Mencap
The voice of learning disability
The charity works with people with a learning disability to change laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support thousands of people to live their lives as they choose.
Examples of their work include:
- Supporting people with a learning disability to get a job or take a college course, or help them find a place of their own to live.
- Offering advice about things like respite care, individual budgets or transport services.
- Running residential/day care services and leisure groups that are so important to so many people with a learning disability, and their families and supporters.
- Supporting people with a learning disability to be part of their local communities.
- Lobbying the government to change laws so that more and more people with a learning disability can have control over their own lives.
Find out more
More information is available at www.mencap.org.uk. You can also find out more about the different work Mencap does on their other websites:
- Young Mencap—Mencap's website for young people aged 13–19
- Art Spider—Mencap’s arts website for people with a learning disability and anyone working in the art
