Mencap

Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, and their families and carers.

We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Our work includes:

• providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose,
• providing advice through our helplines and websites,
• campaigning for the changes that people with a learning disability want.

We are an individual membership organisation, with a local network of more than 500 affiliated groups. Our work is shaped by what our members tell us about their needs and wishes.
 
We work with people with a learning disability to change laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support thousands of people to live their lives as they choose.

We do so many different things. For example:

• we support people with a learning disability to get a job or take a college course, or we can help them find a place of their own to live in,
• we offer advice about things like respite care, individual budgets or transport services,
• we run residential/day care services and leisure groups that are so important to so many people with a learning disability, and their families and supporters,
• we support people with a learning disability to be part of their local communities,
• we lobby the government to change laws so that more and more people with a learning disability can have control over their own lives.