Hope Lea

The Hope Lea Project is a Hucknall organisation that helps people with learning disabilities and their carers providing an excellent service ever since its inception in 1984.  Hucknall Rotary Club has consistently supported Hope Lea, both practically and financially and fully endorsed the fantastic work done by the skilled staff working on the Hope Lea Project. The qualified staff aim to unlock people’s potential and devise tailor-made programmes for service users, while the project also encouraged voluntary workers for its day services.  Activities organised at Hope Lea include laptop, gardening, domestic skills, arts and crafts, bowling and music therapy groups, as well as a gentle-exercise class and a recycling project.

During the 1980’s and 1990’s members of Hucknall Rotary Club funded and built extensions to the projects headquarters in Hucknall

The following  is a newspaper report which appeared in the Hucknall Dispatch, Friday 20^th July 2012:

HUCKNALL’S Hope Lea Project, which caters for adults with learning disabilities and their families, has received a double cash boost.

The charity has been presented with a donation of £250 by Hucknall Rotary Club and one of £115 by Coun John Wilmott (Lab), deputy leader of Ashfield District Council, from an allowance which councillors receive for worthy causes in their wards.

Stalwart Rotarians Richard White and Terry Moult helped out at Hope Lea’s annual garden party, held at its base on Watnall Road. The event raised the bumper total of about £1,500.

Various stalls and games were organised and the star prize in a raffle was a ride in a limousine, donated by the Co-op Funeral Service.

Coun Wilmott (left) and Mr White handing over their cheques to Hope Lea chief Judith Storey 

“The winner decided to donate the prize back to us,” said Hope Lea’s managing director, Judith Storey. “This means that our users will enjoy a trip in the limousine next month,”