Bromley Mencap

Sixteen skiers, with a learning disability and from the Bromley based Special Olympics GB South East Skiing squad had a successful time in Pila, Italy at the Special Olympics GB National Alpine Skiing Championships.  The team came home with 8 Gold, 4 Silver and 5 Bronze medals .  Jane Andrews from Southborough and Biggin Hill’s [...]

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available. Please click here to view There are also links there to previous issues, should you require any further information Enjoy.

Come along to an important coffee morning/meeting on 10th January at Burgess Autistic Trust, 129 Southlands Road, Bromley BR2 9QT, at 10am.  Michael Watts (Senior Partnerships and Planning Officer, London Borough of Bromley) is coming along to talk about the Daft Children’s Strategy for 2012 to 2015 and gain parental feedback on the proposals and priorities [...]

Last night Bromley Mencap won the Guardian Public Services Award for Carers, Families and Communities.   The article on Bromley Mencap’s Award features in today’s Guardian Society supplement and can be found here All the winners appear in today’s Guardian newspaper and can be found on-line here  For the full Press Release click here

Bromley Experts by Experience, a new user led organisation for Deaf and Disabled People and Carers in Bromley, is having an official launch. Date: 9th December 2011 Time: 11am – 3pm (Sign in from 10:30am) Location: Council Chamber, Civic Centre, 1 Stockwell Close, Bromley, BR1 3UH Bromley Experts by Experience (X by X) is a [...]

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available. If you can’t wait another minute to read it, then go to the blue bar above, click on “About”, then “Bulletin” and you’ll see the link to open the November / December 2011 Bulletin. There are also links there to previous issues, should you require any further information [...]

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available. If you can’t wait another minute to read it, then go to the blue bar above, click on “About”, then “Bulletin” and you’ll see the link to open the September/October 2011 Bulletin. There are also links there to previous issues. Enjoy.

OK – it’s not in Bromley, but Selby in Yorkshire has a town councillor with a learning disability, a man called Gavin Harding. David Congdon, Mencap’s head of campaigns and policy, took part in a BBC Radio York discussion about Gavin. The link takes you to BBC iPlayer and you can hear David’s interview is [...]

Today we launch this new website. To tell the truth, it’s been up for a few weeks as we tinkered with it and added the content, but the May-June Bulletin exposes the site to the world for the first time. We hope you like it. This home page is a blog, and will change – [...]

The latest Bromley Mencap newsletter is out today. For those of you who subscribe by post, it should be hitting your doormats in the next couple of days. But if you just can’t wait … you can download a pdf version from this link Previous copies of the Bulletin are available from this page

Royal Mencap’s current chair, Brian Baldock, is retiring on 18 May and will be replaced by Jim Glover. Here is Royal Mencap’s blog entry.

News about some current campaigns. Disability Living Allowance consultation response Every Disabled Child Matters Hardest Hit march Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilties (PMLD) Click on the link below to learn more

Bromley Scope and Bromley Mencap have joined together and become one organisation. This comes as Bromley Mencap celebrates its 60th Diamond Jubilee Year.

I hope you can tell by the title of this post that this site is under construction. In time, announcements will be made in all the major news media (well, perhaps not all of them), but you’re more than welcome to keep up with our progress. We work with people with a learning disability and [...]