Thank you to everyone who attended our first ever charity golf day at Royal Wimbledon Golf Club on Thursday 18th June.
We raised nearly £15,000 from the day and think it was such a success, we are considering doing it again next year.
Please contact us if you are a golfer and would like to play or if your club hosts charity days and you think we should apply to be the benefitting charity next year!
Contact Kiera Ridge on 020 8246 5200 or email her at kiera.ridge@unitedresponse.org.uk
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Response to the Learning Disability employment strategy: Valuing Employment Now
We have made a response to Valuing Employment Now:
We warmly welcome the publication of Valuing Employment Now, the cross-government learning disability employment strategy.
We particularly welcome the ambitious target of increasing employment levels to those of other disabled people by 2025, which implies an almost 5 fold increase in the proportion of people with a learning disability in work. We very much hope that this will be the start of much greater priority being given to employment across agencies working with people with learning disabilities.
From our experience of working with people with learning disabilities we know employment can make an enormous contribution to people's quality of life and social inclusion, as well as having financial benefits.
Read the full response on our website
We warmly welcome the publication of Valuing Employment Now, the cross-government learning disability employment strategy.
We particularly welcome the ambitious target of increasing employment levels to those of other disabled people by 2025, which implies an almost 5 fold increase in the proportion of people with a learning disability in work. We very much hope that this will be the start of much greater priority being given to employment across agencies working with people with learning disabilities.
From our experience of working with people with learning disabilities we know employment can make an enormous contribution to people's quality of life and social inclusion, as well as having financial benefits.
Read the full response on our website
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Every Vote Counts! in Community Care magazine
Every Vote Counts! - the project United Response has been working on to help people with learning disabilities engage with the democratic procress has been featured in Community Care magazine.
Read the article in full on Community Care's website
Read the article in full on Community Care's website
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