disabilities

£13,000 Helps Kent Carers Step Out into Nature

June 23, 2025 | in Celebration, Charity, community groups, Dover, Event, family, funding, Fundraising, Grant-makers, Grants, Kent, Kent Community Foundation, Maidstone, Support, volunteers, Vulnerable

Leading grant makers Kent Community Foundation has awarded two grants totalling £13,000 to Stepping Out with Carers CIC, a Dover-based charity that offers accessible walks and social activities across Kent to support unpaid carers and those they care for. Founded to combat isolation and promote wellbeing, Stepping Out with Carers CIC provides inclusive, welcoming outdoor…

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Game Changing Wheelchair Receives Funding on TV Investment Show

February 11, 2023 | in BBC One, Business, Disability, Dragon's Den, London, Tv, V

On BBC One’s Dragons’ Den on Thursday 9 February, entrepreneurs Matt Walker and Cristian Brownlee entered the Den to pitch for a £40,000 investment for 15% in their business which assembles and distributes the Omeo wheelchair. At the end of their pitch, Matt and Cristian were delighted to have negotiated a joint offer from Dragon’s…

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The Immeasurable Rewards of Fostering a Child with a Disability

June 17, 2022 | in Charity, children, Dad, Daughter, Diagrama, Diagrama Fostering, Diagrama Foundation, Disability, family, Father, Foster care, foster carers, Mother, School, south east, Surrey

Diagrama Foster Carers Peter and Kristin Nevins share their home with four biological children and their 11-year-old foster child ‘Jack’. Kristin Nevins and her husband Peter, from Surrey, foster with the charity Diagrama. For the last four years they have shared their family home with their foster child ‘Jack’. Kristin Nevins,…