Cheshire Home at Lucknow started in 1980 in an evacuee property near the Railway Station, Lucknow, India, in just two rooms. Today, the Home is located on a one-acre plot surrounded by greenery in a pollution-free environment, with accommodation for over 40 residents.
The Home provides relief to many thousands through medical camps, physiotherapy, vocational training services and more.
Internationally Leonard Cheshire Disability has over 255 partners globally and is part of a Global Alliance of non-governmental organisations in 52 countries. It works through its six regional offices based in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean. The core areas of our work include:
Cheshire Homes Lucknow is visited by various persons on regular basis. The visitors are well received and conducted in a dignified manner as per the ethos of the Cheshire Homes Lucknow. At the same time the visitors are requested not to disrupt the routine and working of the Home and its Residents. The staff of Cheshire Home Lucknow has been advised to observe the following guidelines:
| Ser No | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | 06.00 am | Bed Tea |
| (b) | 7.00 to 08.30 am | Bath and change |
| (c) | 08.30 to 9.30 am | Breakfast |
| (d) | 9.30 to 11.30 am | Physiotherapy & Yoga |
| (e) | 11.30 am to 12.30 pm | Games & Entertainment |
| (f) | 12.30 to 13.30 pm | Lunch |
| (g) | 13.30 to 16.00 pm | Rest |
| (h) | 16.00 to 16.30 pm | Tea |
| (i) | 16.30 to 19.00 pm | Own Time/ TV |
| (j) | 19.00 to 20.00 pm | Dinner |
| (k) | 10 O’ Clock | Lights out |
Leonard Cheshire Disability organization was founded by the late Group Captain Lord Leonard Cheshire of Woodhall in 1948. At the beginning of that year he was living alone in an isolated mansion in Hampshire winding up a community project for ex servicemen and women which he had started at the end of the war. Discovering that one of the former members of the community was terminally ill and had nowhere to go, he offered to care for him in his own home. To his surprise, he found others in need coming to him for help and so started what was to become a worldwide organization developing services for disabled people.
The second Cheshire Home was opened a couple of years later in Cornwall, and then the third in Kent. Each of these projects followed the same pattern: inspired and encouraged by Leonard Cheshire himself, local communities came forward asking for help in setting up a service for them. By 1955 there were not only five services in the UK, but the first overseas project had also been started at Mumbai in India.
The 1960s was a decade of rapid expansion. By 1970 there were 50 services in the UK, five in India and a Leonard Cheshire project of some sort in 21 other countries across the globe. The organization began to diversify the nature of the care it offered, and the early 1970s saw it trialing a care in the community project which became the Care at Home Service.
Today, Leonard Cheshire Disability creates opportunities with more than 21,000 disabled people and their carers through over 150 services in the UK. Internationally, services continue to grow with over 250 services in 55 countries, including day care, skills training and rehabilitation, independent living and residential care.
