captains reach learning disability superheroes and Hi I'm Wayne
I am passionate about the benefits of volunteering and the inclusion of people with learning disabilities within their local community.
From our early days, volunteers have helped enhance the services we offer as a charity. These days you can find people helping in our 60+ weekly courses and socials, such as in cookery sessions, supporting with literacy and numeracy, or sharing gardening and DIY skills at our Flower Pod centres.
Volunteers help enhance our clients’ learning experiences and to increase the activities we can offer. Importantly, volunteers enable clients to build confidence in communicating with other local people, helping to grow stronger communities and social connectivity.
Over the past five years, funding from The National Lottery Community fund has enabled us to further develop volunteering at Reach through our All Part of Life project, and to further benefit from the strength and talents within our communities.
A key achievement has been empowering more adults with learning disabilities to volunteer both in Reach and the wider community – for example within local charity shops and environmental groups. We are very proud of how some people have gone above and beyond in their volunteering by becoming mentors and co-producers – you can find out more about this on our Voice and Participation page: Here.
To all our current and past volunteers, I would like to say a big THANK YOU for all you have helped us to achieve. To find out about volunteering, please email me at wayne.wilmot@reachuk.org or telephone me on 01636 819066.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Wayne