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Wolves Aid, part of Wolves Community Trust, has donated £5,697.03 to the local Good Shepherd Soup Kitchen in order for them to buy much needed catering refrigeration equipment. This means that that the distribution of hot food, which was previously under threat, could be continued.
Wolves Aid has donated £11,500 to Severndale School to help fund a brand new sensory pool. The Specialist School, based in Shrewsbury, contacted Wolves Aid (part of Wolves Community Trust) last year with plans to install a Sensory System for their existing Hydro Pool.
Last year Wolves Aid, part of Wolves Community Trust, donated almost £2000 to an initiative run by The Youth Inclusion and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Reduction Team at Shrewsbury Police Station, to help them establish free coaching sessions for young people in the area.
The money helped maintain the sessions and pay for professional coaching until PC Scott Smither, who masterminded the scheme, and other officers became FA qualified coaches.
The Orchard Centre pupil referral unit has taken delivery of an additional 'X-Bike' courtsey of Wolves' official charity, Wolves Aid.
Wolves' players, Sam Vokes and George Friend visited the school in Great Bricklinn Street to see how the 100 youngsters were making use of the bikes. The pupils will use the equipment for about 10 minutes each day
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.