Ryder-Cheshire Foundation (Waikato) is a charitable trust which operates seven wheel-chair friendly, accessible homes, purpose-built for the needs of people living with physical or functional disabilities. We enable these awesome people to live as independently as possible. Our objectives are: • To promote, advance, encourage and develop by any means whatsoever, the provision of residential accommodation or help for the care and general wellbeing of men and women regardless of race or creed who are chronically physically handicapped or who as a result of some physical handicap are in need of encouragement and assistance or who are disabled, ill or in necessitous circumstances. • To provide a home or homes with the necessary facilities for the care of chronic and permanently disabled people and their care-givers irrespective of race or creed which shall be; • A place of shelter physically and a place of encouragement spiritually; • A place in which residents and their specialist caregivers can acquire a sense of belonging and community; • A place to share with others and from which to help others in similar circumstances; • A place in which to gain confidence and develop independence and interests; • A place of hopeful endeavour and active interest • To join with, affiliate to or act in liaison or co-operate with any other body, company, society, person, or government department, in the furtherance of any of the foregoing objects.