Held at Salisbury Guildhall on Saturday, January 31 2026, the event was looked forward to by the local learning-disabled community and their carers.

As it is a new shop opening, people are encouraged to support the Ely Mencap shop by bringing in donations of clothes, bags and shoes that are in a good condition. The shop will open at 10am on ...

Organise a Mencap One Big Walk this September and help raise funds for the 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK. Whether you walk alone or with friends, family or colleagues, the ...

Mencap has raised concerns over whether learning disabled athletes will be able to compete at the 2012 Paralympics because of a lack of funding for training. The warning came after the International ...

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UK charity Mencap – which works with people with learning disabilities – has just acquired a new ambassador, the English comedian and actor Mathew Horne, who will help promote awareness of learning ...

Kit Harington has opened up about his cousin Laurent, who has Down's syndrome. Last month, Harington was announced as an ambassador of Mencap; a leading UK organisation for people with learning ...

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Local authorities are failing to meet the future housing needs of thousands of people with a learning difficulty who are living at home with elderly parents, a major survey of local authorities has ...

UK charity Mencap has sold its long-term London headquarters for an undisclosed sum and is preparing to move to a new site for the first time in 50 years.

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and its automation software supplier have helped Mencap to remove the risks of embarking on an automation project, which ultimately led to the learning disability ...