The long awaited demolition of the White Hart Public House, Hook Road, Hook, Chessington is to begin on the 25th August 2010. We are all very pleased that our brand new residential building is one step closer to completion!
It's finally Spring in the garden and it's a perfect time to revive your baskets and containers. Why not bring them down to The Fircroft Centre and let the Gardening Project work their magic on them? They will replant with summer bedding.
At a meeting in January, the Royal Borough of Kingston granted planning permission for The Fircroft Trust to build new homes for our residents with learning disabilities on the site of the de-licensed White Hart pub in Hook.
We can hardly believe that the Gardening Project celebrated its 1st anniversary on Monday 8th March. The project which runs at The Fircroft Centre was started to provide a variety of different gardening and horticultural opportunities tailored to meet the needs of people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and others experiencing social exclusion.
We are terribly sad to report the passing of Marion, a resident at Maple Lodge for over 25 years. Marion was incredibly popular with staff and had many friends, she will be sadly missed by all of them.
Sam for doing a parachute jump in aid of The Fircroft Trust and raising over £900! We are particularly grateful to Sam as he is scared of heights! Thank you to everyone who supported our Burns Night Supper and Auction.
Exciting news! On Thursday 15th January 2009, The Fircroft Trust's architect Jim Garland visited us with the first plans for Fircroft Park. We were absolutely delighted with what we saw and it was also marvellous to see that Jim clearly shares our commitment to providing the highest quality accomodation that we possibly can for our residents.
An enormous thank you to the St Paul's Players, Hook, for a wonderful evening at their Christmas Pantomime, Pinocchio, on Friday. 30 staff, service users and residents of The Fircroft Trust were amongst the audience and all the profits from this years performances are being donated to our charity.
The Fircroft Trust completed on the purchase of The White Hart Pub, Hook Road, Chessington on 25th November 2008. I think you will all agree this is fantastic news for the future of our charity and more importantly our wonderful residents.