Diagrama Foundation is delighted to announce that it has received a generous grant from Chalk Cliff Trust towards the installation of new flooring in the community room at Duckyls Farm, helping to create a safer, more accessible and welcoming environment for adults with learning disabilities and additional support needs.
The new commercial-grade vinyl flooring has been supplied and installed by Crawley Carpet Warehouse, transforming a heavily used indoor learning space that supports daily activities and community engagement.
Duckyls Farm, near East Grinstead, provides day opportunities for adults with learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injury, and physical or sensory impairments. Set within a peaceful rural environment, the service enables people to build confidence and independence through meaningful activities including animal care, horticulture, cooking, woodworking, arts and crafts, and life skills development.
The refurbished community room is a central hub for these activities, hosting cookery sessions, creative workshops, group learning and social events. The improved flooring will make the space more comfortable, hygienic and accessible for wheelchair users and those with mobility needs, while also supporting a wider range of activities.
The room is also used by residents living at Duckyls Farm’s residential and supported living services, and in the future will play an important role as the charity expands its respite provision and community engagement initiatives.
Keri Strugnell, Care Farm and Community Manager for Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm said:: “We are incredibly grateful to Chalk Cliff Trust for its generous support. This funding has enabled us to complete a significant improvement to one of the most frequently used spaces at Duckyls Farm. The new flooring will benefit the adults we support every single day by providing a safer, warmer and more accessible environment in which to learn, socialise and develop new skills.”
The charity also extends its thanks to Crawley Carpet Warehouse for supplying the flooring and helping bring the project to life.
As part of Diagrama Foundation, Duckyls Farm is committed to helping vulnerable adults lead fulfilling and independent lives through high-quality care, education and community-based opportunities. The improved community room will also support plans to welcome more local groups and activities outside normal day service hours, strengthening links with the wider East Grinstead community.
To find out more about Duckyls Farm visit www.diagramacommunity.org.uk
If you’d like to support Duckyls Farm, you can help by purchasing an item from their Amazon Wishlist: https://linktr.ee/diagramaamazonwishlist. Every contribution, big or small, helps enhance the daily lives of the people we support.
About Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm
Diagrama Community Services, which operates at Duckyls Farm, is for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
The Community Services provide a choice of meaningful, enjoyable occupational opportunities and activities, supporting people to develop skills that, promote independence, transfer to employment and be used in their daily lives.
The life skills activities include looking after farm animals, growing vegetables, fruit and flowers, making bird boxes and hedgehog houses, repairing and maintaining fences, cooking, painting, drawing, online safety and managing money.
About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex with a Community Services Programme a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast. Plus, a 100 acre property offering farm and craft day Services cross West Sussex.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex, helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Duckyls Farm, a 100 acre residential care home in West Sussex for residents with learning disabilities, allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social skills and benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- Diagrama Day Opportunities operates at Duckyls Farm and across Sussex. This is a day care provision Hub and Outreach Support for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s voluntary adoption agency and not-for-profit fostering service cares for children who wait the longest for homes in London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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