Tag Archives: Norfolk

Break charity to close Rainbow holiday centre in Sheringham

August 4, 2011   Carers, disability, learning difficulties, Norfolk

Holiday centre for disabled to close.

By Alex Hurrell , Reporter Thursday, August 4, 2011
12.00 PM

Break is to close its Rainbow Holiday Centre in Sheringham, once the flagship of the major north Norfolk-based charity.

 

Break charity’s Rainbow holiday centre in Sheringham

Rainbow’s 30 staff were told this week that the Hooks Hill Road centre will close in January 2013 after providing a welcome to thousands of children and adults with disabilities for the past 38 years.

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Hunstanton Round Table raising money with a charity drive for young carers

July 28, 2011   Carers, young carers

LYNN NEWS CARERS’ APPEAL: Coast to coast car rally raises £2,000

 

Hunstanton Round Table members set off on a charity drive around Great Britain in aid of the Young Carers appeal. LtoR – Andrew Bing, Andrew Booth, Ian Wells, Barry Ward, Craig Darwin, Rob Daniels, Edward Hammond, Neil Wells (front), Spencer Wenn (back), Christopher Stafford (front), Joe Bates, Michael Jackson, Leon Espley (chairman, back), Dave Daly, Nathan Daly, Kevin Waddison and Gary Waddison.

 

Published on Thursday 28 July 2011 14:10

BREAKDOWNS did not stop members of the Hunstanton Round Table completing a 1,000-mile car rally in fancy dress for the Lynn News Appeal.

 

The coast to coast challenge started on Thursday morning from the Golden Lion Hotel and raised £2,000 for the young carers’ campaign.

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New dementia centre opens in Harford, Norwich

July 28, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, Norfolk

Improving the lives of  dementia sufferers in Norwich.

Lucy Wright Thursday, July 28, 2011
10.50 AM

 

Dementia sufferers gathered with staff and their carers yesterday to celebrate the opening of a new centre in Norwich.

 

Harford Hill dementia centre, in Ipswich Road, will care for up to 25 people and the £90,000 project involved altering, improving and furnishing an existing building on the same site as the council-run Learning Difficulties resource centre.

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