Overdue: 207 days
Public benefits
The individuals who live in Hanna Street and those who get respite in the home during the year. What benefits flow? It helps improve the quality of life of these individuals with learning disabilities. For example in the past funds raised have been used for therapy sessions – music, aromatherapy, reflexology, TVs, a computer and providing
carers to enable the residents to take short holidays. The residents are more relaxed and have a wider variety of stimulation and interesting things to do. It makes their lives a little fuller. Can you demonstrate this? Yes. The physical items such as TVs, computers, music systems and a renovated outside garden space is there to see. The other activities – therapy sessions and short breaks have to be recorded and are inspected by the RQIA. There is no harm flowing from the purposes
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Hanna Street houses a residential home and facilities for individuals with learning disabilities – mainly young adults – in a supported living environment. It also offers respite facilities whereby young adults with learning disabilities, who live with their family, can come into the home for a few nights, or longer, to give their carers a much
needed break. Needless to say this respite service is in constant use. The Family & Friends of Hanna Street is a small local charity which engages in fund raising to help enrich the residents daily lives and this has become even more necessary given the cutbacks everyone has experienced over the past few years. The fund raising activities consist mainly of bag packing in local supermarkets, coffee mornings and ballots and some of the things we have provided for the residents in the past are: - music therapy sessions, outings to various places of local interest, paying for carers to support residents when they go on holidays (they cannot go on their own), Christmas decorations, a large screen TV, specially adapted computers (reconditioned) and last year we turned a piece of waste ground just outside the home into a small garden and courtyard where the residents can enjoy the spring/summer/autumn sun – when we get it! As the title suggests the people who engage in fund raising are all family or friends of the residents
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health
- Parents
- Physical disabilities
How the charity works
- Welfare/benevolent
