Escape Support Group

Escape Support Group (ESG) is a Somerset based charity that provides activities, days out, events and mini-breaks for children with disabilities and their families. Escape recognises the need for families to have opportunities to spend quality time doing fun things together – not just the child with the disability. Families often find themselves, through no fault of their own, excluded and mis-understood because of the additional needs of their child. ESG aims to redress that balance by empowering and enabling families, allowing them the opportunity to visit locations, experience events, and participate in activities which might otherwise be unavailable to them. The charity supports a wide spectrum of needs and currently helps more than 180 families, a figure they say is growing weekly. The endowment they received from us last year is helping them in their activities and with being able to plan ahead with confidence. Following a recent activity, one family member commented ‘This is a trip we would never have been able to consider but I can’t stop smiling when we are asked if we had a good time. We had the most amazing day!