THANK YOU HOUSE PROJECT PEACEHAVEN – written by Sharon, Brian’s Daughter ….

Two Saturday’s ago (29th July) we received a telephone call at 8:30am in the morning. Upon answering the call it was from the House Project they had held their committee meeting the day before and reviewed my email explaining about what we were trying to do in order to raise £6,500 for a ceiling hoist and wondered if the House Project may be able to help.

Jean Farmiloe was on the end of the line and she said she was pleased to be able to confirm that it was a unanimous vote and they had seen how hard we were working to try and raise the funds and wanted to confirm that they would be funding the rest of the hoist! I thought I had misheard but she repeated it as yes for once in my life I went quiet (I was in total shock!), in the background I remember my boyfriend saying are you ok what has happened to your dad! But it wasn’t dad it was the best news we could have wished for and to be honest I hadn’t realised the pressure of what we had been doing until at that moment I became a sobbing wreck.

I hopefully gained a bit of composure and said thank you about a million times and rambled on to poor Jean whilst she explained something about getting signatures for cheques. The call ended and I sat in silence for all of 1 minute and then told Richard what had happened and then said – I’ve got to tell mum…

Picking up the phone I dialled her number, she answered sleepily and I said I had news, good news and told her – she went quiet and starting sobbing … so there we were two people sobbing together at each end of the phone but with the biggest smile you can imagine.

Personally I can’t say thank them enough they have made our lives a bit more bearable and to top it all just as I was picking my mum up outside her house on the way to see my dad who should turn up but Jean with a cheque. We jumped in my car and quickly got to Seaford to pay the money in to the bank, the whole banking team know what we have been doing we are there every week paying in monies and they follow our progress on what we have made at each weekend’s car boot sales or Peacehaven Mini Market sales. Even they were delighted!

The last thing that happened on this day was that I was able to say to my dad, …. Dad we have the money for the ceiling hoist the House Project just donated lots of money to us…. The smile on his face was amazing and I will never forget it.

Thanks you to all the committee members (I’m sorry I don’t know your names) you don’t know how much it meant to us getting that call on a Saturday morning! x

WHEELCHAIR CAR

Whilst we wait for the planning decision and knowing that we have the money for the adaptation and ceiling hoist we have decided to continue with our fundraising as I would like to get a second hand vehicle that we can push a wheelchair in to… At the moment unless we have hospital transport we don’t get the chance to take dad to see see his family or the outside world. We think that these can be obtained for £4000 – £5000 so we are going to continue and see if we can get one for this or cheaper if we can..

So we are still selling all our donation to get there ….