Mencap Liverpool & Sefton - empowering learning disabilities

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Friday 28th February 2025

A little flavour of our Thursday Club Drumming Session with Dan and David - a firm favourite with our members and s great way to reduce stress - thank you both for a bangin evening!

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Friday 28th February 2025

Yesterday at Thursday Club Mary from @solaart was working with our group on the "How Can I Use My Skills to Help My Community' Art Project. The group are doing this by creating Dioramas using a variety of media. One person is creating a hospital as they had worked many years ago on the book trolley - like a mini mobile library for patients. Other people are creating vsrious themes - a cake shop, supermarket, garden, a library and more! We have such a creative group of people with so much talent - It is awesome to see these projects progress each time Mary comes in. Mary is doing a superb job at helping people identify their skills and how to realise that in their dioramas. We can't forget our volunteers who help our members on the evening from cutting things out, to listening to people's ideas and helping people to make those ideas a reality - what a team! Thank you everyone !

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Friday 28th February 2025

Part of the role of Outreach is to support our members to expand people's circles of support and find things that are meaningful and purposeful. Our @mencapliverpool member Donna has volunteered at the @allsaintskensington Charity Shop for over 2 years and her Manager Paul could not praise Donna enough for her hard work and commitment. Paul said that Donna keeps the baby clothes tidy and in order which is a huge help, she keeps the shelves clean, makes sure the clothes rails are all in order, the hangers face the same way, any clothes that have slipped off are hung back up in the right way and generally keeping the shop looking gorgeous and welcoming for the customers Donna is a valued and respected member of the team at @ASKCharityshop - great work Donna!

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Friday 28th February 2025

Working with Ste and the team @LCR_106.7fm is about constantly learning and improving our skills on the airwaves! Our current show with Kevin and Lewis is perhaps the best yet - however we do struggle with our scripts when we are recording - it is easy to lose our place and can cause long pauses on the show - dead air is a big no-no - we want our listeners to hear a constant flow of all the great things we talk about on our show "Reach Out" Ste has been working with us today to look at ways for us to improve our interviewing techniques. We've also had some great news about some guests for our next show - watch this space!

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Friday 28th February 2025

Today @Mencapliverpool was invited to an Open Morning at @sandfieldparkschool where we could speak to students about our organisation. As an old pupil of Sandfield Park - member Amanda was keen to volunteer at this event and met with our Outreach Manager at 8 30am ready to set up the table for a 9am start. At each event we go to we take a wide range of leaflets that tell people about all the things we do. We also have our funky little chairs that are a great talking point that opens up a conversation where we tell everyone about @coffeeatmencap Based at Mencap Community Cottage we invite everyone to pop along for a gorgeous coffee, jot chocolate, tea, cake, toasties and much more ... and also see the full size chairs that were decorated by @gemmalongworth_diy and friends back in May 2023 - where the furniture was upcycled from clunky to funky! it was great to speak with students and find out what their hopes are for the future and answer their questions about Mencap Liverpool and Sefton. After the students had come around the tables some parents came along to gather information and speak to different organisations also. A big thank you to Sarah Spoor who invited us along on the day - it was a fantastic morning and well done to our Outreach Champion Amanda for representing our organisation. Great job!

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Thursday 27th February 2025

We had a great day at Chester on Friday for our Travel Training Trip with our On the Right Track Project funded by Avanti West Coast 🚆 Chester was on a lot of people's travel list so off we went! Did you know that you can travel to Chester free of charge via train if you have a MerseyTravel Disability Travel Pass? ❔✅ There's lots to do there and great for a day out and only one train away from Liverpool! We went for a look inside Chesters beautiful cathedral, a stroll through the centre and visited Chester Markets where we seen a Lego exhibition of all the important buildings in Chester! 🏘️🏠🏛️ We even seen The Real Housewives of Cheshire filming at the markets! 😂🎥 We can't wait for our next adventure 🙌

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Wednesday 26th February 2025

Our @mencapliverpool member Adam has been working with Annmarie LD and SMH Care Co-Ordinator of @swagga_pcn on Sensory Audits for 3 more of their practises. The differences in the buildings are huge across the SWAGGA network - of the 3 we visited 1 began life over 170 years ago as a house and another was purpose built and opened aroind the tine of the millenium!! Each site is unique and it has been really interesting to see just how varied the surgeries are. Each surgery was very welcoming and are really supportive of these audits to help patients have the best experience when coming to their GP Practse. Annmarie is going to collate all of the audits and give feedback on what is working well, share good practise and what adjustments might be helpful. We have one more day of audits coming up and are looking forward to seeing the remaining surgeries - thank you Adam for your hard work and professionalism and to Annmarie for coordinating everything - it has been a pleasure to work with you.

