For nearly eleven years the staff, parents and friends of St Christopher's School, Wrexham have dreamt of building their own hydrotherapy pool, for use by pupils with all sorts of severe disabilities.

Thanks to The Morgan Foundation that dream has now come true, as Steve Morgan opened the new pool last week. Built by Redrow at a cost of over £250,000, and with many materials provided at cost or for free from generous local companies, the pool will change the lives of the children at St Christopher's.

Speaking at the opening, Steve Morgan said: 'I'm so proud of everyone who has been involved in this project, so proud of my colleagues at Redrow and proud of all the other people who have been part of making this dream come true. To see the children's happy smiling faces in the pool today was just fantastic.'

Pictured, left to right: Ian Lucas MP, Sophie Lay, Lesley Griffiths, Steve Morgan and headteacher Maxine Pittaway.

For nearly eleven years the staff, parents and friends of St Christopher's School, Wrexham have dreamt of building their own hydrotherapy pool, for use by pupils with all sorts of severe disabilities.

Thanks to The Morgan Foundation that dream has now come true, as Steve Morgan opened the new pool last week. Built by Redrow at a cost of over £250,000, and with many materials provided at cost or for free from generous local companies, the pool will change the lives of the children at St Christopher's.

Speaking at the opening, Steve Morgan said: 'I'm so proud of everyone who has been involved in this project, so proud of my colleagues at Redrow and proud of all the other people who have been part of making this dream come true. To see the children's happy smiling faces in the pool today was just fantastic.'

Pictured, left to right: Ian Lucas MP, Sophie Lay, Lesley Griffiths, Steve Morgan and headteacher Maxine Pittaway.

Jean Taylor, founder of our supported charity, Families Fighting for Justice, and winner of last year's Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards Against All Odds, has launched her book O.L.L.Y: A Journey. Written afterher son and daughter were brutally killed, O.L.L.Y helps children cope with the grief of losing a loved one. The O.L.L.Y group (Our Lost Love Years) supports children who have lost a loved one through murder or manslaughter.

Copies of the book, which feature Olly the Penguin and Molly the Polarbear, are on sale at Waterstones, Liverpool One.

Congratulations to ACSIL (Amputee and Carers support in Liverpool), one of our supported charities, for winnning the Night of Honour Award at the Black E for the Best Community Organisation in Merseyside and also for gaining the Brian Labone Cup for services to the community. Great news from a great charity!

Congratulations to ACSIL (Amputee and Carers support in Liverpool), one of our supported charities, for winnning the Night of Honour Award at the Black E for the Best Community Organisation in Merseyside and also for gaining the Brian Labone Cup for services to the community. Great news from a great charity!

One of The Morgan Foundation's supported charities, the Dee-Sign Choir recently travelled to Jersey to take part in the Eisteddfod for Sign Language Choirs 2011. All the children, parents and carers thoroughly enjoyed the weather in Jersey and visits to Aqua Splash, Crazy Golf and the beautiful coastline. They finished their trip by attending the church service on Remembrance Sunday. The junior group won silver and the adult group proudly carried home gold.

Well done all!

The winners of the fifth Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards have been announced. For full details and photographs of the glittering awards ceremony at Carden Park Hotel please click here to visit the Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards website.

The winners of the fifth Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards have been announced. For full details and photographs of the glittering awards ceremony at Carden Park Hotel please click here to visit the Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards website.

A one-off grant of £5,000 was made to UK North Blind Sailing Association in December 2010 to assist with the costs of refurbishing the Milne class yacht, Mermaid.

UK North Blind Sailing is based in Wallasey and the main catchment area to recruit blind participants and volunteers is Merseyside, Wirral and North Wales. There are some 60 members aged between 18 and 75 from across the region, plus 9 core volunteer, some of whom are sighted, qualified sailing instructors.

The group’s aims are to provide sail training for blind people, to allow them to participate in local, national and international sailing events. Last year the organisation facilitated keel boat training weekends for 45 blind and partially sighted people on a number of different residential stays at the Welsh National Watersports Centre at Plas Menai and organised their first RYA Dinghy Sailing course at West Kirby for ten visually impaired peopled. Volunteers provided transport to and from events, sighted crews and instructors on the water and guides inside and outside the sailing centres.

The sailing activities offer opportunities for social inclusion for blind and partially sighted members who, because of their disability, are frequently isolated from mainstream society through poverty, low educational achievement, low self-esteem, lack of employment opportunities, the inability to use any form of transport unaided, the inability to read facial expression and body language during social interaction, all coupled with the general public’s lack of awareness concerning the needs of visually impaired people.

The refurbishment was completed by a team of volunteers, both sighted and visually impaired and Mermaid made the second deadline for launching on 27th July and is now moored in The River Mersey off Rock Ferry. The Royal Mersey Yacht Club had set this date as “lift out day" for the Milne class yachts travelling to North Wales to take part in the Menai Straits Regatta so Mermaid was able to take advantage of this facility and be craned into the river.

A one-off grant of £5,000 was made to UK North Blind Sailing Association in December 2010 to assist with the costs of refurbishing the Milne class yacht, Mermaid.

UK North Blind Sailing is based in Wallasey and the main catchment area to recruit blind participants and volunteers is Merseyside, Wirral and North Wales. There are some 60 members aged between 18 and 75 from across the region, plus 9 core volunteer, some of whom are sighted, qualified sailing instructors.

The group’s aims are to provide sail training for blind people, to allow them to participate in local, national and international sailing events. Last year the organisation facilitated keel boat training weekends for 45 blind and partially sighted people on a number of different residential stays at the Welsh National Watersports Centre at Plas Menai and organised their first RYA Dinghy Sailing course at West Kirby for ten visually impaired peopled. Volunteers provided transport to and from events, sighted crews and instructors on the water and guides inside and outside the sailing centres.

The sailing activities offer opportunities for social inclusion for blind and partially sighted members who, because of their disability, are frequently isolated from mainstream society through poverty, low educational achievement, low self-esteem, lack of employment opportunities, the inability to use any form of transport unaided, the inability to read facial expression and body language during social interaction, all coupled with the general public’s lack of awareness concerning the needs of visually impaired people.

The refurbishment was completed by a team of volunteers, both sighted and visually impaired and Mermaid made the second deadline for launching on 27th July and is now moored in The River Mersey off Rock Ferry. The Royal Mersey Yacht Club had set this date as “lift out day" for the Milne class yachts travelling to North Wales to take part in the Menai Straits Regatta so Mermaid was able to take advantage of this facility and be craned into the river.