The Peter Pan Nursery in Sherburn in Elmet offers care for kids with further wants, disabilities, sickness, studying difficulties and behavioural points, and likewise helps youngsters whose households are experiencing difficulties or are in want of respite and assist.
The nursery had been trying to replace its furnishings and to herald some specially-designed chairs with handles and sides that are additional supportive for the youngsters and can’t be tipped again.
A £1,000 grant from the Banks Neighborhood Fund has now enabled the nursery to buy a dozen new chairs, in addition to a further pair of chairs with pommels which can be utilized by youngsters who bodily battle to assist themselves.
The Peter Pan Nursery, which can have a good time its fortieth anniversary subsequent yr, was initially based in response to native households’ wants for respite care and extra assist.
It’s now a registered charity run by a voluntary administration committee, with fundraising to assist cowl its operating prices carried out by a crew of volunteers at its charity store within the centre of the village.
Kay Smith, basic supervisor on the Peter Pan Nursery, mentioned: “We haven’t up to date our furnishings for a really very long time, and after lately shopping for some semi-circular tables, we had been eager to enhance the chairs that the youngsters would use whereas sitting at them.
“The brand new chairs provide rather more stability for the youngsters utilizing them and take away the chance that they might topple over, whereas the chairs with pommels will make a giant distinction to the independence that our kids who battle to assist themselves bodily will take pleasure in.
“We merely couldn’t have afforded to make this buy with out the grant from the Banks Neighborhood Fund and we’re massively grateful for his or her assist.”
The Banks Group is the enterprise behind plans for a brand new residential growth in Hambleton which would come with 65 high-quality non-public and reasonably priced houses of various sizes and kinds, together with bungalows.
Kate Culverhouse, neighborhood relations supervisor on the Banks Group, mentioned: “The Peter Pan Nursery performs an enormous function within the well being and well-being of a number of native households, and makes such a distinction to the standard of life they will take pleasure in.
“We’re more than happy to have the ability to assist the work of such a formidable, longstanding neighborhood organisation.”
The Banks Neighborhood Fund offers grants for neighborhood teams and voluntary organisations within the neighborhood of Banks Group tasks.
Anybody from a neighborhood near a Banks Group growth who’s all for making use of for funding from the Banks Neighborhood Fund ought to first contact the fund supervisor on 0191 378 6342 or by way of fundmanager@bankscommunityfund.org.uk earlier than making use of for a grant to test if their group or undertaking is eligible.
