AN ARTS and disability charity left on the brink of closure after being forced to leave its base has been rehomed.

InnerSense has been rescued after having to vacate their previous home in Ravenswood Village in Crowthorne in August 2016, after Bracknell Forest Council offered them a new venue.

The charity provides a termly programme of immersive, multisensory theatre workshops for people with profound learning disabilities and complex needs with 100 people with disabilities attending their workshops on a weekly basis.

The charity was unable to run workshops during the autumn while the search for a new venue continued but thankfully in December 2016, shortly before Christmas, Bracknell Forest Council offered InnerSense use of one of their empty buildings on an interim basis, the former Heathlands Day Centre in Wildridings.

InnerSense received the keys to their new venue at the start of January and have been working flat out to get the space ready to start a spring term at the end of February.

Victoria Holloway, operations manager, said: "We are extremely grateful to Bracknell Forest Council for giving us this lifeline in offering us Heathlands. The space in the building is ideal for us – a big room to adapt into our new performance space, accessible facilities, and plenty of storage rooms for our vast amount of resources and instruments. We have been working extremely hard over the last few weeks to get the venue ready for work-shopping but I am pleased to say we are nearly there.

"We are eager to get up and running again as soon as possible for our participants, as for many we are the only activity they willingly attend. Our spring term will start at the end of February and there are only a few places still available so sign up soon!"

More information about InnerSense’s sessions can be found on their website www.innersense.org.uk