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Mairi Morrison: The Sense Scotland is a social care organisation and we’ve been in existence
now for 22 years and we started out as a family support group and grew from there. The families
are still very much involved in the organisation. So our core function is to support deaf, blind
and disabled children and adults and their families throughout Scotland. Lottery funders
helped us to buy quite a range of equipment across the country mainly for our music activities
and visual arts and also to set up new firm advisory services across Scotland as well.
Particularly with somebody like Touch Base we were able to refurbish the building, we
were able to buy the equipment to furbish these art rooms, a new recording studio and
then we were able to develop the centre, to market the services, to develop the range
of services we’re providing within the centre, that’s called reaching out.
Female Speaker: Sense Scotland have helped us a great deal in Amy’s life from the age
of six she had respite care right up to she was a teenager and now they have supported
us in getting her independent accommodation and they support her for her independent life
and she’s been working at Sense as well so it’s all being very helpful and wonderful.
Amy: It’s fabulous and wonderful. I love working on reception because it gets me much
more confidence and understanding of the world. Female Speaker: I’m just so proud of the
fact that she has achieved this because it’s what you wish for as a parent, that your child
can achieve and be an independent person in society.
David McCluskey: I love it when parents can come in and they can talk about actual long
term benefits that that person is developing and in other areas of life which shall extend
outside the arts session or the music session. Male Speaker: I certainly got a lot of missing
people and the best part about this music sessions is that you can actually think of
what all these pieces of equipment Mairi Morrison: To win a national lottery
award, it was such a boost to the people we support and to the families that we are working
with. It would be a real recognition of their needs, the services that Sense Scotland provide,
the support we provide and the difference the lottery fund has made to them.
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