Charity launches campaign for Learning Disability Awareness Week

Walton Lea Partnership helps support more than 70 adults with additional needs, providing interesting and stimulating opportunities to help develop life skills.

One of the opportunities available to the 24 to 64-year-olds supported by the charity is a media team, which is currently made up of nine adults.

As part of this group, they can express themselves creatively and learn how to produce newsletters among other forms of media.

As part of Learning Disability Awareness Week, the group officially launched their See Me campaign, which aims to showcase their abilities – rather than their disabilities.

“Every little bit of this campaign they have got involved with,” said Jo Leah, support worker at Walton Lea and leader of the media group.

The media team launched the campaign for Learning Disability Awareness Week (Image: Walton Lea Partnership)

One of the ideas the group had as part of their campaign was to take pictures of themselves and hang them in a tree at Walton Hall to show how high they can ‘climb’ when pursuing their individual talents and skills.

“It’s their idea to put the pictures in the tree,” said Jo.

“It’s just wonderful creativity, they’re a fabulous group of people.

“They surprise you because they look at the world from a different angle.”

Moore Camera Club helped take the pictures at Moore Rugby Club, and each of the adults picked the props they wanted to use for the image and express themselves with.

The pictures can be seen at Walton Hall, as well as on social media as the campaign will be sharing the images throughout the week.