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Papworth Trust is a disability charity who help over 13,000 people in the East of England and the UK each year through a wide range of services covering Employment, Vocational Rehabilitation, Housing, Personal support and Learning for Life and Work.

Papworth Trust was created in 1963 in Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire.

In using the term "disabled" the Trust mean anyone who has a long-term health issue, learning difficulty, physical disability, sensory impairment, mental health issue or a combination of these or other impairments. They also mean anyone of any age.

As disability experts, Papworth Trust works with the Government, employers, service providers and commissioners to promote disability equality and good practice.

Learning for Life and Work
Learning for Life and Work focuses on increasing an individual's opportunity to learn to realise their potential and achieve their ambitions.

Papworth Trust will be developing and implementing new opportunities for learning over the next 12 months.

The Trust is aiming to secure funding to extend work experience services and generate a clear market-based business plan for transition services.

Papworth Trust is also trying to identify a location and develop a business plan for a new community learning centre in Bury St Edmunds.

The Trust has a number of centres based in, Basildon, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Ipswich and Papworth Everard, which deliver a range of opportunities, to help people learn to live independently including how to:


 * shop
 * cook
 * use public transport
 * look after money
 * use a computer and the internet
 * train towards work, including work experience, volunteering, and learning the skills to move into paid employment

Housing
Papworth Trust is a registered charity and Registered Social Landlord (Housing Association) specialising in the provision of wheelchair accessible homes. The Trust support people with a disability to live independently. As experts, they build and adapt accessible properties to the highest national standards.

The Trust provide accessible properties for disabled individuals or for families with a disabled child or adult. We have over 600 properties in the region, with plans to build more than 30 new houses each year. They also develop small supported housing schemes for between four and six people who require higher levels of support.

The Trust build to full wheelchair accessibility standards which can include features such as level-access showers and through-floor lifts. A disabled person may also need practical help to ensure they do not become socially isolated in their new homes; especially where people have moved out of residential care for the first time.

Papworth Trust has supported housing officers to help tenants get used to their new homes and become established in their communities ensuring they do not become socially isolated. They also provide scheme-based staff should supported housing tenants need more intensive day-to-day assistance.

People who acquire a disability or suffer from a progressive illness may need to make adaptations to their house or look for a more suitable property. Papworth Trust Home Solutions (PTHS) provides comprehensive and practical advice to people with disabilities who have a housing related problem.

 www.papworth.org.uk/tenantinformation

Personal Support
Papworth Trust is at the forefront of replacing residential care with supported housing, supporting people with disabilities to live as independently as possible.

Papworth Trust believes it is a fundamental right for everyone to be able to live independently and to participate more fully in their communities.

The Community Support teams who deliver personal care and support fits in with an individual's lifestyle and is tailored to their needs enabling them to meet their aspirations. This reflects the emerging trend for individuals to have greater choice and control through the use of Individual Budgets and Direct Payments (or Self-Directed Support) to directly purchase services that meet their care and support needs.

 www.papworth.org.uk/personalsupport

Employment
Papworth Trust helps 3,000 people each year to get and keep a job.

The Employment Services also works with Primary Care Trusts and GPs. Many patients who have a long term illness or disability want to work but fear losing their benefits if they contact their Jobcentre. For example, they support patients who are unemployed with depression, have low confidence and self esteem or who are recovering from a serious car accident or industrial accident, and who need support finding employment. A straightforward referral system is set up and tailored to the needs of each individual practice or GP.

Features of the Services:


 * individual assessment and job profiling
 * job search tuition
 * CV development
 * job coaching
 * employment advice and skills development
 * support once in work
 * confidence and motivational training
 * transferable skills analysis
 * self esteem building
 * applications writing
 * interview techniques and mock interviews
 * one-to-one recruitment advice and guidance
 * 'return to work' clubs
 * work placements

 www.papworth.org.uk/findingajob

Vocational Rehabilitation
Papworth Vocational Rehabilitation is a highly successful nationwide programme tailored to the individual to rebuild confidence, self-esteem and independence with a focus on gaining employment.

The programme was recognised for its success when it won the 'Rehab Provider of the Year' award at the 2008 Eclipse Proclaim Personal Injury Awards.

The unique programme is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of in-house professionals. It is successful in supporting people back into employment even when they have been out of work for a very long time. They use the biopsychosocial model to achieve results. The biopsychosocial model considers biological issues (the disease or condition), psychological issues (the impact on mental health) and social issues (other factors that may have a negative impact on health and well-being including employment issues)

The service provides vocational and medical rehabilitation services to people who have had an accident, trauma or ill health.  www.papworth.org.uk/vocationalrehabilitation

Empowerment
Empowerment is about disabled people having a bigger say about what happens to them in their lives and across our own organisation. Papworth Trust want their 13,000 service users at the heart of everything they do.

The Trust is developing:


 * a newsletter and designated website area with user blogs, information, advice and guidance services, including a virtual disability resource centre
 * disabillity equality training
 * a Disability Equality Scheme - a plan that demonstrates how an organisation will "promote disability equality" and makes sure that the things it does meets the needs of disabled people

 www.papworth.org.uk/empowerment

Support Papworth Trust
As a charity, Papworth Trust relies on the support of individuals, companies and Trusts. Without this support, the Trust would not be able to deliver the many services that they do for disabled people.

To support Papworth Trust to achieve their mission, visit  www.papworth.org.uk/supportus

Papworth Trust's history
Papworth Trust owes its beginnings to Dr (later Sir) Pendrill Varrier-Jones, a social pioneer who founded the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony.

The Colony was later to become the Papworth village settlement and the forerunner of Papworth Trust. Varrier-Jones' vision was to create not just a hospital or rehabilitation centre for TB patients, but a whole community.

The Colony began at Bourn in Cambridgeshire in 1917. However Varrier-Jones soon collected enough funding (£6,000) to purchase Papworth Hall, and the Colony moved to the village of Papworth Everard the following year. With the hall went most of the land in the parish and, under Varrier-Jones' management, the Papworth Colony rapidly expanded.

Although there were still many deaths from TB, the aim was to rehabilitate sufferers by providing treatment for them (surgery and 'fresh air') and offering them appropriate work and housing.

The Papworth Village Settlement continued to accommodate TB patients until 1957; some patients still live in the village. The principle of supporting people into independent living was gradually extended to people with a wide range of disabilities.

At that time, the Settlement's guiding principle was the integration of people with different disabilities into the village community.

The first disabled clients arrived in 1957, and the numbers of people in the village increased over the subsequent years. Many disabled people came to Papworth Everard for training, with some subsequently remaining in the village, and others returning home to work elsewhere. The hospital itself passed to the newly-formed National Health Service in 1954.

Jobs
Attitudes. Physical barriers. There are many ways disabled people find their lives restricted. Papworth Trust are committed to demolishing these barriers and enabling disabled people to live their lives to the full.