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East Kent Mencap’s GOLD project has been helping to train nurses at Canterbury Christchurch University. Members of GOLD, which is short for Getting On with Learning Disabilities, are all people with a learning disability in Thanet who receive little or no support. East Kent Mencap started working with the university in 2012, initially with student nurses. Students

We have two rooms available for people with a learning disability in our four bedroom bungalow in Swale: Halfway Bungalow. The property has two kitchens, a bathroom, dining room, living room, wet room, large fenced garden, and beautiful views over the fields. East Kent Mencap supports people to live within the community and become as

This week our Thanet Day Resources have launched their transport service for people with a learning disability. Using the charity’s brand new minibus, people will be picked up from their home addresses throughout Thanet, including Broadstairs, Margate, and Ramsgate, and driven to the Day Resource of their choice, being then dropped off home at the

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to our Pre-Loved Clothes Fair on Saturday 25th January at our Ramsgate Day Resource in Meeting Street! Over 50 bags of quality pre-loved clothes were donated in the weeks leading up to the fair, including designer items and brand new items still

Our next Pre-Loved Clothes Fair is happening this Saturday! Come to our Ramsgate Day Resource in Meeting Street, Ramsgate (CT11 9RT) and have a rummage through the amazing array of pre-loved clothes we have had donated. Research has found that there is a collective £13 billion worth of unwanted clothing in the cupboards and wardrobes

We would like to say a huge thank you to the five runners who have stepped forward to run the Vitality Half Marathon on Sunday 1st March in London, raising funds for East Kent Mencap! East Kent Mencap applied for 5 marathon spaces for this iconic marathon and we were overwhelmed by the response we

This Christmas time, the team at East Kent Mencap would like to say the biggest THANK YOU to all our volunteers, donors, fundraisers and supporters. The most valuable present we have received this year is your enthusiastic support, and we could not do what we do – providing opportunities for adults and children with a

The Time to Change Employer Pledge is a commitment to changing the way we all think and act about mental health in the workplace. Over 1,200 organisations, employing over 2 million people, are now involved. On Thursday 19th December 2019, CEO Jason Gerlack signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge on behalf of East Kent Mencap

Our GOLD (Getting On with Learning Disabilities) group have a social group that meet weekly at Weatherspoons in Ramsgate. Some of the members in the group had seen that Ramsgate was building a new Fire Station and we wondered if we could visit it. After contacting Christian Redmond at Kent Fire Service, GOLD arranged a