Goldhay Arts the centre that supports adults with learning disabilities has learned that its finances are in deficit to the tune of forty four thousand pounds. Without some additional help it could close. Sarah Burckitt from Goldhay Arts talks to the BBC’s Andy Gall. This interview was broadcast at 08:20 on Wednesday 28th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.
Goldhay Arts the centre that supports adults with learning disabilities has learned that its finances are in deficit to the tune of forty four thousand pounds. Without some additional help it could close. Sarah Burckitt from Goldhay Arts talks to the BBC’s Andy Gall. This interview was broadcast at 08:20 on Wednesday 28th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.
ANDY: Eight twenty one now. Good morning. A Peterborough charity is under threat of closing down because of lack of funding. Goldhay Arts helps adults with learning disabilities with socialising and learning new skills. Bev from Peterborough has a daughter with Downs Syndrome who attends the group, and she was devastated by the news.
BEV: (TAPE) It’s my lifeline. That’s the only break I get from Emily, three days a week when she is at Goldhay. And all her friends, it’s social, she has more of a social life than I do. But at least I get a break. For those three days that she comes here I have time to myself. When you have a handicapped child it’s a twenty four seven mental thing. But here I don’t have to worry, because they treat her exactly as I do. Continue reading “Goldhay Arts in Crisis”
