About Us
The Singapore Cheshire Home aims to provide a “home” for the severely disabled who do not have adequate care.
We strive to create a place where our beneficiaries are provided with care, rehabilitation and encouragement to lead a life to their fullest potential.
Our Home’s Objects
- To provide a home for the care of the severely disabled with no or limited means to be cared for by their families.
- To care, rehabilitate, encourage, and stimulate our beneficiaries to live as normal lives as possible in a home-like environment.
- To share the Home with others, create a sense of belonging and ownership by contributing to the functioning and development of the Home within their capabilities.
- To help our beneficiaries gain confidence and develop independence and interests with the ultimate aim of reintegration into the community.
Our Mission
Provide holistic care for the well-being of our beneficiaries.
Our Core Values
- Work as a family team to care for our beneficiaries.
- Respect each other’s strengths and differences.
- Serve our beneficiaries with dignity and respect.
Our History
The Home was started, in 1956, by the late Group Captain Lord Leonard Cheshire, V.C., O.M., D.S.O., D.F.C. at a derelict gun-site beside the sea at Telok Paku, Changi. This was the first Cheshire Home in the Far East region. The Singapore Cheshire Home is today the Asia Pacific headquarters to 9 such homes in the region.
On 23 December 1957, the first two residents were admitted and seven joined the Home the following year. Over the years, it expanded into a complex with a capacity for 76 residents. The Home was relocated to temporary premises at Changi Creek when the site at Telok Paku was acquired by the Government in 1976.
This is a “home” in the truest practicable sense, for the care, rehabilitation, encouragement, stimulation and happiness of our residents and clients, all of whom are seriously disabled adults of both sexes from various races and creeds, and to give them the chance to live as normal lives as possible.
In 1984, the residents moved to the current location at Serangoon Gardens. Situated at a quiet, tranquil corner of Serangoon Garden Way, the Home is an oasis of love and care, staffed with a team of nurses, nursing aides, social workers, volunteer and programme executives, therapists, therapy aides, cooks and drivers.
The Home is equipped with a heated hydrotherapy pool, a wide range of equipment for physiotherapy, computer training, handicrafts and recreational facilities like karaoke, and movies and a beautiful garden that enable small-scale hydroponics cultivation of vegetables. The same complex also houses the Day Care Centre.
Today the Singapore Cheshire Home runs a 90-person capacity Residential Home for people who suffer from muscular dystrophy/atrophy, spasticity, cerebral palsy, deformities, spinal/head injuries and various other debilitating conditions. The Day Care Centre cares for a daily average of 20 non-residential beneficiaries who suffer from similar conditions.
Our beneficiaries receive nursing care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, art and craft therapy, computer training as well as social and recreational activities. Through rehabilitation, we enable our beneficiaries to achieve maximum independence for happier lives.
The Home has a Residents’ Committee made up of seven residents who are elected by the residents. The Committee serves a term of two years. As representatives of all the residents, Committee members attend weekly meetings with staff to ensure residents’ views are heard. Their duties also include hosting visitors at the Home’s events.
Our Milestones
The Home celebrated its 60th Anniversary by planting a Time Capsule in the Sensory Garden, to be unearthed when the Home celebrates its 100th Anniversary in 2057
Official Opening of Extension of Day Care Centre by Mr Lim Kay Hua, Chairman of Council of Governors
The Home hosted the East Asia Pacific Regional Council 8th BGM
The Phase II Building was officially opened by Dr Aline Wong, Minister of State for Health. The Phase II extension is dedicated to the cherished and respected memory of the Founder, Group Captain Lord Leonard Cheshire who died on 31/7/1992
The Home moved to temporary premises in ex-NTUC Holiday Hostel Changi Creek
Official Opening by the Home’s first Patron, Air Chief Marshall the Earl of Bandon, Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Air Force
