Our Vision
Support – To offer advice, reassurance and comfort to those in need
Care - To protect the vulnerable and nurture the young
Friendship - To promote harmony, goodwill and understanding
Our Mission
Companionship and a sense of family
We work with the elderly and adults with disabilities; the housebound and socially isolated. We provide a warm, welcoming environment where our visitors can enjoy companionship and a sense of family in beautiful, tranquil surroundings.
Guidance, help and a listening ear
Through a range of services we offer practical, physical and emotional assistance in order to enhance and increase quality of life.
Health and education
We develop facilities that promote wellbeing and extend the opportunity to explore, enjoy and experience the natural world through practical involvement.
We embrace the learning outside the classroom ethos and provide an inspirational learning environment for children of all ages, abilities and diverse ethnic and social backgrounds.
Our Values
The Foundation was conceived by and through the selfless generosity of its founder; the late David A Clarke. The simplicity of what the Foundation offers is what makes it unique and as we expand and develop our work in the years to come David’s vision will always be at the heart of what we do.
We are committed to working in partnership and treating all with respect and compassion.
Charitable Activities
In-House Visitors from throughout the county are entertained daily at the Foundation’s two houses on the edge of Leicestershire’s Charnwood Forest. They enjoy restful and supportive surroundings and benefit from the opportunity for social interaction and companionship. The visitors are comprised of individuals brought together in groups from the same area, with their partner or carer on a car day visit, or as a member of an organized support group, residential home or association.
Special Care Days & Craft Workshops. The former offer the opportunity to visit the Foundation to visitors who are no longer able to look after themselves when out, whilst the latter, which are tailored to the needs of the individual visitors, provides an encouraging and friendly environment in which adults of all ages with disabilities can develop their skills, dexterity and mobility through a number of craft projects.
Men Only Days allow men who are widowed, suffer from disabilities or illness and are lonely / isolated to mix with others whose circumstances are similar. The group provides the opportunity for male social interaction, to enjoy games such as dominoes and cards and to have fun. Recent activities at the group have been scalextric racing, snooker and radio controlled cars.
The Foundation’s Outside Visiting Scheme, which has primarily a befriending role, provides a listening ear and advice to those who are unable to visit the Foundation. The team of three outside visitors covers a wide area of north Leicestershire and they access their clients through referrals from a variety of sources.
A Free Mobility Aid loan scheme which provides a selection of items, including electric buggies, push wheelchairs and a small selection of walking frames and aids, on free indefinite loan.
The walks, pathways, sensory garden and wheelchair accessible bird hides that the Foundation has installed within its grounds are used by our daily visitors, additional visiting groups of elderly and disabled adults, painters, photographers. An electric golf buggy has also been provided to allow access to these facilities for our less mobile visitors.
The Yew Trail and the surrounding grounds provide an inspirational, magical environment where children of all ages, abilities and diverse ethnic and social backgrounds can explore, enjoy and experience the natural world through practical involvement.
This wonderful site offers a wide variety of activities that suit the learning needs
and styles of a range of individuals and provides the opportunity to study cross
curriculum activities. Here young people can escape the confines of a conventional classroom and observe and investigate a wide variety of flora, fauna, animals and birds and enjoy the tree trail, shelter building , Yurt classroom, pond dipping and many other activities. Yew Trail is ideal for schools, young people with special educational needs, special schools, youth groups and organisations.
The Forest School area is an area of undeveloped woodland that is used for Forest School leader training and by small supervised groups of disadvantaged young people and young adults / children with learning difficulties.
