Sophia Malthus speaks about the importance of The Laura Fergusson Trust on young disabled people

The Laura Fergusson Trust was set up in the 1960s to give young disabled adults independence and stop them being put into rest homes and psychiatric institutions because there was nowhere else for them to go. Young people like Sophia Malthus who was left paralysed from her shoulders down after falling from a horse in 2016 at the age of 19. She describes her nine months there as invaluable, with physios, occupational therapists, doctors and accessible facilities to help her integrate back into the community.