Tag: Mencap

Hachette UK’s Accessibility network signs partnership with Mencap

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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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