Vodafone has announced it is working with the social change charity Good Things Foundation to connect digitally excluded families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.
Vodafone has provided unlimited data SIMs and dongles to connect over 2,500 people, including almost 150 families and adults with disabilities in the South West, enabling them to access support services, online education and employment opportunities. The Good Things Foundation ‘Connecting Families’ programme crucially includes specialist one-on-one support to ensure that, in addition to devices and...
A housing officer at East Devon District Council will be running her first marathon later this month – and has chosen the gruelling London race for her initial outing.
Amy Gilbert, Support Services Manager, has run several half marathons, but has never before run in a full marathon. She is running in aid of Mencap, a charity that is dear to her heart as she has a younger sister who has severe mental and physical disabilities.
She aims to have at least £3,000 collected or pledged before she joins the other 40,000 or so runners in London on race day – Sunday 26 April....
It is very easy as an Exeter student to forget about the outside world. Campus-based, we can end up spending literally all day on campus pretending to do work in the library and drinking in the Ram, having little to no interactions with any outside beings. Even the news can seem a little unreal as Exeter turns into our own little oasis, protected by a barrier from the outside. Earthquake in Thailand? The stuff of movies. Fluctuations in the exchange rate? Just words in a textbook. A local fundraiser for the retirement home? Barely registers on our radar.
Caroline White, whose son Seb was the first child with Down’s syndrome to feature in a major UK high street advertising campaign for M&S last Christmas, is backing Mencap’s Learning Disability Week (19-25 August) calling for superhero stories.
The learning disability charity Mencap is calling for people with a learning disability and their families to share their stories of strength, courage and achievement as part of its Learning Disability Week. The charity’s aim for the week is to celebrate people with a learning disability, their families and supporters by asking the...
Exeter has taken on its festive cloak for Christmas, shop windows aglow with enticing displays, the Christmas market on Cathedral Green, amazing street lights, late-night shopping and a host of events to increase the growing excitement of the season. But without the birth of that so special manger-bedded baby, whose coming gifted us Christmas, we lose the reason for the season and so we celebrate the real meaning of Christmas as an opportunity for joy. One of those opportunities is the annual Exeter and District Mencap Society’s Carol service to be held at South Street Baptist Church South...
The annual Exeter and District Mencap Society’s Carol service will be held at South Street Baptist Church on Sunday 9th December at 6.30pm.
The carol servcie will be followed by refreshments.
The Exeter and District Mencap Society supports those with a learning disability treating each as a valued member of society together with their families and carers. It is a continuous, big task performed by big hearted people who demonstrate a wonderful and patient care. They enable people with learning difficulties to make their own contribution to life. Indeed, at the carol service...
