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Local families unite with Mencap Liverpool against big cuts
LIVERPOOL FAMILIES have been finding out how to fight for their rights, thanks to the ‘Big Cuts’ event organised by Mencap Liverpool last Wednesday. More than 75 people who have a learning disability, or who care for someone who does, attended the all-day event where they gained invaluable advice on how to access support, and [...]
Who makes your life brighter?
During December, the Mencap Liverpool Christmas ‘Tree of Light’ will be kindly hosted by the Victoria Gallery and Museum (VG&M), in support of our ’Light up a Life campaign’ Our campaign gives you the chance to say how a loved one has brought light and love into your life. You might want honour someone with a learning disability, [...]
Join the Liverpool Museums Advisory Group
National Museums Liverpool are looking for a disabled person to join their Museums Advisory Group. You will be attending up to six meetings a year and offer advice on how the museums can be improved to provide access to disabled and deaf people. Members are reimbursed for access costs when attending meetings and receive an [...]
Mencap Liverpool Annual General Meeting 2009 highlights
The 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place at Greenbank Sports College, Liverpool on Friday 9th October 2009. Over 40 members of Mencap Liverpool turned up, including the trustee board, to vote through the new strategic vision for the organisation as presented by Chief Executive, Sarah Jones. The new vision for 2013 was met with [...]
Trustee meeting highlights: 28/09/2009
The Mencap Liverpool trustee board met at the Gateway Centre, London Road on 28th September 2009. The trustees was attending were Ed Gilchrist, Ed Walker, John Courtney, Peter Cowan, Rod Wilson and Alan Griffiths (Find out more about the trustees). The chief executive of Mencap Liverpool, Sarah Jones and the Project co-ordinator of the Employment [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wicked Fish looking for new actors
Liverpool based drama group, Wicked Fish, are looking for people with learning disability to join their company of actors. The group are looking for people with energy, passion, acting ability, who like to learn and want to be part of a team. Wicked Fish is a company of professional actors who have learning difficulties. They [...]
Trustee meeting highlights: 24/08/2009
The Mencap Liverpool trustee board met at the Gateway Centre, London Road on 24th August 2009. The trustees was attending were Ed Gilchrist, Ed Walker, Suzanna Tomlinson, John Courtney and Alan Griffiths (Find out more about the trustees). The chief executive of Mencap Liverpool, Sarah Jones and the Project co-ordinator of the Access to Heritage [...]
