Travel Weekly is delighted to announce that Leonard Cheshire Disability will be the Northern Ball charity with a casino to entertain guests whilst raising funds for the cause.

Leonard Cheshire Disability exists to change attitudes to disability and to serve disabled people around the world. Our principal activity in the UK is the provision of services in support of disabled people in the widest context. These services include care homes, supported living, domiciliary support, day services, resource centres, rehabilitation, respite care, personal support and training and assistance for those looking for work.

Leonard Cheshire Disability was founded by the late Group Captain Lord Cheshire of Woodhall in 1948. By then a famous war hero, living alone in an isolated mansion in Hampshire he discovered that one of the former members of the community for ex servicemen and women was terminally ill and had nowhere to go.  Lord Cheshire offered to care for him in his own home and he found others in need coming to him for help.

Leonard Cheshire Disability now operates in all parts of the UK and are the largest voluntary sector provider of care and support services for disabled people.

In the last year:  

• Around 21,000 disabled people in the UK used Leonard Cheshire services
• 1.4 million hours of care were provided by the UK Care at Home services
• Day services were provided to 1,570 disabled people
• 90% of all the disabled people using the charity’s services live in their own home
• There were over 3,000 active volunteers in the UK.
• There were 2,100 places in Leonard Cheshire residential services
• 720 people stayed at Park House Hotel on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, the Leonard Cheshire hotel specifically for disabled people and their families.
• Over 7,000 staff were employed