Archive - Sep 2011

Scope, funded by the Department for Education, is producing information, guidance and training materials to help all those who support children and families where a child or young person has cerebral palsy.

Barking's very own fashion show in aid of Scope charity shops' recent drive for donations during London Fashion Week.

All of the outfits came from the local Scope shop and the runway is in the Vicarage Field Shopping Centre. A big thank you to fashion designer Harsharan Landa and her team for making this happen. What do you think of the outfits?

To mark the 100th episode of award-winning children's TV series Something Special, CBeebies have created a fantastic new website embracing the same inclusive approach as the Something Special TV programme.

Scope and leading independent think tank Demos have teamed up to produce their Coping with the Cuts report that looks at the impact local cuts are having on the lives of disabled people and their families living in England and Wales.

To celebrate Remember a Charity Week and all the generous gifts we’ve been left by supporters in their wills - we trawled through our archives to find the 10 most weird and wonderful legacies we’ve received over the years.

Among the most memorable were a swamp (apparently some people have those knocking around), a stretch of land in the Bahamas and the royalties from a 1950s radio show.

After trawling though our archives, here are Scope’s top 10 most memorable legacy gifts…

10. The grand piano

A Londoner donated a baby grand piano in their will. It was later valued at £10,000. The only problem was trying to remove it from the house’s basement.

9. The paintings

An art lover left Scope a number of paintings by popular impressionists Georges Rouault and Chaim Soutine in their will. The proceeds of their sale, on the individual’s wishes, were to be split evenly between 24 charities including Scope, the British Red Cross and Help the Aged.