Lottery Winners Return to Bobath Children’s Centre
Several months after a team of National Lottery millionaires created a magical, gingerbread- inspired playhouse for a Cardiff charity, some of the winners paid a return visit to the children’s centre to see how their donation was making a difference to the lives of staff and visitors. Last December, 24 lottery winners spent 48-hours at Bobath Children’s Therapy Centre Wales, transforming a log cabin into a giant gingerbread house to give the charity some much needed extra space. Winners worth in excess of £5million popped into the Whitchurch facility to see the new gingerbread house in action and help add a touch of summer to the charity’s garden by installing some colourful fl oral displays. Bobath in Cardiff is a centre for children with cerebral palsy which has previously received over £490K in funding thanks to National Lottery players. Bobath therapists
has been turned into a vital meeting room for a charity that is quickly outgrowing its Cardiff base. Rachel Morgan, Head of Income Generation for Bobath said: “We were thrilled when The National Lottery winners offered to build us a new meeting room. In our time in Whitchurch, Bobath has grown so much that every inch of our centre is being used.
Lottery winners help get Bobath’s garden ready for summer. are
state registered
physiotherapists, occupational therapists or speech and language therapists, with specialist training and expertise in
the treatment of cerebral palsy. The team works together combining the three disciplines to deliver this specialist service and to look at the individual
needs of the child.
The returning lottery winners from across Wales met staff and visitors to hear about how their gingerbread house
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Bobath has previously benefi tted from National Lottery funding and nine grants totalling £493,937 from the Big Lottery Fund to increase and improve the facilities of the therapy centre, effectively helping double the space of the
Whitchurch charity. Winners helping to spruce up Bobath’s gardens included Lyn Sexton and Ian Pearce from Merthyr, Matthew Evans from Barry, Nigel Willetts from Caerphilly, and Chris, Geraldine, Barry and Yvonne Bradley from Llanelli.
The project is just one of thousands of projects in Wales to benefi t from National Lottery funding. Since the launch of The National Lottery, £1.6 billion has been shared with 46,000 projects, covering a diverse range of sectors from arts, heritage, sport, education, environment, health and charity.
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