Children’s charity gets £5,000 grant
Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity has been awarded a £5,040 grant from the Morrisons Foundation to provide swimming lessons and hydrotherapies to 80 Haywards Heath children with mobility impairments.
Over 40 weeks, children can receive specialist swimming lessons and water play opportunities, which have been designed to help with a variety of conditions like cerebral palsy.
Rowan Cranston is one of the children who enjoys taking part. His mother Meredith said: “When Rowan gets in the water for his swimming lesson his face lights up and he does not stop smiling and laughing throughout the whole class.”
Morrisons supermarket set up The Morrisons Foundation in 2015, which awards grants for charity projects that improve lives.
Since then it has donated more than £35 million to hundreds of charities in England, Scotland and Wales.
Erin Fuller, Morrisons Foundation specialist, said: “I’m delighted that Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity are able to provide such amazing support to disabled children.”
“Seeing the difference their vital work does for the children and their families really does make me very proud that the Morrisons Foundation has been able to make this donation,” she added.