Mencap

We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose.

Our work includes:

• providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose

• providing advice through our helplines and websites

• campaigning for the changes that people with a learning disability want.

We have strong relations with a local network of more than 500 affiliated groups. Our local groups are individual charities in their own right, but we work closely with them to ensure people with a learning disability and their families have support locally as well as nationally.

We work 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.

We do many different things...

• We support people with a learning disability to get a job or take a college course, or we can help them find a place of their own to live in

• We offer advice about things like respite care, individual budgets or transport services

• We run residential/day care services and leisure groups that are so important to so many people with a learning disability, and their families and supporters

• We support people with a learning disability to be part of their local communities

• We lobby the government to change laws so that more and more people with a learning disability can have control over their own lives.