Linden Lodge School is a day and residential school in Wimbledon educating pupils who are visually impaired, including those who are multi-disabled visually impaired, deaf-blind and have more profound learning difficulties and complex health needs.

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Linden Lodge Charitable Trust is a registered charity formed to enhance the lives of pupils by funding extras such as music lessons and instruments, drama sessions, horse riding and residential trips. LLCT has also raised funds for larger projects including the wheelchair access adventure playground, wheelchair access mini-buses, the sensory garden, hydrotherapy pool, library and learning resources centre, family centre and two Innowalkers which help individuals who are unable to walk, or who require a lot of support to do so, experience the power of movement.

LLCT has also funded a variety of assistive technologies which can truly transform lives, open doors and remove countless barriers, helping all pupils to access communication and learning. 

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SPACe Appeal: Sports and Performing Arts Centre

We are delighted to have recently completed fundraising for our major appeal, the Sport and Performing Arts Centre (SPACe). This will deliver a more appropriate and accessible learning environment, vital for visually impaired, deaf and deafblind students through the creation of a multipurpose fully accessible acoustically treated space which includes an assembly hall, gym, fitness suite and music rooms.

The main assembly hall has been transformed with new acoustic treatments, flooring, sound and projection systems, lighting upgrades, accessible trampolines and anti-glare wall treatments. We are already seeing the difference this makes for students, who are engaging more deeply now that the sensory barriers of the old hall have been removed.

Work on the next phase to transform the music practice rooms and the small hall started over the Easter break and will be finalised shortly. The final phase will completely upgrade the Gym and Fitness Suite, which will complete the transformation of SPACe into a truly inclusive, multi-purpose environment that allows every student to play, learn and move without sensory distress or physical limitations.

We are hugely grateful to everyone who has donated and made this important project possible.