Mencap Strule Buzz Group

24/07/2025

🪩 Get Ready for the next Mencap NI Disco! 🪩
Are you ready to dance the night away at the Glenavon Cookstown? 🕺💃
Well then come along on Thursday 28th August! 🎉

Whether you want to show off your best moves, make new friends, or just relax and chill, we have plenty of space to mix, mingle, and make this an unforgettable evening! 🌟

❗️This is an OVER 18s ONLY event. ❗️

Entry is £7 (free entry for supporters)

For more information, get in touch with Emma emma.harte@mencap.org.uk

21/07/2025

Would you like to be involved with being a member of the Voices Council for Mencap in Northern Ireland? You can volunteer and have a say on what is important for you living with a learning disability. The Voices Council advise Mencap's Board of Trustees to help them make your important decisions that you raise. If you want to be a member please scan the QR code, or contact the number that is on the attached image....

15/07/2025

Please come along and support this worthwhile cause....you don't have to have a dog to take part🐶🐕, but it would help if you did. Mencap NI Youth SkyzdalimitOmagh

Please come and support Mencap NI Youth Youth Empower 2 Transform in omagh by joining us on our Charity Dog Walk at Hospital Road Community Centre in Omagh on Saturday 19th July at 11 am

The young people in our Empower 2 Transform omagh are raising money to support the Reach Foodbank project in Omagh which provides families in need in Omagh with a enough food for 5 days.

https://m.facebook.com/ltcoutreac

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council Mencap Strule Buzz Group SkyzdalimitOmagh My Omagh. Come along and support our young people supporting others.

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11/07/2025

Please come and support Mencap NI Youth Youth Empower 2 Transform in omagh by joining us on our Charity Dog Walk at Hospital Road Community Centre in Omagh on Saturday 19th July at 11 am

The young people in our Empower 2 Transform omagh are raising money to support the Reach Foodbank project in Omagh which provides families in need in Omagh with a enough food for 5 days.

https://m.facebook.com/ltcoutreac

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council Mencap Strule Buzz Group SkyzdalimitOmagh My Omagh. Come along and support our young people supporting others.

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11/07/2025

❓Have you ever been involved with Mencap NI? ❓
We want to hear from you! 📣

We are Inclusion Consultants (Research) and we have created a survey to find out what you think about Mencap NI.

We would like to hear your feedback and stories. All ideas and comments are welcome!

Your responses will be taken into account to help make Mencap NI better.

If you complete the survey, you could win a £20 voucher. We have 2 to giveaway.

Click the link below to complete the survey 👇 – it will only take around 10 minutes.

https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90839831/Mencap-NI-Impact-Survey

11/07/2025

📢 Last night, MPs voted to pass the Universal Credit Bill, including deeply concerning cuts to the health element for disabled people starting a new Universal Credit claim in 2026.

🗣️Chief Executive Officer, Jon Sparkes OBE told The Mirror: “By pushing ahead with these cuts, the Government will condemn disabled people with the most complex needs to poverty and a lifetime of existing rather than living.”

The good news, the Bill no longer affects Personal Independence Payments (PIP), and the short title of the bill has changed to the "Universal Credit Bill" to reflect this. The Government announced that any changes to the PIP eligibility criteria will now be delayed until after the review led by Sir Stephen Timms is complete.

We welcome that the Government has committed to meaningful co development with disabled people through the Timms Review, expected in Autumn 2026. The Minister has assured us that a working group will be set up to ensure lived experience is at the heart of any changes.

Jon added, "It’s important the Government is committed to listening to the needs of disabled people in reforming the PIP system. People with a learning disability should be at the heart of these reforms and we welcome today's commitment and reassurance that this will happen.”

Read the full article here:
https://brnw.ch/21wU2GN

04/07/2025

The Disabled People’s Parliament is back for 2025. Have your say on what issues you want it to focus on.

It will take place on Friday 21 November 2025 in the Assembly Chamber in Parliament Buildings. It will be an opportunity for people with disabilities to have their say on issues and decisions that affect their lives.

For more information, click below:

https://www.niassembly.gov.uk/dpp

04/07/2025

Make your voice count in the Disabled People's Parliament that will be held in November at the Parliament buildings, Belfast... It's an opportunity for the learning disabled to have their say and put their issues/concerns into action

The Disabled People’s Parliament is back for 2025. Have your say on what issues you want it to focus on.

It will take place on Friday 21 November 2025 in the Assembly Chamber in Parliament Buildings. It will be an opportunity for people with disabilities to have their say on issues and decisions that affect their lives.

For more information, click below:

https://www.niassembly.gov.uk/dpp

29/06/2025

28/06/2025

🚨 Personal Independent Payment (PIP) cuts update

The Government has appeared to agree to protect current PIP claimants, a relief for thousands of people with a learning disability who’ve been living in fear about what the future holds. But we need to see PIP protected for those who need it in the future.

💬 Jackie O'Sullivan, Mencap Executive Director of Strategy and Influence, said: “We are encouraged that campaigners have been heard in their opposition to the planned cuts. But we fear that if, from next year, new claimants for PIP face different rules, there will be a generational divide in the quality of life for people with a learning disability.”

From next year, people who have not claimed PIP before could face different rules, creating an unfair two tier system. Cutting disability benefits is not the way to fix public finances.

Read more about what we think of this here https://brnw.ch/21wTJle

23/06/2025

21/06/2025