Princess Anne to visit Shropshire
The Princess Royal visits two Shropshire success stories on Monday. The Princess Royal visits two Shropshire success stories on Monday. Bradbury House, at Oswestry, and The Rylands, at Shifnal, are Development Trust bungalow developments which help people with learning disabilities to live as tenants in their own home. They are owned by Shropshire Council and leased to and managed by First Choice Housing Association. Support is provided by care providers - Bethphage at Bradbury and Creative Support at Rylands. And it is these successful ventures which Princess Anne will visit at the beginning and end of her Shropshire day. She announced funding for both projects two years ago.
The Princess Royal visits two Shropshire success stories on Monday.
Bradbury House, at Oswestry, and The Rylands, at Shifnal, are Development Trust bungalow developments which help people with learning disabilities to live as tenants in their own home. They are owned by Shropshire Council and leased to and managed by First Choice Housing Association.
Support is provided by care providers - Bethphage at Bradbury and Creative Support at Rylands.
And it is these successful ventures which Princess Anne will visit at the beginning and end of her Shropshire day.
She announced funding for both projects two years ago.
Her Royal Highness and Development Trust chairman Christopher Sporborg launched the funding programme at a Buckingham Palace celebration for the trust's 20th anniversary.
And they will meet again on Monday when the Princess flies in by helicopter for the start of a busy royal day. She will tour Bradbury House, meeting carers and tenants including Joel Didsbury, Beverley Phillips, Rebecca Keir and members of their families.
After middle-of-the day engagements in Shrewsbury - at Morris Lubricants and the Caterpillar plant - Princess Anne flies on to Shifnal for a similar, 20- minute visit.
The special accommodation has proved to be hugely successful, increasing independence for vulnerable people. And the trust has agreed to fund another bungalow in the Shrewsbury area with work starting in the new year.
At Morris Lubricants, six-year-old Shrewsbury girl Laura Cox, who has spent long spells in hospital bec-ause of a rare blood condition, will present a bouquet to the princess. Her father Paul works for the firm.
The fathers of 10-year-old Abbigayle McLeod and Christopher Hillman, 11, also work at Caterpillar, which has planned a whirlwind tour of its major plant for the princess.
The children will present her with a Caterpillar truck model and basket of toys for the baby expected by the princess's son Peter and his wife Autumn in December.
By Royal Correspondent Shirley Tart
