ethnic an out of use skate park which has fallen into disrepair up
groups on the estate can chat about shared and running again. It was, he said, a thriving park which
problems. It’s about building community provided affordable, healthy and positive activity much
and we are very glad of this support from needed by local young people. Finance now promised by
the RFU, who have helped us over the the Legacy Fund will help with the equipment upgrade and
years.” repair so that youngsters with boards, BMXs, scooters and
rollerblades have somewhere to enjoy themselves away from
All grants: Friends of Murray Park the local streets and business areas.
Fitness Trail; 1st Hampton Hill Sea
Scouts wheelchair access; Park Lane
Stables Riding for the Disabled safety kit
and building improvements; Rivermead
Community Hall new boiler and
disabled access; All Hallows Church
building improvements; Crane Road
Neighbourhood Watch alleyway gates;
Whitton Safer Neighbourhood Team
alleyway gates; Perryn Court Residents
garden for elderly residents; 1st Whitton
Scout Group archery and air rifle range &
equipment; Heatham House Skate Park
upgrade; Ivybridgelink Community Centre
kitchen refrurbishment; Marlow Crescent
Residents Association footbridge; Worple
Primary School play area with physical
challenges; Cross Roads Care minibus for
children with special needs and elderly
people with dementia; Friends of Cathja
repair of Dutch barge.

Friends of Cathja

has a Dutch barge moored in
Isleworth which is fitted out for
people with mental health issues to
create their own art and woodwork.

Due to logs coming down the Thames
it needed extra plating and said Carl
Kirby-Turner their Project Director,
“Getting help from the Legacy Fund
was fantastic and made a huge
difference because when a small, local
charity like ours is hit with substantial
costs they are very difficult to cope
with.”