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Foreland's Field of Dreams

Foreland's Field of Dreams

Foreland Fields Charity By Foreland Fields Charity

Help us build a community disability sport, leisure and training hub, enabling access to a wide range of opportunities for young people, and their families, with profound, severe and complex needs.

Ramsgate Delivery stage

103
backers
£25,695
raised
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This project was funded on 28 Jan 2022!

We are building a central hub for disability sport and leisure, including a football / sport pitch, accessible changing pavilion with education space, horticulture centre, and forest school. It will be used by Foreland Fields SEN School, along with a wide range of disability sports and training partners, who meet the needs of the local disability community. The hub will be used all year, including, evenings, weekends and holidays. Currently, within Thanet and East Kent, there are no disability friendly hubs offering the fully inclusive facilities and opportunities our project will create. This means, that there are young people who are excluded from being active or belonging to a team/club because the right options and opportunities are not available. We are raising funds to help install the accessible changing places rooms, including hoists, within the pavilion. The pavilion will form the center of this unique hub

What we'll deliver:

  • Install accessible changing places rooms within pavilion
  • Install ceiling hoists within pavilion
  • Furnish training rooms within pavilion

Why it's a great idea:

Something we strongly believe is that all children and young people should have access to outdoor sport and leisure facilities, but in reality there are no areas locally that allow special children fair access to play or be included in sporting activities. Once completed, the hub will provide a safe, accessible space to promote physical and mental wellbeing, lifelong learning, social development and inclusion, and will aid in reducing the economic impact inactivity has for the local health care providers. It will help reduce rates of social isolation, and depression, and will also provide an opportunity for the development of life skills and work experience, through the use of the pavilion kitchen/café and horticulture area. The hub will create a place for families to meet for mutual support and access community training sessions such as Makaton. This project will help ensure that everyone feels a part of the community and that they have fair access to all opportunities.

Steps to get it done:

  • Funding Pavilion build
  • Building Pavilion
  • Installing Changing Places rooms within pavilion
  • Grand opening ceremony for community

Location Ramsgate

About the space

Custom Location

Council

Kent County Council

How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees)  £24,435

Electric height adjustable changing bed - £5,000
Multi function ceiling hoist including hook spreader bar - £5,000
Doc M WC to care suites x3 - £4,500
Showers including grab rails x6 - £3,000
WC including holders and dispensers x7 - £1,750
Vanity unit including 2 basins x2 - £1,300
800W x 600H x 300D wall unit by david bailey or similar - £1,000
Basins including taps, waster and disepensers x4 - £500
hand drier x2 - £400
Flip down shower seat with legs x2 - £300

Costs Breakdown

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.

Electric height adjustable changing bed
£5,000
Multi function ceiling hoist including hook spreader bar
£5,000
Doc M WC to care suites x3
£4,500
Showers including grab rails x6
£3,000
WC including holders and dispensers x7
£1,750
Vanity unit including 2 basins x2
£1,300
800W x 600H x 300D wall unit by david bailey or similar
£1,000
Basins including taps, waster and disepensers x4
£500
hand drier x2
£400
Flip down shower seat with legs x2
£300

Overfunding

This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on:

  • Fittings and Furnishings for the pavilion training rooms
  • Blinds and window coverings for the pavilion
  • Plants and trees for the woodland forest school area

Target (inc. fees)  £24,435

Our Volunteer List

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