At the moment, Mencap Cymru runs two externally funded projects, aimed at promoting inclusion, the accessibility of communities and the wellbeing of people with a
learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
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Some of our completed projects.
Read about some of the completed projects we have delivered in the last few years:
Citizen Curators, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Citizen Curators was a Heritage Lottery funded project that worked with three Network Partners in Wales; Chepstow Mencap, Mencap Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire Mencap.
Between 2022 and 2024 the groups recorded the oral history of their
organisations
Organisations are groups like companies and businesses.
and curated exhibitions open to the public. Mencap Cymru administered the project and provided support to the groups from previous
experience
Experience is when you have learned or tried something before.
running heritage projects.
Our Social Networks, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Our Social Networks was a National Lottery Heritage Fund project. Inspired by the stories heard during the Hidden Now Heard project (below), we wanted to explore the differences in the social and romantic lives experienced by people with a learning disability in the years since the long-stay hospitals closed.
Over three years, the project collected over 40 oral histories between people with a learning disability and their friends or romantic partners. We also worked with four regional museums across Wales to create an
accessible
Accessible means something is easy for people to use or join in with. For example: Accessible writing means the writing is easy to read and understand.
museum animation.
Hidden Now Heard, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Hidden now Heard, was a Heritage Lottery-funded project, which showcased the hidden heritage of people with a learning disability in Wales. Between 2014 and 2017 the project captured the hidden and often painful living memories of former residents and staff from six of Wales’ long-stay hospitals.
Working in partnership with the National History Museum, the project created exhibitions focusing on local long-stay hospitals by giving voice to former patients and staff, when previously they were silenced.
For more information about the project, contact: paul.hunt@mencap.org.uk.
Tackling hate crime - Keep Safe Cymru
Keep Safe Cymru was a joint project between Mencap Cymru & South Wales Police designed to make people more aware of their personal safety, to encourage reporting of crime (especially
hate crime
A hate
crime
A crime is when someone does something wrong and breaks the
law
Laws are the rules that everyone in the country has to follow. If you don't follow the rules you can get in trouble with the police.
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is when someone is hurt or bullied because of things like: their disability or their
religion
Religion is to do with the things you believe about the world. For example you may believe there is a god or something else. Examples of religions are Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.
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) and to seek help if they need it.
The scheme allowed people with a learning disability to share information about how they communicate with the police, as well as having access to a dedicated phone-line should they need to contact them.