Why support Acorn Village?
Your support over the years has made a lasting impact — and it continues to transform lives every single day.
Why your support matters
Supporting Acorn Village matters because your contribution directly impacts the lives of adults with learning disabilities, helping them lead more independent and dignified lives. Our Acorn Village history helps to demonstrate how your support has helped over the years and continues to make such a difference today.
Here's why your support is so important:
🌱 Empowering Individuals
Acorn Village provides essential care, housing, and support that empowers residents to live with greater independence and self-confidence. Your support helps fund:
- Daily living assistance
- Education and skill-building programmes
- Creative and therapeutic activities
🏡 Creating a True Community
Acorn Village fosters a warm, family-like environment where everyone is treated with respect and love. Your support helps maintain:
- Safe and nurturing housing
- Community celebrations
- Opportunities for friendship and social engagement
🎨 Encouraging Creativity and Joy
Through art, music, gardening, and more, residents are encouraged to express themselves and build confidence. Donations can help to fund things like materials, instructors, and workshops that make these moments possible.
💙 Because “Life is for Living”
That’s Acorn Village’s motto — and your support makes it real. Every pound raised helps create more opportunities for joy, connection, and growth.
We invite you to visit Acorn Village to see directly how your generous donations are used to improve the lives of adults with learning disabilities.
Our promise to you
As a Charity we promise we will:
- Adhere to the Code of Fundraising Practice
- Comply with the law as it applies to charities and fundraising
Tell the truth and not exaggerate.
- Do what we say we are going to do with donations we receive.
- Be clear about who we are and what we do.
- Give a clear explanation of how you can make a gift and change a regular donation.
- We do not pay third parties to fundraise on our behalf.
- Explain our fundraising costs and show how they are in the best interests of our cause if challenged.
- Ensure our complaints process is clear and easily accessible.
- Provide clear and evidence based reasons for our decisions on complaints.
- Respect your rights and privacy. Your data is safe with us. We take our obligations very seriously and we will never sell your data to third party organisations.
- Do not put undue pressure on you to make a gift. If you do not want to give or wish to cease giving, we will respect your decision.
- Where the law requires, we will gain your consent before we contact you to fundraise.
- If you tell us that you don’t want us to contact you in a particular way we will not do so.
- Treat donors and the public fairly, showing sensitivity and adapting our approach depending on your needs.
- Take care not to use any images or words that intentionally cause distress or anxiety.
- Take care not to cause nuisance or disruption to the public.
- We will be accountable and responsible
- Do all we can to ensure that our fundraisers & volunteers comply with all fundraising regulations and this promise.
- Provide easy ways for you to contact us .
- If you are unhappy with anything we’ve done you can contact to us to make us aware of a concern or a complaint via info@acornvillages.com
- If we make a mistake we will apologise and do everything to put things right. However, if we cannot resolve your complaint, we accept the authority of the Fundraising Regulator to make a final adjudication.
- Further details can be found on the charities commission website.
Jeremy's Story
"Having visited Acorn Village many times over the years, I’ve seen first-hand the warmth, creativity and community spirit that make it such a special place. The residents are supported to live full, meaningful lives, and it’s impossible not to be inspired by their joy and determination. With my family living nearby, Acorn has always felt close to home for me — it’s a remarkable community doing truly life-changing work. Acorn relies on the generosity of others to keep providing this vital support, so I’d encourage everyone to get involved, donate, or visit to see for themselves what an incredible difference it makes." - TV Actor Jeremy Sheffield's Story