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News Release COMPAID Trust
Pembury Hospital
Tunbridge Wells
TN2 4QJ

COMPAID Trust awarded Big Lottery – Awards for All grant

9th January 2006

Pembury-based charity, COMPAID Trust, celebrated the start of its 20th year by scooping a £4,685 grant from Lottery distributor, Awards for All. COMPAID, which works with disabled adults in Kent and Sussex, will use the grant to set up an exhibition of artwork and design celebrating the creativity and artistry of the charity’s disabled clients.

Until now, COMPAID Trust has chiefly been known only as a provider of special-needs transport. Many of COMPAID Trust’s disabled clients use computers and specialist software that replicate the effects of oils, watercolour and pastel finishes to produce highly accomplished and distinctive artwork. Greetings cards and posters of many of the designs are sold by COMPAID in support of its work.

The Awards for All grant will help pay for the services of a professional artist to work with COMPAID’s disabled clients to develop design and painting skills and to advise on framing and mounting finished artwork for the exhibition, which is planned for mid-year.

COMPAID Trust fundraising manager, Barry O’Sullivan, said, “This award will enable us to mount the definitive exhibition of our clients’ work. COMPAID’s 20th anniversary coincides with Tunbridge Wells 400th celebrations and the exhibition will, we hope, draw attention to the wonderful work done by our disabled artists as well as celebrating the diversity of talent in the town”

COMPAID Trust is looking for a disabled user-friendly venue in the centre of Tunbridge Wells in which to hold its planned exhibition.

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Contact details:
Barry O’Sullivan – Fundraising manager
01892-824060 – Day
07709 284459 – Mobile

Notes to Editor:
COMPAID Trust is a registered charity, no 1064160, that helps disabled adults use computers for therapeutic, educational and recreational activities and provides special needs-adapted transport for disabled, elderly and vulnerable people living in Kent and Sussex.

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