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Through our Instagram Gallery you’ll find inspiring stories and a growing collection of beautifully created crickets bats. The bats have been refurbished and prepared by Will and his team from Yorke Peninsula Leisure Options SA, Woodbine Inc VIC and Will in NSW. The bats have been created and hand-painted by over 700 Australian and international celebrities, artists, muscicians, sportspeople, farmers, school children, politicians and community members.
We are deeply honoured and grateful to the amazing people who have given so freely of their time and their talent. This Gallery represents a unique collection of cricket bats that is available for sale.
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Our family have started visiting Will at his new home.
It’s been two months of extreme anxiety with everything in his life changing. A small community that knew him to no one knowing him as he walks along the road to the shops. Waving and looking for familiarity.
A new home new room new people. A new way of living. No family no hugs and none of the little things that offer peace and stability to the day.
It is the reason why so many families choose not to let go. The safety and certainty of the known. The fear of what might happen and sadness of our children not truly being seen. We fear so much because we have good reason to fear. Society is not always kind or understanding. Small communities do not always offer good choices.
However, when we choose to let go we are allowing something to shift. We are offering growth and opportunity and what that looks like we don’t truly ever know but it could be surprising or excruciating and sometimes, amazing.
In letting go we offer space for people to learn and grow and sometimes it’s great and it works the way we hope, and there are times it’s hard and we realize our fears.
Wills new home and support team fit into the amazing.
We are completely in awe of the care and kindness of his new family of carers. We finally feel we can sit back and let Will move into his new life knowing so many people have his back, they are walking shoulder to shoulder with him and are leading him towards his best life.
The greatest gift we can give our children is to let them be, to let them experience this world and then, the gift we can give to ourselves is to let them teach us and show us the way to an authentic life.
Thank you
Forsight, @flagstaff_group , @greenacres.disability.services @pkcricket1912 and @kiamagolfclub
One of the most amazing and special experiences in our time as a Charity was meeting the Governor General of Australia and Mrs Hurley and for them to accept our invitation to become our Patrons.
So as part of closing the Charity we met with them both at Government House in Canberra last week and talked through our work, exchanged gifts, explained our reasons and then, we sang. It’s not unusual for Mrs Hurley to sing as she has a beautiful voice but to have a private concert and for us all to sing together was an end to an extraordinary time for us.
Thank you to the Robertson Men’s Shed for the bat by Graham gifted to @gg_australia
We have made the decision to close our Charity, Where There’s a Will or better known as Willo.
To the 850 artists who believed in us, our 12 communities, our Patrons, Ben and our supporters - we have experienced the most extraordinary moments our family, Will and I, could have ever imagined. Thank you.
This decision has not come without a great deal of heartache and sadness, but we feel an overwhelming need to stop for now, and just focus on Wills life.
This work allowed us to travel over 40,000 kms together across Australia sharing moments, building bridges and having conversations that strengthened our resolve and gave us hope of a more inclusive country for all those who are deemed different.
For Will, my mum and I, it was a precious time of being together and we had an incredible adventure.
What I always knew and hoped people would see and experience, is that Will is the teacher to us all. To be yourself in a world that constantly wants us to be more and wants us to fit in, is brave.
These old cricket bats and Wills determined heart and deep desire to be seen have inspired, influenced, educated and created change beyond what many educated and abled people can achieve.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our Charity, who saw Will.
We will be closing our website over the next few weeks and we will keep our Instagram and Facebook open as a legacy.
We will transfer any stories from our website that represent the work of the charity.
Thank you.
Happy birthday beautiful Will
This is my wish for you:
“Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life”.
#ralphwaldoemerson
Thank you everyone for your care and interest in Wills big move away from home.
It’s been tough and yet we’ve had extraordinary moments of coming together and care.
Many moments of extreme anxiety as you can imagine, when everything you know has changed. Everything that was familiar is now unfamiliar. Routine, people and home, is all new.
It’s taken an immense level of support and care from everyone involved with Will to keep him safe and to guide him through this change. To show him we have his back and for him to feel .. it will be ok.
And that’s what matters.
It takes a village 💕 and our children and friends who live with any level of challenge need their community to lean in and see them and offer pathways to include and build authentic relationships.
You will be the one that benefits.
@whatability @whatabilityfoundation @keeganhipgrave
Where There’s A Will Ltd
ABN 14 634 182 497
Registered Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR)
44 May Street
Robertson NSW 2578
P: +61 2 427 110 968
E: hello@wheretheresawill.org.au
