Spring has sprung, summer is just around the corner, and we are ready to launch into our busy season here at Barren Heights! Check out all the good stuff going on around our Retreat and Community Centers in our 2024 Spring Newsletter. The Lodge is almost ready, we have guest AND volunteer openings …
Help Us Reach Our Goal! Become a Booster This Spring Campaign!
Our 2024 Spring Campaign goal is to gain 20 new monthly donors of $20 or more! Can you help us reach our goal? If you’re an active fan, advocate, supporter and promoter of something or someone, you're a booster. Go team! A booster provides support, like a kid’s booster seat, a follow-up dose of …
2024 Summer Retreat Volunteers NEEDED!
We Need a Few More Families to Volunteer at Retreats! We still have volunteer spots for our weekend retreats available with our greatest needs being at our first retreat of the season (May 31–June 2) and throughout September and October. Volunteers serve our guest families from Friday night to …
2024 Spring Campaign – Launching into 20 Years of Barren Heights!
Barren Heights has served families of children with disabilities for 20 years through FREE family retreats and inclusive community events. We often see surprised faces when we explain how everything we do is absolutely free to our families. Free meals. Free private cabin stay. Free entertainment. …
Panera Bread Fundraising Night for Our 2024 Spring Campaign
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024 Time: 4–8 p.m. Location: 13000 Shelbyville Rd, Middletown, KY 40243 Order Mode: In-restaurant counter or kiosk, Panera Bread App, panerabread.com Promo Code: FUND4U Download Our Fundraising Flyer for Dine-In Help Barren Heights during our 2024 Spring Campaign (May …
The Lodge Brick Fundraiser
Our Launch the Lodge brick fundraiser is here! If you haven’t heard, we are building a brand new multipurpose building at our Retreat Center that we are calling the Lodge! We broke ground in August 2023 and expect to be housing our volunteer families by the beginning of our 2024 Retreat Season. By …
Updates & Winter Fun! – 2024 Winter Newsletter
It may feel like spring outside, but somehow it's still winter out there! While you're waffling between short sleeves and sweatshirts, have a look at what we've been doing this past winter as well as what's ahead for Barren Heights this year. There's a bit of vision-casting, a bit of reminiscing, …
Update on The Lodge
If you haven’t heard, we are building a brand new multipurpose building at our Retreat Center that we are calling the Lodge! We broke ground in August 2023 and expect to be housing our volunteer families by the beginning of our 2024 Retreat Season. By the end of summer, we hope to have the entire …
2023 Annual Report
At the beginning of each year, we celebrate the previous year's accomplishments and look forward to the year ahead in our Annual Report. In 2023, we hosted 19 weekend retreats, 39 community events, and served 368 families of children with disabilities! Those numbers represent tangible experiences …
Thank You, 2023 Grant Sponsors!
Barren Heights is blessed not only by the generosity we receive from our monthly donors, but also through the grant support from charitable organizations and businesses. We cannot thank these organizations enough for believing in the mission and vision of Barren Heights. Their support allows us to …