About Southampton Mencap
What is Southampton Mencap?
What does Southampton Mencap do?
Where is Southampton Mencap based?
Who are the trustees and committee members of Southampton Mencap?
Who are the employees of Southampton Mencap?
What are the key aims and objectives of Southampton Mencap?
- A local voluntary organisation with company status.
- Although affiliated to Royal Mencap, the Society is totally financially independent. and takes full responsibility for ensuring that resources are available to fund all activities.
What does Southampton Mencap do?
- It seeks to improve the lives of people of all ages with learning disabilities and their families or carers living in Southampton.
- It provides a variety of services including a wide range of age appropriate leisure activities for children/young people and adults, summer programme of activities, open meetings/carers lunches, and information and advice
- Works with statutory authorities and other voluntary organisations to identify and deliver services and to monitor, assess and research gaps in services.
- Advocates and campaigns with and on behalf of people with learning disabilities.
Where is Southampton Mencap based?
The Southampton Mencap Office:
Southampton Mencap, 187a Portswood Road
Southampton SO17 2NF
The society has its own large purpose built Centre in Portswood which is used as the base for most activities. In addition, Southampton Mencap manage a variety of projects, and Summer Schemes, which are based off site.
Mencap Centre Garden.
Who are the trustees and committee members of Southampton Mencap?
Officials:
Chair person: Jennifer Strevens
Secretary: Dee Kushlick-Williams
Trustees:
Jennifer Strevens
Brian Strevens
Kay Labon
Edwin Leach
Richard Pearce
Dee Kushlick-Williams
Heather Christiansen
The Mencap staff team is as follows:
| Manager: | Alex Iles |
Administrative Officer: |
Suzanne Biggs |
Mencap Development Worker: |
Jenny Hustler |
Family Link Worker: |
Jane Gleeson |
Opening Doors Co-ordinator: |
Sarah Fawcett |
Parent Partnership Co-ordinator |
Gwen Harrison |
Parent Partnership Co-ordinator |
Rob Hendry |
We also employ approximately 25 Support Workers for our:-
Social Clubs || Summer Activities || Opening Doors Service
and have up to a twenty volunteers involved within the organisation.
- Directly provide social activities for people of all ages with a learning disability which maximise their opportunity for inclusion in a meaningful manner.
- Respond to the needs of families of people with a learning disability in a flexible and appropriate manner and enable them to have short breaks from their caring responsibilities.
- Deliver timely, appropriate and up-to-date information and advice on a range of issues relating to learning disability.
For a full list of Mencap's aims and objectives, click here
What keeps Southampton Mencap going? A great deal of effort from a large number of people, the members, the trustees, paid staff and volunteers. If you would like to give some time to help as a volunteer, perhaps within our clubs or schemes or through other talents you have, or if you are interested in joining Southampton Mencap as a member, please see our What We Do page, or contact the staff at the Mencap Centre. Back to top of page