Like us on Facebook and we’ll donate £500 to The Co-operative Charity of the Year!
To celebrate February, the month of love, we will donate £500 to the Co-operative charity of the year, Mencap, if 500 people 'Like' us on Facebook by the end of the month!
They 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.
For example:
They 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.
They offer advice about things like respite care, individual budgets or transport services.
They 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.
They support people with a learning disability to be part of their local communities.
They lobby the government to change laws so that more and more people with a learning disability can have control over their own lives.
The Co-operative has chosen Mencap and sister charity ENABLE Scotland as its Charity of the Year partners for 2011. The money raised will be used for the ‘Inspire Me’ project, which will change the lives of 20,000 young people with a learning disability to transform their lives through a range of volunteering, employment and community involvement opportunities.
Some facts about learning disability:
People with a learning disability find it harder than others to learn, understand and communicate.
A learning disability is caused by the way the brain develops before, during or shortly after birth. It is always lifelong.
A learning disability is not mental illness.
There are 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK.
75% of GPs have received no training to help them treat people with a learning disability.
Most people with a learning disability are treated as ‘different’. They do not have the same control over their own lives as the rest of our society.
8 out of 10 children with a learning disability are bullied.
200 children in the UK are born with a learning disability every week.
Young people with a learning disability are amongst the most excluded people in our society.
Where the money will go
A donation of £500 could buy a special mobile seating system to help young people with physical and learning disabilities to move around freely and interact with their surroundings.
So like our Facebook page, and be sure to recommend The Co-operative Motor Group to your friends. With just one click you can help change the life of someone with a disability.
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
