Hidden Needs Trust

"Hidden Needs Trust " - Videos and Poem

Many thanks to Yeovil College Media Dept. and their students for their help in the making of videos for HNT over the past 2 years.

And a big thank you to HNT Poet Laurence Lagrue

for his amazing HNT Poem.

Saturday May 11th

Rachel’s Physical Challenge at The Quedam Yeovil
Supported by Abbey 104

How many static miles did Rachel cover in the HNT Racing Wheelchair in 4 hours?

The answer: An amazing 444.05 miles in 4:00:16 hours

HNT's Charity Concert 2020 featuring "Just Take That " Tribute

January 11th 7:30pm @ the Octagon Theatre, Yeovil

Booking Now Open - Click here for more information

Charity
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During 2015-17 over £25,000 was raised through the Hidden Needs Trust with the help of Somerset Community Foundation.

Beneficiaries: Blandford and Dorchester Opportunity Groups £5,300 each, Taunton Opportunity Group £7,850 and Yeovil Opportunity Group £6,850

Plus a £17,000 cut in funding for Dorchester Opportunity Group was overturned by HNT's intervention; without this they may have faced closure.

They are still open and recently achieved an outstanding OFSTED rating.
Please help HNT move forward into 2019 and make it an outstanding year by:

"Sponsoring" - “Donating”or“Fundraising” via the HNT Just Giving page.

HNT Wheelchair Marathon at Sherborne Summer Festival 2018

Rachel Goodfellow and parathelete Ebony Court complete 26.22 mls in 43.40 mins

Welcome to the Hidden Needs Trust

Hidden Needs Trust raises money for SEN preschool children in Dorset and Somerset, and the very specialist pre-school groups that support them. These Opportunity Groups are charities themselves and need to raise around £40,000 each annually merely to remain open.

The groups are based in Dorchester, Blandford, Yeovil and Taunton and are centres of excellence supporting SEN children, their families and carers ensuring each individual child reaches their optimum potential. Through the Opportunity Groups other professionals are accessed such as Speech and Language Therapy, Music Therapy, Paediatricians and Occupational Therapy. The staff are highly trained to work with highly complex needs.

Without these specialist groups, many children would not get early diagnosis, never reach their true potential, and the whole family until would be under enormous stress. The two counties are large and rural and if any one of the group's should close it would mean even more difficult access to specialist treatment and education for families...many would find travelling the extra miles to the next nearest group would be impossible and too taxing for the child.

Having founded the trust in 2015, a LOT has happened since then!

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