An independent charity for people with learning disabilities

Spring Newsletter

Read our latest News Dear Friends and Supporters, As the season turns to light and growth, I’d like to highlight the work we have been doing with Entelechy Arts to help raise the voice of people with profound and multiple disabilities. We’ve been working with Entelechy on their Ambient Jam sessions and inviting decision makers […]

People’s parliament report on Safer Streets

Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Safer Streets Read our new people’s parliament report on Safer Streets! In December 2024, we held a People’s Parliament about safer streets. We talked about hate crime, street disorder, safer places schemes and riots. You can read the report here Or click on the picture of the […]

Question Time with Lewisham MPs 2025

Lewisham MPs Listen to People with learning disabilities On Friday 31st January, we hosted a Question Time at the Catford Civic Suite for people with learning disabilities. One of our People’s Parliament reps suggested that we hold this event as part of our self advocacy work. They said it would be a great chance for […]

Read our People’s Parliament report on the Elections

  Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on our Elections In September 2024, we held a People’s Parliament where we elected a new set of People’s Parliament reps. You can read the report here Or click on the picture of the report     36 people with a learning disability came to vote for […]

Winter Newsletter

We have lots of news hot off the press! Please share with anyone who might be interested to know about our work with people with learning disabilities

Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024

Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024 We had a fantastic time at the Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024 in Birmingham! It was a great way to finish off our time as the current Lewisham People’s Parliament reps’ team and meet some amazing new people. The Journey We had a long but fun journey from […]

Barriers to Employment Report

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New Report on Barriers to Employment We have produced a new report that looks at the barriers and solutions to people with learning disabilities and autistic people working in health and social care. How we approached the project on Barriers to Employment It was important to us that this work was led by experts by […]

Autumn Newsletter

We have lots of news hot off the press! Please share with anyone who might be interested to know about our work with people with learning disabilities

Read our People’s Parliament report on self advocacy

the cover of the People's Parliament report on self advocacy

Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Self Advocacy – past, present and future Read our new report on self advocacy! In June 2024, we held a People’s Parliament about self advocacy. We talked about the past present and future of self advocacy. You can read the report here  Or click on the picture […]

Summer Newsletter

We have lots of news hot off the press! Please share with anyone who might be interested to know about our work with people with learning disabilities

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