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This week BIRT's Redford Court is celebrating 20 years of service. Celebrations have included an afternoon tea with service users, family and friends.

Sam, a service user at Graham Anderson House, has started writing poetry and recently performed to audiences at a pub in Glasgow.

The Huw Thatcher Trust has just published the 2016 / 17 report. Since 2011 it has raised over £114,000 for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust which has helped purchase IT, physio and therapy equipment.

As part of World Autism Awareness Week 26 March – 2 April, The Disabilities Trust wants to celebrate Ferenc’s considerable artistic talents. Ferenc is a service user at The Maples in Reading.

A team of people at EDF Energy in Crawley attended a presentation by Danielle Prendergast of The Disabilities Trust, about the types of adaptations they can make in their workplace to enable an employee with autism to work in an office successfully.

The service users at Eastbourne's Shinewater Court are a creative bunch and were busy making Mother's Day cards with the help of volunteers from Tesco in the Langney Shopping Centre.

The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) is proud to be one of the very few specialist brain injury providers which publishes its outcomes and we have now released our latest Outcome Report 2017.

Dr Brian O’Neill, consultant from Graham Anderson House in Glasgow, gave a keynote speech at the at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Neuropsychology’s Annual Networking Event.

Initial analysis for the year to the end of April 2017 reveals that The Disabilities Trust had a small negative gender pay gap. This means that, against the national trend for all employers and for the third sector, women earned slightly more than men.

A round up of some wonderful accomplishments from the service users at The Maples. These include a watery surprise from Fergus and some new creations from Ferenc!