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Learning Disabilities 100 Day Challenges Launch Event – Part 2 – 21st April 2021: 10 am to 1 pm. Calling all who care about the future of support to people with learning disabilities in Royal Greenwich Join our online event to launch three 100-day challenges to design day opportunities together Wednesday 21st April 2021 10 am to 1 pm Who is it for? Adults with a learning disability Carers and families…

ABLEize is a non profit disability and special needs online directory run by disabled people and offering the largest collection of local and national hand-picked resources highlighting many services under one easy to find roof. Find disability support, sports, education and the arts through to care resources, disability information, products and much more.  Created in 2006 ABLEize builds on a daily bases to ensure the most up to date information and services are available to disabled and special needs people, their carer’s and family. As well as providing…

Free, friendly physical activity sessions in your local community for Greenwich residents over 50. Classes include: Exercise to Music (50+), Fitness for 50+, Tai Chi, Sit and Get Fit, Line Dancing and Nordic Walking. Just turn up at your chosen session, fill out a form and you are ready to go. Active for Health is commissioned by Public Health and Wellbeing, Royal Greenwich. Call or visit the website below for more information. We offer a range of sessions and the timetables for different venues can be found…

Support young people from the BME by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities. Advance education and Provide recreational and leisure time activities. We are a local approach to cross policy for young people and bring them together with youth related policy makers, and set out shared vision for how young people will be supported to make responsible and active citizens and to improve their lives, and family cohesion. Active Horizons seeks to meet the changing needs of young people, particularly from the BME, migrant and refugee communities, by assisting them in…

Based on the Goldie Leigh site are the Adult Learning Disability (ALD) service manager, ALD central administrative team, business and service improvement manager, modern matron, nurse consultant/joint clinical director and transport service. These services are available Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCA) help people who are assessed to lack capacity about medical treatment or where they live, and have no family or friends who are willing to represent their views. This can include: People with dementia or mental ill health People with learning disabilities People with physical disabilities People who have had a stroke People who have acquired brain injuries People who are unconscious or in…

Advocacy In Greenwich wants everybody to have rights, choices and chances; be able to say what they want and be heard and to be part of the community. We will work together with people with learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities to change the way people think so that we can make this happen. We offer: 1 to 1 advocacy Self Advocacy Groups Accessible training about  your rights for people with a certain learning diability Accessible training for staff that work in services Volunteering and paid work…

Elected MPs represent the views of all people with learning disabilities in Greenwich. Citizen Forums and Surgeries give people an opportunity to find out what is going on in Greenwich and London and to talk about how services can be improved. Meetings take place at different venues to make sure that everyone has access them.

To help prepare and encourage young people and adults from the African community to integrate into British Society without any barriers. To support them in crisis. To contribute to the local area and African community development.

African and African-Caribbean Counselling is culturally sensitive to meet the mental health needs and individual differences of Black people. We aim to match you as best we can with a counsellor who speaks the same language/dialect or comes from the same cultural background. Besides English, we can provide counselling in Yoruba, Igbo/Ibo, Jamaican Patwa, etc. We acknowledge that prejudice, discrimination, poverty, homophobia, childhood and present life experiences can affect an individual’s mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Our…