Theresa Mcilkenny recently became a director at Norton hall after years benefiting from the services it provides for her and her son. Here she shares her thoughts on why community run places have particular strengths…
- Becoming a director seemed like a natural progression, it allows us to help them understand what users expect from Norton Hall
- You can only be as happy as you children, these place allows me to go out and what I want to do, that makes me happy.
- The staff here are very committed to the children, to their activities to their education, it feels like a very family atmosphere. If ever you’ve got anything you want to talk about they don’t dismiss it out of hand.
- I didn’t want to live on benefits, wanted to be in work. I had misgivings about leaving my son anywhere, but they made me feel very comfortable. In the end Richard was learning so much by being here he sometimes didn’t want to come home.
- People don’t understand that places like Norton Hall can be life changing. It was life – changing for me. It allowed me to make things better in my life.
