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Looking Forward
Our Housing and Training Needs
At the beginning of the new Millennium, we committed ourselves to a very forward reaching and exciting Development Plan for The Grange. This has resulted in major improvements in accommodation and some of the training facilities.
The Development Plan has four main aims:
Accommodating our future needs
To modernise the living facilities for 24 hr care to bring them up to new national standards, making them better for the residents and staff.
Developing a range of skills
To modernise the Horticulture Training area and the Creative Expression Centre and the tenants, residents and non-residential clients have benefited greatly thanks to these new facilities and our hard working staff. We now need to improve the facilities for Skills Training.
Moving towards independence
To increase the amount of tenanted housing on site but now we are concentrating on acquiring accommodation in the community to provide further progression for our clients.
Serving the community
To have the facilities here for the use of the local community with services provided by residents and tenants.
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A Brief History of The Grange
The Grange Centre has been training and caring for people with disabilities at Bookham since 1938. The Charity originated in 1927 when Miss Julia Sweet, a pioneer in the teaching and training of disabled people, founded the School of Stitchery and Lace in Leicestershire.
In the 1970's the name of the charity was changed to The Grange Centre to reflect our wider range of activities and it became a Registered Care Home In the 1980's, with the aid of funding from the Housing Corporation, a Housing Association was formed to provide sheltered accommodation in self contained flats for those able to live semi independently. In the 1990's we enlarged our operation by expanding into horticulture, alongside needlework and crafts, and opening our doors to men as well as women.
Miss Sweet's original idea was to provide adults with disabilities the opportunity of vocational and educational training thereby enabling them to become useful and independent citizens. This remains the basis of our policy and philosophy today.
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For further details please contact Judith Walker, Executive Director:
Tel: 01372 455220
Fax: 01372 451959
Email: judith.walker@grangecentre.org.uk
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