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Friday 20th December 2024
Yesterday our Outreach Champions welcomed Dez Chow, Patient Experience and Engagement Facilitator from @liverpoolwomens,,Vivien Mansfield, Learning Disabilities Health Care Facilitator from @merseycarenhsft and student nurse Nathania Kearney from @edgehilluniversity Dez had come to meet with us all to talk about how accessible the Liverpool Women's Hospitls is - from receiving a letter to invite someone in, to getting to the hospital, finding your way to the right place in the hospital, to staff making the reasonable adjustments people might need whilst they are there. Vivien explained about how having our Annual Health Checks and being on the Learning Disability Register would also improve our experience as patients in all the different hospitals we have. We welcomed our member Becs along. She joined our Outreach Champions meeting for the first time and we hope she will continue to come along and get involved with all the interesting and important things we are getting involved in. Thank you to everyone who came along and we can't wait to work with you all in 2025.
Published by ig on 2024-12-20T13:18:30+0000
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Friday 20th December 2024
Our friends at Easy Read Online have created a really useful Easy Read Winter Guide 🌨️ Advice on: ✔️ Staying warm ✔️ Staying healthy ✔️ Getting help with money ✔️ Supporting others Go to their page @easyreadonline and click on bio to download! #winter #health #easyread #inclusive #advice
Published by ig on 2024-12-20T12:57:13+0000
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Friday 20th December 2024
Our brilliant @mencapliverpool member Ste on the keyboard @homebakedbakery_ spreading some Christmas Joy! Great job Ste!
Published by ig on 2024-12-20T12:41:24+0000
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Friday 20th December 2024
Today is the last day of Disability History Month and the theme was Disability Livelihood and Employment. Our member Ste has been a part of @homebakedbakery_ for 2 years Ste entertains the customers playing the keyboard each week and often takes requests. This week Ste had us all singing along to some gorgeous Christmas Carols and putting everyone in a jolly holiday mood. Ste is reliable, friendly, hardworking and a respected member of the Homebaked team. The purpose of Disability History Month was to: 🔸️promote the rights of disabled people 🔸️challenge stereotypes 🔸️advocate for equal rights 🔸️honour the contribution of disabled people These are at the heart of everything we do and also the organisations where our members work - brilliant work Ste and everyone at Homebaked.
Published by ig on 2024-12-20T12:03:17+0000
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Friday 20th December 2024
Last Friday Ste Faragher @lcr_106.7fm put on a bespoke training session to help our team of presenters on our show 'Reach Out' plan and execute our shows in 2025 to make the shows even better! It was really useful. We agreed on a generic opening Our show is called Mencap Liverpool and Sefton, Outreach Champions radio show 'Reach Out' We then brainstormed our ideas and 2025 is going to be a very exciting time for everyone on the airwaves - thank you to all our members who work so hard to promote our organisation and raise awareness of learning disabilities - you really are Champions!
Published by ig on 2024-12-20T10:25:17+0000
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Friday 20th December 2024
Some of our Outreach Champions present a monthly show on @lcr_106.7fm This month there was a Christmassy Vibe ⛄️ Kevin interviewed his boss Paul from Kensington All Saints Chairty Shop 🎄Lewis talks about his favourite Mencap Christmas memories of @mencapliverpool ⛄️Sue talked about the play that our members have recently been involved with as part of the Seeds Of Change project 🎄our volunteer Tony interviewed his friend who had been to 57 games as off the end of November and the different leagues and places. It is a brilliant listen! You can either tune in to 106.7fm throughout December to listen at 10am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday or foliw this link https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15ZYYBf7S7/
Published by ig on 2024-12-20T10:16:51+0000
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Wednesday 11th December 2024
Tony’s walking group 🚶”walk this way, talk this way” Last Thursday the group braved the weather 🌧️on their final walk of the year! While waiting for the rain to ease, we had a look around the amazing central library enjoying the Picton reading room 📚before returning to walk around the Christmas market 🎄unfortunately, we had to end the walk short as the weather got worse 😞 However with no complaints everyone still had an amazing time. 👍 If you would like to join us in the new year, get in contact with Hannah on: 07881 869846 #walkinggroup #livingwellsefton #healthylifestyle #mentalhealthmatters #christmasmarket #centrallibraryliverpool #everystepcounts #mencapliverpoolandsefton
Published by ig on 2024-12-11T17:11:42+0000
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Wednesday 11th December 2024
Unfortunately due to sickness 🤒 our community Zumba gold session has been cancelled today ❌
Published by ig on 2024-12-11T09:28:05+0000
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Friday 29th November 2024
Last Friday @mencapliverpool member Adam Farah delivered a presentation to over 100 staff and students @sandfieldparkschool about his life and the jobs he has had. Adam is a former pupil of Sandfield Park and his teacher Sarah Spoor had asked if he could come back to speak to the school. Adam has been supported by our Outreach Manager to put together and practise his presentation over the past weeks. He has worked so hard and delivered it to various friends and supporters at Adams voluntary jobs as well as our team of Outreach Champions too. As well as Adams friends being a listening ear - Adams family have been helping Adam to prepare - finding fabulous photos and rehearsing with him. Its been a real collaboration. When asked why he was invited to do this Adam said 'To inspire the students.' and he certainly did! Adam spoke about his various paid and voluntary jobs beginning with his supported internship at the Marriott Hotel. Adam got a paid job at the Marriott and was a real success story. Adam was one of the first students at Sandfield Park to be on the supported internship program. Unfortunately because of Covid Adam was made redundant. Adam didn't give up and began volunteering @coffeeatmencap where he has worked for 2 years. He then got his part time paid job @brownlowhealth where he has worked for a year. Adam is still looking to do more paid work and his dream is to buy his mum a house. Adams final message to everyone was: ✅️ keep trying ✅️ keep smiling ✅️ have fun! Mr Kewley Head of School thanked Adam for coming and said that Adams final message was the same message that he always shares with Sandfield Park students. He thought it was a brilliant presentation and a fantastic final message. It's been hardwork but Adam never gave up, turning up for ever practise, he kept trying, he never stopped smilling and also had fun! When we asked how Adam felt it had gone he said 'I was great. I feel proud!' Awesome work Adam!
Published by ig on 2024-11-29T22:37:02+0000
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.
Published by Jo on Fri May 10 2024 12:41:52 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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.
Published by Jo on Thu May 09 2024 17:15:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)