Spring Newsletter
Posted By: Anthony, 95 days ago
The JustDifferent ‘Changing Times’ Spring Newsletter is now available. Please click here to view your copy. If you would like to receive this by email, please enter click here.
Spring Newsletter
Become our Facebook Fan
Posted By: Anthony, 95 days ago
Become our Facebook fan and tell your friends all about JustDifferent! Just click on the Facebook link above and then click on ‘like’. Then click on ’suggest to friends’ to tell everyone about us!
Follow the work of JustDifferent and help us to tell people about what we do. See you on there!
A message from Simon Weston OBE
Posted By: Anthony, 106 days ago
A message from Simon Weston OBE-’It’s not what happens to you, but what you do about it!’
‘ I write this message having recently met an amazing and incredible young man, Toby.
What this inspiring individual teaches us is that impairment is simply a frame of mind. I accept that disability changes lives, that some things are more difficult to achieve- but the key is in the word difficult not impossible!!
Toby is a shining example of how will power and endeavor help us to succeed. He continues to work tirelessly to raise the awareness of disability, difference and diversity as empowering to all of us.
With the right support it is possible to achieve almost anything you set your sights towards. Just because our packaging is different does not make us any less valuable and a vital cog in that wheel of everyday life.
I truly am so impressed by the way Toby’s plans continue to change and develop- the sky is absolutely the limit and let’s not rule out the stars!!
For all of us - abled and disabled people, the rules are the same, if you work hard and put in lots of effort. you get so much more in return. Satisfaction, peace, happiness, motivation, pride and a sense of fulfillment.
My motto has always been ; ‘It’s not what happens to you, but what you do about it!’
Nobody promised us that life would be easy, but as Toby shows us, the struggle is so worth it.
Simon Weston OBE ‘
JustDifferent move into Suffolk
Posted By: Anthony, 112 days ago
Hope House Suffolk is delighted to be working jointly with JustDifferent to deliver Workshops in schools across Suffolk.
Hope House Suffolk was established as a charity in 2000 in order to facilitate the building of a fully furnished and equipped purpose built bungalow for four profoundly disabled young people. The project received tremendous support from the community and Hope House was officially opened in April 2002. It is now a ‘home from home’ for the lifetime of its four residents who receive sensitive and professional care twenty four hours a day. For some time now, the Trustees of Hope House Suffolk have considered ways in which education about disability could be introduced into our schools. Hope House Suffolk is delighted to be working jointly with JustDifferent to achieve this in schools across Suffolk.
If you are a school in Suffolk and would like to receive a Workshop, please contact vicki@justdifferent.org for more information.
Justgiving-the easy way to donate
Posted By: Anthony, 112 days ago
If you would like to donate to JustDifferent, please find our JustGiving page at www.justgiving.com/justdifferent.
We would like to thank all our supporters who have raised funds through the JustGiving site in the past and to all those who are about to participate in fundraising activities for us. Keep up the good work!