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Tuesday 25th February 2025

On Monday @mencapliverpool members Lewis, Kyle and Adam delivered Learning Disability Awareness Training alongside Hilary Harper Learning Disability Health Care Facilitator from @merseycarenhsft and Dr Fiona Greeley from @livuni to 4th Year Student Doctors at the University of Liverpool. This training is to help the students to see us and not our Learning Disability and to understand how best to communicate with us and also to recognise how people can for example often acquiesce or be open to suggestability and be guided by the tone of voice or facial expressions of the health professional who we are consulting with. 90% of people with a learning disability also have communication difficulties and so we need to make sure we get it right for people.- especially with all the health inequalities we face. Great job everyone! - keep speaking up!

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Tuesday 25th February 2025

Our AMAZING member Stephen has begun fundraising for @mencapliverpool again - thank you Ste! Stephen is a fantastic supporter of our organisation using his online skills, his creative skills - making bracelets and desk tidys, running events, getting sponsored and running raffles - not just for us - for Children In Need and many more charities. As well as fundraising Stes other passion is music and recently was delighted to meet @bgt winner @sydniechristmas on her recent tour. Thank you for your kindness and support Stephen you are a real superstar ✨️

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Sunday 23rd February 2025

On Friday our team of radio presenters Sue, Lewis, Rachel, Kevin and Tony who present the @mencapliverpool show 'Reach Out' on @lcr_106.7fm were invited to Thr Radio Station Open Day to talk to people about our show and the work we do at Liverpool Community Radio, meet presenters from other shows and hear about the impact the station has on individuals and the wider community. Everyonr did a great job and were extremely professional and helpful. Great work team. After we held our usual catch up to prepare for our next show and to plan our shows throughout the year. listen to our latest show on https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mencap-reachout-feb-march-25--64378234 Or tune in to 106.7fm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10am to listen

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30th January 2025

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Thursday Club with the SoSo Choir

Thursday 9th May 2024

Thursday Club has been meeting for 61 years at Mencap Community Cottage and are very much a part of the fabric of the local area in Crosby.

Thursday Club members are a fantastic group of friends - some of our members went to school together, or day services and this is the only place where people get to meet up with friends.

Each quarter our Outreach Manager plans a program of sessions which has been informed by our members at the yearly review.

Members get to get involved with a wide range of things - art, zumba, accessible bikes, silent discos, Boos Zoo visits, coach trips and more.

Every session is supported by a member of our staff team either our Outreach Manager, Progressions Coordinator or Fundraising and Communities Coordinator who work as a team to support our members and team of volunteers to have a fantastic evening each week!

This week we welcomed Su Grainger and some members of her SoSo (Singing Our Socks Off) Choir and it was an absolutely incredible evening!

Su and her team sing with our members and also sing requests and invite our members to sing and dance.

As well as the Choir we had an artistic corner where people got creative and it was a lovely evening.

Big thank you to Su and her Choir and our fantastic team of volunteers who make our Thursday Club possible.

Open Afternoon at Mencap Community Cottage

Wednesday 17th April 2024

On Wednesday 17th April we held an Open Afternoon at Mencap Community Cottage - everyone was welcome to drop in and find out more about:

⭐️ becoming a member
⭐️ or a volunteer
⭐️ the sessions organised for our members
⭐️ the improvements we have made to our building
⭐️ our future plans to make the building even better
⭐️our community sessions
⭐️our superb Coffee at Mencap

The day was a real success and our members worked incredibly hard showing people around, meeting and greeting people, talking about Mencap Liverpool and Sefton, manning information tables, serving tea and coffee and selling some of the indoor plants we have grown. Thank you to our members for your hardwork.

We were really lucky to have photographer June Poston LRPS come along for the afternoon and take these brilliant photos. Halton Day Service Samba Band opened our event and our members had an impromptu Sumba session supported by our Zumba Instructor Louise Rooney - the photos taken by June truly capture the happiness and confidence people felt.

We are so thankful to the people who volunteer their time to help in such a huge range of ways - thank you, thank you, thank you.

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