📣 Calling All Early Years Practitioners! 📣
We have two amazing Early Years Practitioner Training sessions coming up very soon:

Introduction to Learning Disability - Online Webinar
Thursday 9th May 2024
18:30 - 21:30

Global Developmental Delay - Online Webinar
Monday 13th May…

Have you got a few minutes? ⌚️
We want to hear from people with a learning disability and their carers about what their thoughts are on healthy living and healthy lifestyles, as well as what their concerns are.

If you have a few minutes and would like to share your thoughts…

🌟 Congratulations Owen! 🌟
Owen has just started a new work placement in Assisi Animal Sanctuary ✨
There he is involved in site maintenance, sorting of donations and socialising with the cats in the cattery 🐱
Owen is being supported on the SkillSET - Support, Employment, Training Mencap programme to…

🌟 Amazing Opportunity! 🌟
We are looking for passionate and kind individuals to join our Early Years team as Pre-School Assistants.
As a Pre-School Assistant you will support the children through a programme of play, care and education alongside a multidisciplinary team.
We…

in the diverse fun touring show of the year, coming to Derry, Saturday 29th June.🤩Ticket link 👇: watersidetheatreni.com/event/view/lov…
#DiverseTheatre #BreakingBarriers #jamesmartinlegacy #musicaltheatre #inclusion #Diversity

If you are in Derry this Saturday definitely head to see SkyzdalimitOmagh’s taster performance! 🥳

meet the cast and have fun!😁Also very excited😍to be meeting Mark H Durkan ,MLA and @GaryMiddletonMLA and CEO of Autism NI, Kerry Boyd, who are supporting our touring show at the Waterside Theatre NI. Don't miss our 38 extraordinary neurodiverse performers..

We did it!!! 40mph wind gusts, sleet, snow you name it but we made it to the top. Well done to everyone who took part in our charity walk today. We are so grateful for your support 💕 Mencap NI Peter Gilgunn

Good luck to our team starting their charity hike to the top of Slieve Donard this morning. Breaking news that we have wind chills of -12c at the top!! 😳🥶

#teammencap 💕

Early start this morning for Mencap NI Slieve Donard Charity Hike. Here’s hoping the weather is kind to us 🫣☔️🌦️⛈️ Peter Gilgunn

Best morning at Mencap’s marathon training session. James is an Oscar winner, an athlete… 📸 and a snapper! UTV Live News

Can you support us today and Rock Your Socks?

World Down Syndrome Day is marked on the 21 March each year and by donating £2.10 or £21 you can help us support people with a learning disability. #WDSD24

👉 Please donate today: brnw.ch/21wI51l [3/3]

Laura, Anna Rose's mum, said: 'My big wish for Anna Rose is she will live in a world where negative & outdated perceptions of Down syndrome are a thing of the past.

'While her learning disability impacts on Anna Rose's ability to learn, it doesn’t STOP her from learning.' [2/3]

It's World Down Syndrome Day! Are you rocking your socks for Mencap? 🧦

Meet Matilda, Camille and Anna Rose, three friends from Mencap NI Children’s Centre.

📖 Read their stories here: mencap.org.uk/blog/worlds-co…. #WDSD2024 [1/3]

#WorldDownSyndromeDay #WDSD2024 🧦

Eoin and had great visit to Hydebank Wood today with rachael dinsmore . Our walk through will help us give good recs on making reception and family areas more accessible. A big thank you Rachael and colleagues for welcoming us today!😀 Mencap NI Justice NI Prison Service

Last weekend we attended Alliance Party conference. It was great to chat with Naomi Long MLA and Stephen Farry MP on key issues affecting people with learning disability both locally and nationally. We continue to engage with all our elected representatives across NI to support…

Everyone has a right to a safe and secure home. We teamed up with Shelter to create accessible Easy Read resources on housing issues.

Ismail shares tips on how to manage rent, as well as what other issues the resources cover.

📢 Book Your Place Now! 📢
You can now book your spot on our next Learning Disability Awareness Training session! In these sessions we aim to raise awareness and understanding of learning disabilities.
Each session is led by expert trainers with first-hand experience of living…

Tickets now live at this link-(price includes £1.50 booking fees) Waterside Theatre - love-me-love-me-not (watersidetheatreni.com)
#diversity #inclusion #theatre #breakingbarriers Donegal Downsyndrome Autism NI Mencap NI
Destined Little Angels School Mayor Derry Strabane