In 2024 Love4Life told us: “over the last year, incredible support from The Rix-Thompson Rothenberg Foundation has helped us transform inclusion for people with learning disabilities and autism. Through Love4Life, members make friends, find love and increase their self-belief and independence through social activities, chaperoned dates, workshops and one-to-one support. Thank you for your commitment which is creating lasting change. With your assistance, we’ve supported 261 members and we’re delighted to update you on our recent achievements and share news of how your support is helping us grow our network so more members can gain confidence, connections and skills.

In 2024, Ydance told us our grant had “helped us to set up 2 new inclusive dance groups”.

As a result “12 young people regularly attended building health, wellbeing, skills and confidence and 5 dance tutors gained inclusive training and experience.

In 2023 the Wiltshire Live Music Centre told us our support “has been crucial in keeping the Club viable. With your support, we have been able to not only help Zone Club achieve great things this year, allowing it to continue offering this specific group of participants fulfilling experiences centred around music, but also plan for its future.”

In 2023, Get2Gether told us our grant had been used to “ensure that increases in the cost of living did not further the social isolation and loneliness experienced by adults with (learning) disabilities. The funding you have provided allowed us to keep our social events and opportunities accessible to all of our members. Your grant ensured that our members did not lose connection to the support of the get2gether community at a time that they most needed it.”

In 2022, Drunken Chorus told us our grant had “provided us with the resources and capacity to be flexible, resilient and responsive during the easing of restrictions. We were able to tweak and redesign elements of our programmes to work better for our participants in an uncertain and constantly evolving situation. We are very pleased to be able to say that we are now in a stable and robust position, and have since secured a number of multi-year grants to ensure our work can continue into the future. Without project funding from Rix-Thompson Rothenberg this would not have been possible.”

The Sussex Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus told us our grant in 2021 had enabled them to set up and run their hybrid club post-covid, and for “60 people with complex disabilties to engage regularly with Bourne Free and feel less isolated, make and sustain new friendships, to feel more confident and be better informed.” They also told us that “The support from the RTR Foundation has been invaluable to us and has helped us to secure further funding to keep this much needed club going.”

Carousel told us that our grants in 2018 & 2021 “supported Creative Minds regional hubs of learning disability arts organisations, LD artists and other cultural organisations. The hubs allowed us to talk about barriers to learning disability arts in the mainstream and to work as a community to share work, ideas and find solutions.” And “helped us establish Carousel TV, a series broadcast on Latest TV featuring a range of creative content made by and for learning disabled people. Carousel TV has become an annual fixture and we’re developing the show for Youtube and more audience participation.”