Mencap aims to create over 50 apprenticeships in a new Data Academy

Mencap has launched a new training and development offer for its staff through a Data Academy, creating over 50 apprenticeships, including up to degree level. Starting in September, the training is being delivered by Multiverse, a tech company delivering high-quality training through applied learning. Multiverse has trained more than 16,000 apprentices in data and digital skills since 2016. Programmes will include the 13-month ‘AI for Business Value’ programme which trains apprentices to identify business value gains that can be achieved through using AI, giving apprentices the skills to leverage AI…

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Hachette UK’s Accessibility network signs partnership with Mencap

Hachette UK’s Accessibility Network, which supports those with disabilities & neurodiversities to create, to read, to access and to work, has announced a partnership with Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, to deliver talks, fundraiser activities and awareness-raising events starting from May 2021. The partnership aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of learning disability, by generating as much visibility of people with a learning disability as possible to reduce the everyday stigma and misunderstanding this group face. People with a learning disability face huge inequality every day of…

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Virgin Money and Mencap team up to bring people together through sport

Mencap, the learning disability charity, and Virgin Money are commencing their charity of the year partnership with a series of sport and inclusion events during Learning Disability Week (17-26 June 2019) which bring people with and without a learning disability together through sport. The year-long partnership includes Mencap being charity of the year for the 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon, the largest and most high-profile marathon in the world.  The fundraised income from the partnership will directly fund a programme in schools across the UK that bring young people with…

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