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Bedford's 2024 Christmas Appeal
'Tis the Season for Giving!
We invite you to give a gift this Christmas and share in our commitment to support people with disability, to live the life they choose.
Even a small contribution can make a big impact and your tax-deductible donation can create a lasting impact to the lives of people with disability.
Gift joy, choice and more opportunities.
Wishing you a safe and joyful festive season with your loved ones.
$10
Small change creates big impact
Every donation will help support people living with disabilty to learn more about healthy eating and how to grow your own veggies too!
$25
Gift an experience
Provide opportunities for clients to engage, expand knowledge, develop new skills, and connect with others in enjoyable and meaningful ways.
$50
Creating Rainbows
Your donation will provide specialist art teachers and tools to inspire our artists to participate in exhibitions like this year's South Australian Living Artists (SALA).
$75
An Essential Gift
The festive season is a time for joy and celebration, but for many, this time of the year can be overwhelming. Your donation will create and update sensory spaces - reducing anxiety and overstimulation with soothing lights, sounds, and textures.
$100
Gift Connection & Conversation
Who doesn't love going out for a long lunch and making a new friend? Your donation will create more choices for Social Saturday programs supporting people living with disability to connect over lunch, by the sea or try something new like strawberry picking, bowling or a community garden.
$125
Support new artistry
With each piece made with pride, over 114 artists creatively express their feelings, goals and hopes. An online auction facilitated sales and income for each artist – an exciting first for Bedford’s SALA exhibition this year.
$150
Gift Inclusion
Creative and performing arts provide opportunities for people living with disabiity to fulfil a creative drive in a safe and encouraging environment. Also exhibiting work in festivals such as SALA, and selling their own pieces, gives artists exposure and income.
$200
Gift a Garden Bed
Help people living with disability learn how to grow food, create and follow a gardening calendar and decide what vegetables they would like to eat. Gardening days are focused on providing high quality supports that enhance overall health and wellbeing.
$250
Explore.Learn.Create.
Everyone is unique, help support inclusive activities to suit different interests and goals. Art, Life or Work-ready skills, require specific equipment like cameras, tripods, music boards, multi function laser tool for micro enterprises.
$500
Fun in the Sun
The holiday season is a time for joy and celebration, help us buy new BBQs, outdoor furniture, games and create more shaded areas to have fun, safely outdoors.
$1000
Gift Skills for Life
Help develop and build on independent living skills including numeracy and literacy development, building computer and budgeting skills, gardening, sewing and much more!
$5000
Gift artistic tools
Support artistic expression and the opportunity to showcase our artists’ works at exhibitions across the state. We offer a mix of visual and performing arts including painting, music, dance and Cricut but we always need more supplies, tools and teachers!
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As we wrap up another remarkable year, it’s time to celebrate the countless achievements of people living with disability reaching new heights of inclusion, opportunity and pathways to a fulfilling career.
Thanks to generous donors from previous appeals, specialist ceramic and art teachers inspired over 114 artists to participate in this year’s South Australian Living Artists (SALA) exhibition. Imagined by artists with disability, ‘Creating Rainbows’ celebrated the diversity and the unique stories of clients from Bedford’s Learning & Experiences Hubs (previously known as Day Options). The exhibition galleries located across the state, displayed over 200 pieces of artistic media. An online auction facilitated sales and income for each artist – an exciting first for Bedford’s SALA this year. Feedback from guests who visited each gallery was overwhelmingly positive!
Bedford provides initiatives to build social skills, indepedence, confidence and self esteem through our Learning & Experiences Hubs. Over the past 12 months, Bedford has welcomed more than 400 clients across 7 locations at Panorama, Torrensville, Wallaroo, Kadina, Port Pirie, Port Lincoln and Mount Gambier – participants engage in programs that foster essential skills, encourage social connections, build independence, and promote a healthy, active lifestyle. These transformative sessions however, are not fully funded by the government.
Bedford bears the costs of hiring specialist art and dance teachers, securing adaptive or specialised tools and equipment, examples include pottery wheels, cricut machines, photographic equipment, just to name a few and are all part of creating enriching experiences and pathways for all our participants.
We invite you to give a gift – donate today – and share in our commitment to support people living with disability, to live the life they choose – after all ‘tis the season for gifting.
Thank you for Giving a Gift
Heartfelt thanks to all our supporters!
Your donation will gift joy, inclusion and connection for South Australians living with disability this Christmas, thank you.
