Our projects in Wales
Our projects aim to make Wales a better place to live for people with a learning disability.
Current Projects
Include Me
Details about Include Me
Ynys Môn Early Years Project
Mencap Cymru has been awarded a new grant by the National Lottery Community A community is the people and places in an area. Fund.
The National Lottery Community Fund has generously agreed to provide a grant of £100,000 over two years for our family support service A service gives people what they need, like healthcare services that help people when they are ill, and support services that give people support. to support over 200 families with children aged 0 - 11 who have additional learning needs on Ynys Môn .
Supporting families to provide the best start for children with additional learning needs on Anglesey.
Previous Projects
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: [email protected].
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
A crime is when someone does something wrong and breaks the law.
(especially
hate crime
A hate crime is when someone is hurt or bullied because of things like: their disability or their religion.
) 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.
