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An eco-inspired float, designed, built and manned by people supported by Hft, stole the show at the recent green-themed Market Harborough Carnival, raising over £1000 for adults with learning disabilities.
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Supported Employment Advocate, Erin O’Donnell, talks about her employment journey as she tries to bust some myths about working with a learning disability.
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Hft’s CEO encourages others to challenge misconceptions towards learning disabled adults
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Hft is inviting its supporters to take a ‘Leap of Kindness’ to combat the loneliness and isolation experienced by learning disabled adults. This follows illuminating research that found more than one third (36%) of learning disabled people felt lonely nearly always or all the time.
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Mark Tami MP visited two supported employment initiatives and a day centre, run by Hft, last Friday to learn about the varied work the charity carries out to support people with a learning disability within his constituency in Flintshire.
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Kirsty Matthews, CEO of Hft, has responded to the Fabian Society’s report to the Labour party, supporting calls for a national approach to social care.
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Hft’s much-anticipated annual garden party in Wadebridge, Cornwall has this year raised over £1000 to support local adults with learning disabilities.
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Researchers at the University of the West of England (Bristol) have observed a clear correlation between the level of activity of a learning disabled woman and the time she spent with visitors, suggesting that having visitors has a positive impact on activity levels.
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In 2020, in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, Hft launched a targeted programme to recruit local volunteers to give their time to supportive activities within services in and around London.
Now in its third year, the initiative is doing better than ever – and Hft is looking to extend the programme’s blueprint to other parts of the country.
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Joe, an intern who worked behind the scenes at the recent Eurovision Song Contest, has won an award for Most Progress in Hft’s Project SEARCH Celebration Event, held recently to highlight the incredible journeys interns and graduates on the programme have been on.