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Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE)

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a well established programme of challenges open to young people from Year 9 in school. Young people have until the age of 25 to complete their Award. The DofE is not an organisation but a programme of challenging leisure and free time activities to aid in a young...

FarmBuddies (Farm Buddies)

FarmBuddies, a Not For Profit Social Enterprise, acts as a Community Connector arranging for accompanied individuals/small groups to visit farms in the local area one day a week to do a variety of regular farm jobs, including animal care, according to age, choice and ability; all under farmer...

Ferring Country Centre

Ferring Country Centre is a local independent charity that provides meaningful training and work experience the people with learning difficulties. Our clients develop work and social skills by assisting us with operating the riding therapy unit, our garden centre, cafe, small animal farm and...

Find It Out (FindItOut)

If you are aged 13-25 you can drop into a FindItOut based within one of our family hubs to get advice and information from one of our friendly team. Locations and opening times can be found on Find a Family Hub. If you want to talk to someone in confidence you just need to pop in or complete...

Flamingoes swimming club

Crawley Flamingoes is a swimming group for individuals 18+ with physical and learning disabilities and has operated from Crawley Leisure Centre and K2 Crawley for over 40 years The club meets every Tuesday evening between 7.45-8.45pm. We provide a regular session for people with either a...

Gig Buddies - Stay Up Late

Gig Buddies is a volunteer befriending scheme that matches young adults with learning disabilities and/or autism with a volunteer friend who enjoys the same cultural activities as they do. This could be going to see live bands but could also be anything from watching football matches to visiting...

Impact Iniatives - Independent Advocacy...

Impact’s Advocacy services help people to have a voice in important issues in their lives. Staff and volunteers assist people in getting independent advice, knowing their rights, working out what they want to say, speaking at meetings and talking to professionals. We work with people who have a...

Inclusive Online Activities

We run Zoom sessions for people with learning disabilities in Drumming, Dance, Animals, Music/Singing, Cooking and many more. Our sessions are fun, engaging, build relationships and grow self confidence.

In Control Youth

The purpose of In Control Youth (ICY) is to encourage and support the involvement of young people involved in services in advocating for their rights in their localities and across United Kingdom. ICY operate as a community network, working for change and to provide people with the knowledge,...

Independent Lives

Independent Lives provides a range of support for families and carers of disabled children to enable them to lead full, active and independent lives. Our core work focuses on providing a Direct Payments support service.

Invisible Ink Books

Through multi-media creative writing workshops, Invisible Ink Books works with young people with reading and writing difficulties to find their inner author and help put their ideas in print. For our most promising authors, we hope to forge a long term relationship to help develop and promote...

LIMA

A low intensity approach around issues relating to people’s autism spectrum condition. Our support focuses on post diagnostic and social skills that covers issues people may experience on a daily basis. Some of our support is free to access. Some customers are asked to contribute to support -...