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Another blow for disabled charity

by isleofman.com 5th November 2009

Two disabled people are to lose their homes, as it's sell or bust for an established Island charity.

Three months after making eight care workers redundant, the Manx Foundation for the Physically Disabled is to sell two properties to ensure its own survival.

Charity chiefs say without the money from the sale of the houses, it would run out of funding by next June, leaving more than 100 disabled people without essential social care services and 17 staff without jobs.

Foundation chairman David Cooke says it has no option but to sell the properties in Farmhill in Douglas, currently occupied by two tenants with disabilities, or it will close down next summer:

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Posted by isleofman.com
Thursday 5th, November 2009 10:00pm.

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