A charity branch serving Braintree and Witham is to close.

Thanks - Dawn Simmons and Georgina Rhymes, or Parc, with the cheque for £18,000 the group got from Braintree and Witham Scope. Picture: ADRIAN RUSHTON

But thousands of pounds of remaining funds held by the Braintree and Witham branch of Scope, which will be shut down, will be given to a local charity for disabled children.

Margaret Dearden, chair of Braintree and Witham Scope, said the branch had run its course as many of the services it provided during the last 50 years are now offered by new professional charitable bodies and the group are pleased to be able to give £18,000 to the Parc project, created by Essex parents with disabled children.

Parc has been raising funds for seven years in order to build a play and resource centre for disabled children in Great Notley, which could serve up to 15,000 families.

Published Friday January 2, 2004

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