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Please take a look at Speak Out’s June Newsletter. Find out what the Speak Out team have been up to over the past couple of months and information about our services.

Helen   Why do you volunteer? When I retired I moved to Brighton and I was looking for opportunities to volunteer. I felt I wanted to offer to get involved with one or two of the many organisations in Brighton, looking for people to help them in their programmes. I wanted to volunteer for community … Read more

We want to hear about life after lockdown for people with learning disabilities. How do you feel about going out? Do some things seem a bit scary? You can do our survey here https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7GZSKXT

Please take a look at the last Partnership Board Meeting Minutes. Partnership Board Meeting Minutes April 2021 The Partnership Board is where people with learning disabilities, service providers, charities, parent-carers and managers from the council meet together. They talk about how they can plan services and make changes so that the city is a better … Read more

A huge thank you to Harry Venning for joining us at Speak Out East Zoom Drop-in last Thursday. Harry shared his skills as a cartoon artist with easy to follow steps.  We learnt how to draw happy faces, sad faces, angry faces and more.  We created cartoon people, animals and even our own alien! Here … Read more

Please take a look at Speak Out’s March Newsletter. Find out what the Speak Out team have been up to over the past couple of months and information about our services.

To help people with a learning disability and family carers let GP’s know about the Reasonable Adjustments that will support people to have the Covid-19 Vaccination, Amaze, PaCC and Brighton & Hove Health Facilitation have developed a form. You can download the form here: Covid Vaccination Reasonable Adjustments Easy Read

Last night, Speak Out had their very first online AGM. There were staff, volunteer, Trustees and most importantly Speak Out Members. This year the AGM was much smaller, shorter and unfortunately there was no ceilidh dancing or buffet. This relaxed event provided an opportunity to hear about Speak Out’s work in 2019 and what we … Read more

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The Tuesday drop in group have created handy tips on self-help and how to keep yourself busy during lockdown. Each week tips will be shared, but if you can’t wait, you can have a look online at all the advice the Tuesday group have put together in their help sheets. This weeks tips are: Watch … Read more