Staff Blog
Video from Wednesday’s Festive Fundraiser
There are many clips I wish I’d captured from last Wednesday evening, Anna performing of ’A Case of You’, Tom’s Bohemian Rhapsody on solo(!) guitar, Dave’s beautiful version of Billie Jean and Anna closing with ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ were my personal highlights. Unfortunately I was far too enthralled to get my phone out [...]
Thank you!
We would like a say a massive ‘thank you’ to everyone who attended our Christmas Fundraiser with Anna Corcoran – you helped us raise a whopping £1,300 for Mencap Liverpool! Aside from the money raised it was a really lovely evening and we’ve already had many requests to do another event in the spring. We’ll put the [...]
Raise Money, Have Fun, Get Fit- Join our Santa Dash Team
There’s definitely a healthy atmosphere in the Mencap Liverpool office at the moment. Our healthy living workshops start tomorrow afternoon (they’ll be running each wednesday 1-3pm until Christmas) and the staff are eating healthier and joining the gym! That’s because lots of us will be doing the Liverpool Santa Dash on Sunday 4th December. We’ll be raising [...]
2011 Liverpool Marathon Effort #6
Hello everyone, I’m thinking of renaming these blog entries ‘Sarah’s injury update’, as that’s what I mainly seem to talk about. However, this week I wanted to focus more on the amazing help and support I’ve received- getting me to complete the 26.2 miles will certainly be a team effort: It seems there are a [...]
2011 Liverpool Marathon Effort #5
Well there’s now less than 4 weeks to go and I think I’ve gone past the point of being scared! I’m starting to run again- I managed a whole 2k around the park tonight! My knee seems to be holding up, but I’m on strict instructions to build up slowly. I have an exercise plan [...]
2011 Liverpool Marathon Effort #3
Oh dear- this really isn’t going to plan! I’ve just come back to work after being struck down by an evil virus, I’ve spent most of the last ten days sleeping and although I’m just about fit enough to be in work answering emails, I’m not good for much else so my training progress [...]
2011 Liverpool Marathon Effort #2
Oh dear- my marathon training has stalled once again After starting my training late due to a back problem, I managed to pull a muscle in my calf on one of my first training sessions back- I’ve been told to avoid running for at least a week and I’m meant to stay off it as [...]
2011 Liverpool Marathon Effort #1
I’m Sarah, the Chief Exec of Mencap Liverpool and back in January I signed up for this year’s Liverpool Marathon- it seemed a really good idea at the time! Now it’s the middle of June and the marathon is less than 4 months away so it’s probably about time I got my act together. I [...]
Big Cuts Event
Apologies for the lack of blogging recently, work at Mencap Liverpool has been so busy, especially in the weeks leading up to the Big Cuts Event! The day finally came last Wednesday and it was a great success! We had brilliant feedback from those who attended and everyone seemed to find the day extremely useful. [...]
Starting my fifth week
I cannot quite believe that I have already been here for a month – it’s gone unbelievably fast! So many things have happened and I have met so many people that it has all flown by. Last week, one of our members Sarah and I did a Royal Wedding Street Party themed cake sale in [...]
