3504 SHA Your Voice 15 - Spectrum Housing Group

s... independent living news... independent living news... indepenFunding gives mobility tothe disabledDisability Action Group (DAG) based inNorth Dorset has seen its fleet of mobilityscooters extended this month with the help ofSignpost Residents Community Fund.The community fund run by Signpost residentsawarded DAG a massive £1,195.00 topurchase a new mobility scooter that will helpup to 500 disabled people during its life time.Michael Underwood, Chair of SignpostResidents Community Fund, presented thecheque to Alan Dunn, Chair of DAG. MichaelMembers of DAG at the presentationUnderwood said, “It’s been a privilege to beable to award this funding to such aworthwhile cause. Many of us take theindependence mobility gives for granted and Iknow that this scooter will give those that useit a lifeline to society and independence.”Applications to the Signpost ResidentsCommunity Fund are welcomed from groupsworking in all areas of the community. Fordetails please contact The Resource Centre,Signpost House, Sunrise Business Park, HigherShaftesbury Road, Blandford Forum, DT11 8SA.Further infoThe Disability Action Group in North Dorset, isa group that provides electric wheelchairs andscooters on a short term loan basis to needydisabled persons. The provision of thesevehicles really helps both the long term andshort term disabled people maintain theirindependence and assists them to integrateinto society. We have often been told by ourclients that the loan of the vehicle has changedtheir lives. The running of this service andfundraising is solely done by a dedicated groupof volunteers, some of whom are disabledthemselves. E-mail alan-dunn@talktalk.netChristmasDecorationcompetitionWell done to all theschemes that took partin the Christmas Decorationcompetition. Thephotographs you sent inshow that you enjoy makingthe communal areas lookspecial at Christmas. Judgingtook place at the Residents’Forum meeting in Januaryand the results are as follows:101st placeWessexCourt,Blandford,NorthDorset.2nd placeFriarsMoorCourt,SturminsterNewton,NorthDorset.3rd place The Pavilions,Shaftesbury, North Dorset.Congratulations to all wholive at the winning schemes.£50, £30 and £20respectively will go to theResidents’ Associations atthose schemes.