Leonard Cheshire Home is a major health and welfare charity working in the United Kingdom and running development projects around the world.
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10 Facts About Cheshire Home
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Group Captain Leonard Cheshire started the charity in 1948 when he took a dying man, who had nowhere else to go, into his own home: a country house called Le Court, near Liss in Hampshire.
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Leonard Cheshire Home were one of the first UK charities to introduce a professional volunteer support team.
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In 2010, Leonard Cheshire Home launched their Young Voices website and programme that supported disabled children around the world to campaign for access and their human rights.
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Leonard Cheshire Home launched the 'Make Care Fair' campaign in 2013, calling on councils to stop 15 minute care visits, as advised by the Care Act 2014 and NICE Guidelines.
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In 2016, it was announced that 18 care homes owned by Leonard Cheshire would be put up for sale, including homes in Leeds, Sheffield, Calderdale and York, Wolverhampton, Derbyshire, Oxford and Lincolnshire.
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Leonard Cheshire provides support to disabled people through a variety of services including care at home, residential care and training and skills programmes.
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Rehabilitation of disabled people was supported through Ryder-Cheshire Home Volunteers, founded in 1986, which is the Enrych charity.
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