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About Us
The Sunnybank Trust supports adults with learning disabilities in Surrey to live without prejudice and have confidence, opportunities and control over their own lives.
We celebrate our differences and believe that everyone in our community should be included, respected and treated as equal.
What we do
Advocacy
Clubs & Activities
Futures 18 - 30+ Programme
Understand Us Consultancy
Our Vision
Communities that hear, understand and include people with learning disabilities
Our Mission
To uplift people with learning disabilities to live fantastic lives
Our Values
Belonging
Making sure people are included and a meaningful part of the community
Fair chances
Having the same choices and opportunities as everyone else
Being heard
Being able to have an equal voice
Growing together
Working in partnership to support each other to grow
Our Purpose
The Sunnybank Trust was founded over 35 years ago by Tom Rhind-Tutt MBE, whose lived experience of being neurodivergent inspired a community movement that advocated for the ex-residents of the local, large, long stay hospitals, many of whom had learning disabilities.
Surrey still has one of the largest concentrations of people with learning disabilities, and a care system that in addition to being weakened by the current challenges, remains institutionalised in attitude and approach.
Today, The Sunnybank Trust thinks differently about having a learning disabilities. We look at what people can do, not what they can’t. We have evolved into a charity whose direction is determined by people living with learning disabilities. We are led by people with lived experience in the design and delivery of our services.
Donate to
The Sunnybank Trust
Your support can help transform the lives of
people with learning disabilities.
