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SeeAbility is a registered charity that provides specialist high quality and personalised services to people with sight loss and multiple disabilities.

 SeeAbility’s Heather House in Tadley, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, has a reputation as a world leading specialist nursing care home, which offers a high quality nursing care service for people with CLN3, (Juvenile Batten disease) and other complex conditions.

Read more about the service here

This is a multi-disciplinary service led by registered nurses working in partnership with doctors, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other healthcare professionals. All those supported at Heather House can benefit from weekly physiotherapy and hydrotherapy sessions at The Penney Activity and Resource Centre. This onsite centre provides a range of opportunities including music therapy, arts and crafts, cookery, interactive technology and horticulture. The residential accommodation also has two guest suites for families.

Please contact Dawn Hawken, Registered Manager for more information about Heather House: 01189 817 772 – D.Hawken@seeability.org

Donate to the work of the BDFA

With your support we can help support families living with the devastating diagnosis of Batten disease

The BDFA receives NO funding from Government and are only able to carry out our work because of the strong commitment of our volunteers and fundraisers.

Thank you so much for your support

How your donation can help

£5 a month
provides a support and information
folder for a newly diagnosed family

£20 a month

helps to run our family support services

£50 a month
enables us to run training workshops
for professionals to educate them on
Batten disease