Helping Disabled Young Adults Live Their Best Lives
Our Mission
- Provide disabled young adults aged 15 plus with opportunities to enjoy their lives and have fun.
- Reduce frustrations of planning excursions for young disabled adults’ carers.
- Provide more age appropriate activities.
- Encourage the uptake of new hobbies and the strengthening of existing ones.
- Promote independence and normalise young adulthood in the disabled community.
- Combat the disadvantages young disabled people face and promote a level playing field of opportunities.
- Break down the barriers that stop disabled young adults from getting the most out of their lives.
- Arrange weekend and day trips, host regular accessible club nights, arrange trips to music festivals and provide sporting opportunities
Why are we doing this?
- To give other young disabled adults the opportunities that Freddie was lucky to have
- To ensure everyone gets to live their youth the way they want to
- We recognise and have experienced the frustrating barriers that keep disabled people from enjoying their lives to the max
- We recognise the lack of age appropriate activities available for young disabled adults once they hit their later teen years
- We feel there is not enough emphasis on the importance of quality, age appropriate leisure activities in the disabled community
- There is a perception around what disabled young people "should and shouldn't be doing" and that has to change
- Disabled people don't have the same opportunities to enjoy life and challenge themselves as they reach adulthood - yet they still have the same interests and social needs as the rest of the community.
How do we do this?
- Regular focus groups with disabled young people
- Addressing needs identified through client feedback
- Taking responsibility for ensuring events and activities are fully accessible
- Keeping costs low and enabling subsidy where possible
- Putting safeguarding at the forefront of everything we organise
- Risk assess events and activities in accordance with the law and our safety standards
- Prioritise our client group having fun and improving the quality of their lives
- No membership required - join on an individual event basis
Stained Glass Window Workshop
We are taking a small group to the Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability for a FREE stain glass window making workshop on 14th May from 11am!
Join us to meet new people and have your art displayed in their exhibition!
Transport can be provided. Get in touch to sign up!