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Our impact

For over 50 years we have been supporting people to access the kind of social, leisure and learning lifestyle that everyone should take for granted

Awards

In 2017, on our 50th anniversary, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded us the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, recognised as the MBE for volunteer groups.

The BUILD Charity in numbers

  • 276 separate community based opportunities offered to people with a disability in Norfolk in 2021-22
  • 2,500 individual engagement with people with disabilities using our services in 2021-22
  • Over 700 individual engagements where volunteers supported our programmes and governance
  • only 13p in every £1 spent by the charity is passed on to our beneficiaries (a cost we have brought down from 28p in 2016)
  • 49 Registered volunteers (June 2022)
  • 16% of our volunteers identify as having a disability

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2021 Show Reel here 

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    Build Charity has provided a place of safety for people with any type of disability to feel accepted and do activities within the community.  They can go to a restaurant, ten pin bowling, go for walks, climbing, gardening with other people; thereby establishing relationships within a safe environment.  BUILD enables them to go on public transport with support so that they can access other facilities.

    By Build providing these supported activities people with different disabilities can go out without their parents/carer to enable them to lead a ‘normal life’.  They can choose the activities in which they would like to participate they were.

    Without BUILD Charity the person with a disability would lead a lonely life and would find be isolated from the world ant not be able to join in the activities which are now available to them.

    From an Anonymous Parent-Carer

    Published: 3rd January, 2020

    Updated: 1st June, 2022

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      Joining In our Programmes

      We offer around 300 different community based social, leisure and learning opportunities each year. Here is how you can join in.

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      Meet the team

      We employ a small, but high quality, team of mainly part-time staff to co-ordinate our services supported by a team of around 80 volunteers.

    • Community Opportunities Programme

      Community Opportunities Programme

      Community based social, and leisure, opportunities for people with disabilities.

    • What we do

      What we do

      We provide community based social, leisure and learning opportunities for anyone with any disability aged 18 and above in Norfolk.

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      We rely on the support of around 60 volunteers at the BUILD Charity. Here is how you can get involved.

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    • About us

      About us

      Established in 1967 the BUILD Charity provides social, leisure and learning opportunities for people with disabilities in Norfolk.

    Our impact

    Our impact

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    Published: 3rd January, 2020

    Updated: 1st June, 2022

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