Stockport-based charity Supportability is on the lookout for budding historians to help with their 'Celebrating Supportability at 70' project. 

The project, which was awarded a £93,696 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund this year, aims to document and share the charity's rich 70-year history. 

Volunteers will have the opportunity to help organise heritage inspired events, archive 70 years' worth of documents and photographs, conduct oral history interviews and plan a historical exhibition. 

Supportability has supported children and adults with a range of learning and physical disabilities since 1953, and its project aims to shed light on the experiences of disabled people and their families over the past 70 years, uncovering stories which have never been fully documented or researched before.  

Supportability would also like to speak with people who have a connection to the charity - including under its previous name Stockport CP Society - and those who have visited its base at Granville House in Heaton Moor over the last 70 years. 

Project manager Elli Tozer said: "Celebrating Supportability at 70 is meaningful to the people we support and informative for our community.  

"The project is an exciting opportunity to understand our history so that we may celebrate it and then preserve it.  

"We'd love to hear from anyone with a Supportability story – no amount of detail is too small."  

If you would like to find out more about the volunteer opportunity, contact [email protected].   

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