Trustees are pleased to support The Hamlet’s request for funding for your Specialist Early Years provision, providing support for families of children with disabilities and complex health needs. We appreciate that this also provides support for the wider family and appreciate the need for this in Norwich/Norfolk.
Go Live Theatre Projects’ three Inclusive Family Days provide children with a visual or hearing impairment to engage with theatre and experience a live show. Each Family Day will allow young people and their families to make friends by having lunch together, play some introductory games as a group, before exploring the story, themes and characters of the show they are seeing.
Trustees were fascinated to learn about your current production ‘Little Terror’ with interactive characters, an immersive set multisensory props and costumes and Makaton signing. We value the creativity and research that contributes to ETO productions, particularly those with an audience of children and with a wide range of learning difficulties.
Trustees note that production of your braille inserts has had to move from the prison braille unit and we are wondering whether there would be mileage in making contact with Living Paintings who do similar work with the production of braille and raised image flongs for insertion into published books. We commend your service and hope that our reduced grant will help to bridge the funding gap.
Trustees very much appreciate the work you are doing with the Family Support Service, helping isolated families with a listening ear, encouragement, practical tips, clinically correct information, advice and educational resources to help manage these complex problems.
