Redwoods-v11

CONTENTS
Introduction from Founding Directors............... 1
About Us.................................................................... 5
What We Value......................................................... 6
Our Facilities............................................................. 8
Care and Support.................................................... 10
Day Services............................................................. 12
Music Therapy.......................................................... 13
Our Staff..................................................................... 14
The Future................................................................. 17
How can you connect with us?............................ 18
30 Years of Care...................................................... 20
Introduction
We are the parents of two lovely
daughters. Our second daughter,
Sharon, was born with Downs Syndrome
in 1963. Those many years ago there
was considerably less help or services
available for people with a learning
disability and Sharon lived with us for
the first 23 years of her life. By this time
we realised that to provide the care
and support she needed would require
action on our part so in 1986 we started
The Redwoods Caring Foundation
(Redwoods) and Sharon, together with
one other lady, moved into our first
residential home.
Being Christians, we have never doubted
that God our Father would always be
present with the precious group of
people that gradually joined us. His love
and provision was without question and
we have many examples over the last
30 years to illustrate this: the fact that
Sharon would rather be in her own home
Brian & Shirley Hayes
Founding Directors
in Redwoods with her own friends than
with mum and dad is testimony to the
love and great care that she receives.
As you will see in this brochure, over the
years Redwoods has expanded, enabling
us to care for and support many more
people. Each member of the Redwoods
family is very special to us, as are all
our wonderful staff teams who give
sacrificially into the lives of those we
support in Day Services and in their own
homes.
One of the reasons we are all full of
anticipation for the future is we believe
that we will continue to experience
and expect the intervention of our
amazing God more and more. He is very
interested in Redwoods – indeed He
owns it!
We pray that you will both enjoy this
brochure and be inspired as you read
through these pages.
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