Melissa Paulden

Building for the Future (BFTF), a cornerstone of support for disabled children and young people across Berkshire, is announcing an ambitious £150,000 fundraising campaign to complete our new, state-of-the-art community centre: The Ability Hub. Since 2014, the charity’s current home, ‘Our House’, has been a vital sanctuary for nearly 1,000 disabled children and young adults every year. However, skyrocketing demand and a critical lack of accessibility have pushed the service to a breaking...

New episode of Let’s Take Care – The Podcast for Parent Carers - is out now. Listen below on wherever you get your podcasts. Things go wrong daily in busy family life and families raising children and young people with disabilities are certainly not exempt from the mayhem. Parenting is challenging, colourful, exhausting, joyful and unpredictable all at once and disability doesn’t remove any of that - if anything, it sometimes amplifies it in unexpected (and occasionally hilarious) ways. We’ve...

We’re delighted to share some exciting news from BftF Plus: we’re launching a brand new Friday lunch club called Lunch@Plus, designed especially for disabled young adults looking for connection, activity and a welcoming place to belong. Starting Friday 13 February, Lunch@Plus will run three Fridays each month (the second, third and fourth Fridays) at Our House in Wokingham, from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. Created with Our Members in Mind This new session has grown directly from conversations with our...