Situated in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, this purpose built school for children with profound motor disorders and associated learning disorders, was built entirely with funds provided by the Philip Green Memorial Trust. This facility provides help using methods and techniques developed by Dr Peto of Hungary. When the Philip Green Memorial Trust was first introduced to PACE in 1994, it was operating out of a house and a portakabin in a farmyard, some half a mile apart. The Trust raised over £500,000 to build a school which was designed specifically for the children who used it.
In 1997, the new premises were opened and immediately proved to be a major success with a waiting list operating from day one. In 2003, the Trust made further funds available to build an extension to the school so that they could help even more children.
Quote from Heather Last, Director of PACE
“I remember so clearly the first time I met Cyril Paskin in 1994 and he trudged through the mud to see a somewhat shabby portakabin and a handful of staff and children working together. That day was a cornerstone in the development of PACE as somehow Cyril had both the vision to see what could be done and the determination to carry it through and without his support and all the hard work of the friends and supporters of the Philip Green Memorial Trust, none of this would have been possible.”
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