Topic “Projects for People with Disabilities”

Network provides a safe social environment for the adults who have Asperger's Syndrome who can feel isolated or lacking in social skills. Volunteers need to be able to talk to the members over a drink.
Training support and help ar eprovided by the National Autistic Society.

If you 're looking for a fun way of spending a Saturday afternoon then this is the project for you! Adults with learning difficulties, and students, participate in activities for this project. Sometimes we go out on excursions, and past activities have included trips to the cinema, bowling, the zoo and the Old Vic and Longleat Safari Park.

This project aims to offer extra help to swimming classes and hydrotherapy sessions for children with special needs. We work with various schools which take children swimming each week. The children often require one-to-one attention; therefore the schools desperately need volunteers to enable as many kids as possible to swim each time.

This is a befriending scheme for people aged 16 to 25 with physical disabilities. It aims to enable the young people to build a social network of non-disabled friends. It is a great way for disabled adults and volunteers to meet people of a similar age and experience new things such as going bowling, or to the zoo.