Links

  • Small Opportunities — The company run by Carol & Dafydd which offers supported living and age appropriate opportunities for adults with a learning disability.
  • Mencap — UK charity for people with a learning disability and their families.
  • Artspider — The Mencap arts website.
  • Down's Syndrome Association
  • Williams Syndrome Foundation
  • Special Friends Online — a free unique worldwide social networking website for people with Learning Disabilities and their parents, carers, volunteers, family members and professionals.
  • In Control — In Control’s mission is to help create a new welfare system in which everyone is in control of their lives as full citizens.
  • Supporting Independence — Supporting Independence is a stepping-stone for clients from residential care toward independent living.
  • Independent Living Fund — The ILFs provide cash payments to over 21,000 disabled people across the UK, allowing the choice to live inclusive and independent lives in their communities rather than residential care.
  • Heavy Load — Brighton's answer to The Ramones. A punk outfit subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band. But they're also uniquely, made up of musicians with or without learning disabilities.
  • Stay up late — A campaign for people with learning disabilities. Fighting for the right to party!
  • Values Into Action UK & Values Into Action Scotland — An organisation of people with and without learning difficulties working together for rights, equality and citizenship for all people with learning difficulties.
  • Oska Bright — Festival of short films made by people with a learning disability.
  • Carousel — Charity that facilitates people with a learning disability to reach their potential in the arts.
  • Akihito Ochi — A talented pianist who has Down Syndrome.
  • Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities — A charity which works to promote the rights, quality of life and opportunities of people with learning disabilities and their families. The website offers information and publications to download on research, good practice in services and on learning disability problems and key issues.
  • Watch Alphabeat perform live as well as other acts who appeared at the Little Noise Sessions 2009.
  • All you need to know about Mencap's Little Noise Sessions curated by Jo Whiley.