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-'''Searchlight''' was founded in 1933 by [[Muriel Powell (Chailey Heritage and Searchlight)|Matron Powell]], successor to Dame [[Grace Kimmins]], as a set of workshops and home to teach useful skills and formed under the auspices of the [[Chailey Heritage]]. It was founded because Matron Powell realised that once the boys were 15 they were thrown out into the world unprepared to make their way.<ref name="Wojtczak" />
-==History==
-The [[Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk|Duchess of Norfolk]] became a patron and opened a second building in 1951. [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|The Queen]] visited in July 1962.<ref name="Wojtczak">{{cite book| title=Notable Sussex Women: 580 Biographical Sketches |isbn=978-1-904109-15-0 |publisher=Hastings Press |author=Helena Wojtczak |date=2008-06-01}}</ref>
-==Present day==
-Searchlight undertakes printing and small assembly work as well as making garden furniture and bird tables etc. It participates in an [[East Sussex]] [[apprentice]] scheme.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/yourcouncil/pressoffice/pressreleases/2005/03/0503117jw.htm |title=Gateway to qualification |date=2005-03-15 |accessdate=2009-01-25}}</ref>
-Currently (2009) there are three residential houses, which accommodate forty-seven, and a day centre.<ref name="Wojtczak" />
-==Location==
-Searchlight is located on Mount Pleasant, the hill behind the East Beach at [[Denton, Sussex|Denton]].
-==External links==
-*[http://www.search-light.org.uk/ Official website]
-==Notes==
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-[[Category:Organizations established in 1933]]
-[[Category:Charities for disabled people based in the United Kingdom]]
-[[Category:Charities based in East Sussex]]
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