grant application approved!

We’ve had some great news for our house project!

Our application for DFG (Disabled Facilities Grant) funding has been approved by the panel!

It comes with slightly mixed emotions, as the feedback was that the panel deemed it quite clear that Twinkle’s needs require us to make significant changes to our house, which will most likely take us over the maximum grant limit. Of course we know Twinkle has additional needs and has impaired mobility, but living day to day you sort of forget!  Our life with Twinkle is just ‘our normal’ and it does still take me aback on the occasions when, without much question, our little girl is slotted neatly into a ‘disabled’ category by others.

IMG_2754However this is very good news for us! Needing so much intervention means that the OT & surveyor are now in a position agree the proposals with us without having to return to panel. This, along with partial self funding, gives us more flexibility within the design and planning and able to pursue our preference for ground floor living for Twinkle, with full (and hopefully independent!) access throughout.

So it’s out with our fat pens and tracing paper to look at our options for getting the best from our house (for Twinkle and the whole family!)….!