A LOCHGELLY community based organisation has developed into a facility which is able to provide key assistance for every age group.
The Hyperclub is based on the Main Street, opposite St Serf's Church, and Cowdenbeath Rotary Club heard on Thursday how the range of help it offers to people has grown remarkably.
The charity works hard to ensure that those who face social exclusion, due to disability or health conditions, are supported in becoming confident individuals who can independently work to achieve higher goals.
Guest speaker was the Hyperclub's, Suzie Connolly, who explained that the facility developed from a situation which occurred 15 years ago when her then seven- year-old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD.
“This inspired me to try to find a way of making life a lot happier for her, and bit by bit the Hyperclub idea developed and has grown to provide all sorts of help for people of all ages and our base in Lochgelly is amazingly suitable for what we seek to offer,” she said.
Susie is a volunteer herself, and was accompanied on Thursday by three of her volunteer colleagues to tell their story to the Rotary Club.
The Hyperclub was first set up in Inverkeithing when Suzie was able to find a suitable building there, but as it grew in size with the number of people needing help increasing, she needed to find more suitable accommodation.
Her search saw the facility based in Dunfermline, then in a relatively short time that ceased to be available and their search ended in Lochgelly.
After a refit, their base was made up of two former neighbouring business properties, which now include an activity café, sensory rooms, training kitchen, disabled changing room and beauty training facility.
Susie added: “We have been running for 14 years and we now support adults and children with disabilities/difficulties and health issues, such as Autism, ADHD, ADD, Hyper-mobility, Tourettes, Down Syndrome and many more.
“We also support many elderly people, plus help and support hundreds of families and individuals on a weekly basis and in addition we now support the community with free food parcels, clothes and furniture that they may need.
“Things have developed way beyond what I had initially envisaged, but the support I have received from a whole host of people, and our team at the Hyperclub in Lochgelly is simply unbelieveable.
“I really cannot thank them enough, they have all made this dream I had happen.”
Activities at the Hyperclub include arts and crafts, cooking classes, adults' group activities, discos, young carers' support nights, educational learning, as well as beauty and relaxation treatments.
Getting the facility in Lochgelly ready to open saw a lot of work.
Susie said: “We needed a lot done to make our base ready and a massive thanks went to the joiner who has always stuck by us and made this all happen – Robert Smith from Cowdenbeath. He is the most amazing man on this earth.
"Also Mike Esson from Glenrothes, our electrician, who dropped everything to get it completed. Without these guys we couldn't have done it – I thank them from the bottom of my heart.
"One last thank-you has to go to all my volunteers who do an amazing job. They are wonderful people to have on board."
The charity has created both a water bed sensory room and a tactile sensory room at their new facility, with the latter costing a whopping £15,000.
A donation from the Wooden Spoon charity contributed to a large part of the sensory room.
The Hyperclub relies on charitable support to provide its amazing backing for so many people, and the Rotary Club members heard that the project's running expenses are around £1,500 a month.
Highly impressed with what they heard from Suzie and the Hyperclub volunteers, the club has pledged support for the project in the coming months.
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