Thank You from Dr Edel O’Neill
We are so #appreciative of the #positive #working #relationship #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange has with #Edel, #Consultant #Learning #Disability #Psychiatrist from the #Southern #Trust. She has really enjoyed being able to look around our #wonderful #estate and asked our #flower #workshop to arrange some beautiful #bouquets of flowers to say thank you to her #tour #guides, #Aimee, #Joanne and #Margaret. It is always a #pleasure to be able to #share the beautiful estate that we all live in.
Sharing Our Knowledge
Our #Registered #Manager, #Lizzy #Dixon, took time to #work in #partnership with #BASW (#British #Association of #Social #workers) to deliver a Continuing #Professional #Development #Seminar to a group of qualified Social workers from across the #UK #region. The seminar focused on the importance of working with people with #learning #disabilities as equal citizens and to #challenge current #systems that rely on labelling people with differences who are at the margins of our #society. The importance of #inclusion from a #young…
Making New Connections
#Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange is delighted to establish a #new #connection to #promote and #sell the #beautiful things we make in our #workshops. We have just agreed an order of 50 #pens to be sold to #Northeast #Arc is a non-profit north of #Boston, MA that supports over 15,000 people with #disabilities or #autism each year. They have recently opened up a #gift #store, #parcels, that #exclusively sells items made by, or through #businesses owned by #people with disabilities or…
Tenant Participation in Mourne Grange
Representatives from the #Department for #Communities, #Trudy #Creane and #Dovile #Bagdonaite, visited #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange on the 15th #September to learn about the #wonderful #work we do to work #equally with the #people we #support to #inform #decision #making and #planning for the #future. They were accompanied by #Billy #McCreight from #Craigowan #Housing #Association. It’s wonderful to be able to share the great work we do and how important it is to genuinely work together with as a #whole…
A BIG thank you to ARC NI
Everyone in #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange wants to say a #BIG thank you to #ARC NI. You bring us together to #share, #celebrate and #challenge and make sure we are always looking to the #horizon and #promoting #change. We could not have managed without the support of ARC through these #difficult times with #COVID. We look forward to continuing to work together to achieve #real change for the #wonderful #family of #people with #learning #disabilities and the people who support…
Mourne Grange 50th Anniversary
Thank you to all of our #friends, #families and #Community #members who joined us for our 50th #Birthday #celebrations on the 1st of #September. In #August of 1971 a small group from #Camphill Community #Glencraig moved to #Mourne #Grange to start a new Camphill community for #adults with #special #needs. Since then Mourne Grange has continued to #grow and #flourish. Everyone enjoyed the birthday celebrations and it was a wonderful opportunity to share about the #history of Mourne Grange, how…
Learning Disabilities and Covid-19 Research
It has been a really #positive #opportunity for a number of our #residents in #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange to be directly involved in this #research #project which will hopefully ensure that the #voice of people with #learning #disabilities is part of the process of learning from the #pandemic and planning for the #future. A #team of #researchers from across the #UK have spoken to people with learning disabilities, and the people who support them, to #understand their #experiences during the…
A Letter From Action Renewables
A #Letter From #Action #Renewables Did you know that as a loyal customer, #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange have helped Action Renewables support the local community in the following ways during the last year? – Funded #Belfast #Food #Network with £10k to inform, engage and enable community groups on renewable #energy – #Sponsored the #Eco #Schools programme with £10k to help #young #people engage with #environmental #education and take action on #climate #change – #Creggan #Country #Park. We have provided in-kind…
Peer Networking
We also want to #celebrate the strength that we create through #peer #networking with other #organizations for example #ARC (#Association for #Real #Change). ARC supports many organization like #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange to come together and share about a whole range of issues. One example of this is supporting all of the #Safeguarding #Champions from across the region to share and learn from each other to ensure that we are all working together to support everyone to be safe. Camphill…
Learning Disability Week
This year #Learning #Disability #Week is from the 14th to the 21 of #June and as always we are delighted to get involved and share with all of the other people and services in #Northern #Ireland. It is important to #celebrate the #contributions that people with learning disabilities make to everyone’s lives, and #communities. In #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange we are very lucky to have a range of #wonderful work areas were everyone irrespective of level of ability is able…
