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What families say

Thousands of severely disabled children and young people have benefited from the money raised and grants given by the Family Fund. Here are just a few of their comments and stories:

Cally

Our daughter Cally has reached the age of 17 now and we wanted to send a BIG THANK YOU to the family fund for all the help we have recieved from you. We cant say thank you enough. Cally has Downs syndrome and other disabilities and severe learning difficulties, and life has been up and down emot...

Freedom

We have four children,Thomas who has Aspergers Syndrome and is deaf aged 13, Adam who as Dyspraxia, Hypermobility syndrome, low muscle tone, learning difficulties aged 6 and Jessica who is deaf and speech impairments aged 4. It was last November when we applied to the Family Fund to ask for help for a ...

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Callys story

The Family Fund has helped my daughter cally and my family for the past 13 yrs. I took my driving lessons and test first and through the years we have had washers,dryers,holidays,clothes and bedding, to name a few. We can not thank you enough for the help we have recieved over the years.Cally has...

Holiday

My daughter - Nicole and I wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to Family Fund ! Nicole (14yrs),is a child with severe learning difficulties, cerebal palsy and an epilepsy. Nicole and I never went on holiday together. I am a single parent with 2 children and keeping up with the budget is a challeng...

Life with a disabled child

I am writing this just to say how grateful our family is to the Family Fund. I am a carer for my son, Toby who has Cerebral Palsy. He is also partially blind and is currently being assessed for Autism. In our house, we have reversed rolls so Toby's mum works full time and I have taken over the ro...

Many thanks

my 10 year old son connor has adhd,dsypraxia and learning disablties.the family fund first helped me back in 2006 in helping me pass my driving test in june 2007 it makes life so much easier having the car appointments arent an issue now,also the days out are move often than before the help from ...

my little survivor

i was so excited when i found out i was pregnant for the 1st time just like all new mums to be.not long before my world tore apart at my 5 month scan when the sonagrapher said your baby will not survive she has microcephaly with an encelopheole.the decision was up to me.after hard thinking i deci...

Nathan's Grown up!

My son william was born in 1986, all his milestones achieved, a healthy happy little chappy - in 1991 a little brother arrived, Nathan- earlier than expected, and things just seemed "not quite right" from go - Nathan wouldn't/couldn't feed and failed to achieve all the usual mile stones. my boys ...

Our family

In 1992, We gave birth to a beautiful healthy boy, we called him Craig. He was such a beautful baby and we feel in love with him immediately. When Craig was a toddler we noticed that he was having some difficuties. He began language therapy and began a nursery suited for children who experien...

ryan

My son Ryan is nearly four and has very little speech and understanding (a severe speech sound disorder and delay) and also has co-ordination problems.  He is undergoing diagnosis, because of his problems it has been very difficult to toilet train him and when my washing machine broke it made matt...

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