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About Us
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Fairfield PHAB is a voluntary organisation, that aims to meet the objectives set by PHAB Ltd.
Our team has been together since 2006. Fairfield PHAB is open to young people both with and without disabilities who
are aged between the ages of 8 and 18. We welcome members from across the Liverpool area who believe they would like
to be part of Fairfield PHAB.
PHAB Ltd is a national charity that works in a practical
and active way to promote and encourage people with and without physical disability to come together on equal terms, to achieve
complete inclusion in the wider community. PHAB Ltd achieves this in a variety of ways including the organisation
of regional meetings and events, training programmes and holidays.
Several
of our PHAB Team have been involved with PHAB for over 15 years, we believe the life experiences of our team are important
factors in allowing the Fairfield PHAB to progress. We have a strong team who are fully committed in developing Fairfield
PHAB and help establish our club within the Liverpool community. In July 2008, we agreed a deal with L'Arche Liverpool
to use their premises as our new base and meeting place for Fairfield PHAB. We were previously located at St John's
Community Centre until December 2007.
The History of Fairfield PHAB
During the late 80's and early 90's and under the leadership of Alice McMurray, Fairfield PHAB enjoyed
a very successful era. During the mid 90's the Fairfield PHAB closed down. In 2005, whilst working at St John's
Community Centre, the former meeting place for Fairfield PHAB, ex-member Phil Peel was asked to re-establish PHAB within the
Kensington and Fairfield area of Liverpool, and in January 2006 the all new St John's PHAB opened it's doors
for the very first time, under the leadership of Phil Peel & Trish Roberts.
In
2007, it was announced that St John's Community Centre would be closing down, this provided a dilemma for the PHAB Team
and it was decided that PHAB would remain open, but would revert back to the original name of Fairfield PHAB. After
6 long months from December 2007 til June 2008, PHAB would not run any sessions and would basically cease to exist. Eventually
in July 2008, all the hard work had paid off, we found new premises and we managed to keep the same PHAB Team in place.
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