Annual art exhibition and sale
in aid of five Kent charities:
Sevenoaks Mencap   Rethink   MacIntyre
The Fynvola Foundation   Self Unlimited

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The Charities

Since the Kent Painters' Group began over nineteen years ago, it has raised and distributed more than £200,000 to mental health and handicap charities in Kent.

RETHINK severe mental illness
(formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship)

RETHINK exists to help people with severe mental illness, their families and carers. Locally, the Sevenoaks Carers Support Group organises meetings for carers, with speakers, for ten months of the year and represents RETHINK on local committees involved with mental health issues. They also offer support to the local RETHINK housing project, and help sufferers and carers in many different ways.
 

www.rethink.org
Registered Charity: 271028

Sevenoaks Mencap

Samples of our artists work - click to enlarge...
 

Sevenoaks Mencap supports people with learning disability; their families and carers. They promote understanding of members’ capabilities and needs by the community, which includes co-operation and planning with Social Services and Health Authorities.

The Sevenoaks Mencap Committee is responsible for the smooth running of local activities and for fund raising to support them. The Committee are most grateful for the financial help given by the Kent Painters Group.

www.mencap.org.uk

Registered Charity: 222377

The Fynvola Foundation

The Fynvola Foundation is the leading charity provider of nursing care for older learning disabled people, who are recognised as one of the most excluded and vulnerable in society.

Fynvola Foundation provides specialist residential high dependency nursing and care for older learning disabled people to the end of life. Residents are valued and treated as individuals. They can end their days peacefully in comfortable surroundings, secure in the knowledge that they will receive the best possible nursing and palliative care. A place will be available for respite, crisis situations and convalescence.

A range of social and day activities are available, as well as access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy on site.

Above all the Fynvola Foundation is committed to offering the very best in high quality care.
 

www.fynvola.org.uk

Registered Charity: 1122788

MacIntyre

MacIntyre is a national charity that provides learning, support and care for more than 700 children and adults with learning disabilities, at more than 120 MacIntyre centres. In Kent there are two – at Wateringbury and Sevenoaks. KPG donations will provide facilities and additional resources.
 

www.macintyrecharity.org
Registered Charity: 250840

Self Unlimited - Edenbridge

Self Unlimited maintains a network of support services for people with learning disabilities across the country. They have a skilled and dedicated staff force and over forty years’ practical experience in assisting people to live as independently as possible and to realise their full potential.

KPG donations have previously bought considerable quantities of workshop equipment such as a sewing machine, weaving equipment, trolleys for the garden centre and musical equipment as well as outdoor sports and leisure kit and a snooker table.
 

www.selfunlimited.co.uk
Registered Charity: 250058