Mencap Liverpool & Sefton - empowering learning disabilities

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Monday 4th November 2024

What a day Friday was for our team of radio presenters! It was the first time our first monthly show was aired - we all listened to the show and gave each other lots of compliments, congratulations and feedback - what a team! Moving forward our show will be about anything and everything - iur December show will definitely have some Christmassy vibes! If you are at a lose end on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday at 10am in November tune into @lcr_106.7fm

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Monday 4th November 2024

On Friday Adam began a new volunteering role at @thecroissantl7 Adam will be working each Friday morning with the team at the Croissant under the Cafe Manager Sue. On Adam's first day he got stuck in with washing up, sweeping the floors, cleaning the kitchen area and cleaning the surfaces down through the day. As well as taking food to customers and making teas and coffees. The freshly made soup of the day was broccoli, greens and spring onions and Adam used the stick blender to make this a smooth consistency and the soup was a real hit. Adam will be learning more skills on the food preparation and cooking side of the catering sector in the coming weeks and months. Don't worry Adam will still be volunteering at the Coffee Shop every Wednesday in Crosby for all of his regular customers! Good luck Adam and well done for taking this brave step out of your comfort zone to learn new skills and try something new!

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Monday 4th November 2024

Professor Richard Wilkinson’s presentation “Inequality: the enemy between us?” was after lunch. He touched on so many subjects - how buying something for others rather than yourself makes you feel better; the huge leap in global warming figures with this year and last being the hottest ever; how income inequality affects how we treat each other and how we feel about ourselves and how status insecurity increases anxieties; how poverty differs from country to country but how it makes the poorest people feel the same; how people who are poorer are more likely to spend their money on high status cars and goods and aboit so many other things that proves that poverty creates health inequalities the world over. All of the presenters, workshops etc echoed this same message throughout the day. Professor Richard Wilkinson made recommendations like stopping tax avoidance, ending tax havens as well as the need for stronger trade unions, more employee ownership – I’m sure everyone who attended agreed that everything he talked supprted what we in the room know and wished he could’ve stayed on and talked for longer. #LiverpoolChange #healthinequalities #hopeuni #mencapliverpoolandsefon

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Monday 4th November 2024

Katie Schmuecker from Joseph Rowntree Foundation presentation entitled Deepening poverty driving poor health looked at the long view of UK poverty and how it has risen and how it rose sharply during the 80’s. She also talked about how the numbers of people living in ‘deep poverty’ are growing and the impact of poverty of health is stark. She told us that there are 5.4 million households that couldn’t afford enough food in the previous 30 days, the numbers showing that life expectancy of people living in deprived areas is falling and more of peoples shorter life times are being spent in ill health, that depression rates are 2 times higher, and nearly 4 times as many people are sectioned in the most deprived areas – the impact of poverty on peoples mental health can’t be ignored. Katie also talked about benefits, work, housing and the calls they are making to government for change. It was a really informative and powerful presentation. #LiverpoolChange #healthinequalities #hopeuni #mencapliverpoolandsefon

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Monday 4th November 2024

Director of Public Health Liverpool Professor Matthew Ashton talked to us about the current state of health in Liverpool in 2024 which was quite sobering and the projected state of health. He talked about what we are doing now – the links between poverty and health inequalities are really clear to see. After Professor Matthew Ashton Debbie Abrahams MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth talked about these same links between poverty and health inequalities. #LiverpoolChange #healthinequalities #hopeuni #mencapliverpoolandsefon

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Monday 4th November 2024

Last week our Outreach Manager attended the Inequalities and Health Summit: Call for Action in the North West and Beyond at @liverpoolhopeuk which explored the relationship between inequality and health. The event was incredibly informative with a range of talks, workshops and panel discussions. The day was opened by Lord Mayor Richard Kemp @cllrkemp and Councillor Jane Corbet who set the scene, as councillors and they have witnessed and campaigned about some of the health inequalities the people in their wards face. #LiverpoolChange #healthinequalities #hopeuni #mencapliverpoolandse

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Friday 1st November 2024

We need your help!!! Lots of people are struggling to find NHS dentists and get the treatment they need - not just people with learning disabilities- but everyone. We know that we need to make sure the voices of people with learning disabilities is heard 📢📢📢 A Researcher from the University of Liverpool and Learning Disability Nurse from Mersey Care are coming to hear what we have to say. Please can I ask that you come along to share your experiences of dental services - good and bad. Please let me know if you can come.

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Friday 1st November 2024

If you can't listen to our @mencapliverpool members amazing show over the airwaves on @lcr_106.7fm then why not listen to us at your leisure via spreaker https://www.spreaker.com/episode/reach-out-nov-24--62535427?fbclid=IwY2xjawGNAONleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHTaI4eo-VUj4i_mqXqCm5-idVF49UemHkjM1pSxUhdoU-RBvp8whWFnI4w_aem_fDX6dccZfKk-yhIp_wTTeQ

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Friday 1st November 2024

⭐️⭐️ON AIR NOW ON LCR 106.7FM⭐️⭐️ Today Friday 1st November is the first play of our @mencapliverpool Outreach Champions Monthly Radio Show 'Reach Out' - which will be aired every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10am - go and have a listen - Kevin, Due and Tony you were MARVELLOUS!!!

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Monday 28th October 2024

Today at the @bbcmerseyside 'Be Scam Safe' @mencapliverpool member Amber met the legend @t.snell_ who invited us into his studio to say hello - which was a marvellous and unexpected surprise on a Monday morning! Amber got to look around the event and test how safe her passwords was with @merseysidepolice and also talk about our online presence. Thank you to Chrissy and everyone who helped and spoke with us today! #mencapliverpoolandsefton #mencapliverpool #bescamsafe #radiomeseyside

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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