New Forest Disability is a charity providing free, impartial, confidential disability-related information, advice and guidance to people in the New Forest of any age affected by any disability
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News and events
Advice Quality Standard
New Forest Disability were delighted to receive notification the external audit that scrutinises all areas of the service resulted in a re-award of the prestigious AQS standard. This award will help our clients to know we are a quality approved charity providing a high standard of advice.
Celebrating our Volunteers
At our Annual Public Meeting on Wednesday 26 October we celebrated our wonderful volunteers by presenting their long service certificates. Bronze for 1 month – 4 years; silver 5 – 9 years; gold 10 – 14 years; Platinum 15 – 19 years & Diamond 20 – 25 years. from L to R: Callum 5 years.…
Purple Tuesday
Has your business or organisation signed up for this year’s Purple Tuesday on 1st November? If not, you could be missing out! A surprising statistic is that 80% of disabled people have an invisible or hidden impairment, but only 10% of organisations have a plan in place to access the growing market of the Purple…
Praise for New Forest Disability Just Got Home service
New Forest Disability (NFD) Just Got Home (JGH) programme provides a professional Hospital to Home service that is available to New Forest residents from Lymington, Fordingbridge and Romsey Hospitals. A recent Just Got Home client reported to us that they found the service extremely useful, and went on to say ‘the information provided by the Just…
Sway Village Fete Saturday 2 July
Come and see us at Sway Village Fete We shall have advisors on hand to answer any disability related enquiries such as benefits, disabled facilities Grants, equipment needs etc. Also lightly used jigsaw puzzles and paperbacks for sale. Look out for our distinctive gazebo.
Update from Mark Parker’s Cape Wrath walk
Mark Parker is walking the Cape Wrath trail and has just sent us an update. This is what he says: On 14 September I began walking the Cape Wrath Trail, one of the world’s finest long distance walks. The route crosses the north west of Scotland from Fort William to Cape Wrath through the…