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Wolves Aid has donated £45,000, spread over 3 years, to Shifnal-based charity: The Walled Garden Project.
The charity provides education and training skills in horticulture for students and young adults with physical and learning disabilities.
Once again Wolves Aid has taken huge steps to helping young disable
d athletes realise their dreams by providing four power assisted wheelchairs.
Various contributors including Wolves Aid, Children in Need, and the fans themselves donated almost £30,000 in order to provide the wheelchairs to four local aspiring sportsmen and women.
The Wolverhampton Special Olympics team recently went on a trip made possible with the help of a £6,000 Wolves Aid donation. Twenty-seven local athletes competed in Leicester as part of the 2009 Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games. The money helped to cover the team's expenses, providing the athletes with equipment, uniforms and accommodation.
Wolves Chairman Steve Morgan recently handed over a £5,000 cheque on behalf of Wolves Aid to representatives of Westcroft Community Foundation.
The Chairman was at the Club to attend the first ever Wolves Community Trust Annual Reception, which aims to share with local charities and businesses some of Wolves’ official charity’s most significant achievement throughout the past year.
Wolves’ official charity, Wolves Aid, has recently donated over £5655.50 to the charity ‘The Sequal Trust’ so that they can buy a vital communication aid for 25 year old Nina Solon from Telford who suffers from cerebral palsy.
Wolves Aid trustee Rachael Heyhoe-Flint presented Nina with her Commuication Aid at her college, Telford College of Art, where she is taking a Foundation course in Photography.
Wolves players Chris Iwelumo and Matt Jarvis recently presented two specially adapted tricycles for young children with disabilities to Penn Hall
School as part of Wolves Aid’s ongoing commitment to providing mobility equipment to young people with disabilities.
The donation is a result of a visit that Chairman Steve Morgan made to the school back in June 2009.
Wolves Aid are proud to support Wolverhampton Rhinos, one of the country’s leading wheelchair basketball clubs.
The amateur sports club is a registered charity which seeks to support disabled sportsmen and women in Wolverhampton, the Black Country, and surrounding areas.
A special project at Broadmeadow Special Nursery School, funded in part by Wolves Aid, part of Wolves Community Trust, is now officially under way.
Since 2007 the Nursery has been trying to raise £185,000 to acquire a new-build sensory gymnasium and ball pool.
Last year Wolves Aid donated £8000 to local not-for-profit organisation, Access to Business, a voluntary-based business providing support into employment, training and self-employment for local people.
The donation mainly went towards funding new specialised computers, to deal with the increased demand on their services
Wolves player Stefan Maierhofer recently presented a Wolves Aid donation of a £2000 to Wolverhampton’s Central Youth Theatre (CYT) which has enabled them to give hearing impaired young people the chance to take part in a unique drama project.
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