Double cash booster for Steps
STEPS in Shepshed is celebrating after being given £450 by The Pied Bull in Shepshed.
Regulars at The Pied Bull in Shepshed pay £1 each week to take part in its popular wekly quiz night and at the end of the year the money is divided between five local charities.
Steps was nominated by Claire Hutt to receive £450, Claire’s daughter, Lilly-Rose attends the centre along with her mum and grandmother.
Claire said: “I would like to thank everyone at the Pied Bull for the money that has been raised for Steps. Each year Steps needs £250,000 in order to provide their unique and specialist service. Steps is a charity that is dedicated to helping children with life-long conditions affecting their movement, to have the best start in life and to maximise their potential.”
Claire explained that her daughter has benefitted enormously from attending the sessions at Steps. A stroke at a young age left her with delayed development in achieving simple things such as walking and talking. This also affected her fine-motor skills such as writing and holding a knife and fork.
Claire added, “Lilly-Rose has now achieved most of these things and took her first unaided steps a month before her third birthday. Our journey could have been so different because the staff at Steps are fantastic. I can’t thank them enough for all of their love, support, knowledge, patience and passion to both Lilly-Rose and us as parents. Donations such as that received from The Pied Bull means that Steps can carry on doing their amazing work, making children smile, helping them to grow and prosper in ways that we can’t imagine.”
STEPS has been given a welcome £1,000 boost from Barratt Homes.
Every month the employees of BD Living, at Barratt Homes, are asked to nominate a charity to benefit from a donation of £1,000, staff vote for the charity that they would like to win and last month Steps in Shepshed was the winning charity.
Trish Mabbott, the fund-raiser for Steps invited Barratt’s representatives, Alex and Sarah to visit the centre, to meet some of the children and parents who will benefit from their donation.
Steps Conductive Education Centre, offers a free service for children with conditions such as Down’s syndrome and cerebral palsy and Trish said the donation is really appeciated.
“Every penny that is raised or donated is spent on the children. The annual running costs of the centre amount to £250,000 so Barratt’s kind donation will make a big difference.”