Archive for September, 2009
Access to Heritage featured in Access by Design magazine
Mencap Liverpool’s Access to Heritage project has been featured in the Centre for Accessible Environments magazine, Access by Design, as an example of how heritage venues can improve their access for people with learning disability. The article is about creating easy read documents and how the Access to Heritage project came up with guidelines on [...]
Free football sessions by Liverpool FC
Liverpool Football Club are putting on free football sessions for children and adults with learning disability. Four nights a week at St Margaret’s Church of England School there will be sessions, with Tuesday for severe learning difficulties, Wednesday for the visually impaired, Thursday for the physically disabled and Friday for wheelchair users. The Respect 4 [...]
Sponsored walk at Sportcity, Manchester
If you’d like to spend a fun afternoon on a sponsored walk and raise some money for Mencap Liverpool then we’ve got a great opportunity for you. We’ve teamed up with Royal Mencap to offer the chance to do the walk, you can pick the distance you want to do, and get sponsorship from friends [...]
The crucial questions in the Future of Care green paper
The government’s green paper on Shaping the Future of Care Together is a hefty document, so we’ve taken a read through it and here are the key points and questions that we need your feedback on. There are more and more volunerable people surviving in our community. Life expectancy is growing year by year. Who [...]
The story of L’Arche
“Will be my friend?” This is the question that started L’Arche, now an international federation of more than 135 member communities in 36 countries. The communities encompass 5,000 people with and without a learning disability, who share their lives in homes, workshops and day programmes. L’Arche is one of a number of ‘intentional communities’ that [...]
The Specials: a drama about young people with learning disability
We stumbled across The Specials the other week and it’s something we’d really like to share with you. Forget Skins on Channel 4, this is great real life stuff. It follows five housemates with learning disability in Brighton, as they are cared for, party hard and have relationships. It’s all video based, so you can [...]
Autumn 2009 newsletter
Mencap Liverpool has released its latest newsletter, bringing members and supporters the latest news and information. The Autumn 2009 edition includes the government’s Shaping the Future of Care Together report, an introduction to our new chief executive, Sarah Jones and a report on how our summer fun sessions went. There’s also loads of other really [...]
Mencap’s ‘This Is Me’ exhibition at Liverpool ONE
I went to visit Mencap’s ‘This Is Me’ exhibition yesterday at Liverpool ONE. I expected it to be in a prominent place but it was tucked away down one of the side alleys that come off the main strip, opposite where you go up the escalators to access the terrace area with all the restaurants. [...]
National Carers Week 2009 celebrated
The summer edition of Carers News has hailed the 2009 National Carers Week a success in Liverpool. Over 300 carers came together at St George’s Hall on June 9th 2009 to celebrate the week. Staff from Liverpool Carers Centre were there to offer information and carers were able to try out equipment from the gym [...]
