FUNDING
As a small, not-for-profit organisation, we rely on the goodwill and generosity of businesses, charities and individuals in our community to enable us to organise and run our monthly Saturday Club and our Summer Play Scheme and Activity Week.
We also seek support to develop our sensory therapy provision as part of our Lifeskills Learning Centre.
For more information about the work your generosity supports, please contact us via our email address: office@aspirelifeskills.co.uk
'Pupils have access to a wide range of activities such as horse riding, golf, sewing & rock climbing' (Ofsted 2022)
Donations Received
We should like to say a ‘MASSIVE THANK YOU’ to the following organisations for their support:
Miracles To Believe In – the Leicestershire charity for children and teenagers with Autism, who sponsor our monthly Saturday Club.
Loughborough University
£480 donation was received, to allow children and young people from the monthly Saturday Club to access sessions at The Climbing Station in Loughborough.
Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation
A grant for £1.997.00 was approved from the Hanwill Fund, to support the children and young people attending the monthly Saturday Club to access leisure and recreational activities in their local community.
Shepshed Lions Club
£500 donation towards the Summer Play Scheme and Activity Week was kindly received.
This charitable organisation generously sent us a £500 donation towards the cost of sensory equipment for our Sensory Den Project.
Leicestershire County Council's YOUR SHIRE Community Grant has awarded us £2,500 towards the costs of our Summer Play Scheme and Activity Week in 2016.
In 2017 they awarded us £1,957 towards the cost of a therapy swing and £1,000 towards the costs of our Summer Play Scheme and Activity week.
We are already seeing the benefits of the therapy swing for the young people who access our Wednesday after school club and our Learning Centre; and LCC's generosity is very much appreciated.
The Henry Smith Charity sent us an amazing donation of £7,450 which we have used to equip our sensory facility at our new Lifeskills Learning Centre.
Marathon Man
Justin Wand raised an amazing £880 for us through his Edinburgh marathon fundraising efforts. He completed his first ever marathon in 3 hours 58 minutes - a fantastic achievement!
We are going to put his funds to good use to create some wonderful signage for our new Lifeskills Learning Centre
Making a Donation:
If you would like to support the work of ASPIRE: Lifeskills, please contact us directly by calling on;
Tel: 01509 269441 or 07854 918575
or by emailing us at;
You can also make a donation directly to us by clicking on the link below to our Local giving page.
If you are shopping online, you can enable us to receive donations from a large range of retailers by accessing your online retailer via www.easyfundraising.org.uk/aspirelifeskills. At NO cost to you, the retailer will donate a percentage of your shop to our cause.
Cycling for Autism
Come and join the fun!
Saturday 4th February 2017 - 3pm - 7pm at our Learning Centre (Town Hall Chambers, Town Hall Passage, Market Place, Loughborough).
Over 3 hours we aim to cycle from Loughborough to Whitby (150 miles) with a team of 5 staff and 5 young people with autism taking turns on the bikes.
Each participant will be seeking sponsorship from friends and family prior to the event.
During the day we shall be holding an auction and raffle of a whole range of amazing prizes generously donated to us by local organisations.
This event is being project managed by a 15 year old young man whom we have supported over the past year; and is to help raise valuable funds to support the young people who access our learning centre for After School and Holiday Clubs, and a range of other activities.
Fit 4 Less in Loughborough are kindly lending us 5 spin bikes for our event.
If you would like to make a donation now to support our event, please click on the link below to our localgiving page, and follow the instructions given there.
Thank you all for your support!