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New Training Cafe Provides Work Experience and Skills Building for Disabled People

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Active Lives now available in RBWM for FREE

Active Lives is a free, easy-to-use website designed to help people stay active, fit and healthy – without needing equipment or going to classes.

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Ability Catering's biggest event yet!

This festive season, the Ability Catering team stretched their catering skills providing freshly prepared food and snacks for their biggest event to date, preparing food for over 170 people.

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Emma’s fundraising dress up day

Emma, who works at the Birches runs an annual charity fundraiser, dressing up and working a whole shift in a festive outfit, for sponsorship, this year she has chosen motor neurone disease (MND).

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Working Together Toolkit A Guide to Involving People

We have developed a co-production guide. Highlighting ideas, approaches and the importance of ensuring opportunities are inclusive and accessible to a diverse group of people.

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Back to health, with flexible and friendly support

Back to health, with flexible and friendly support - Customer story, The Birches | Extra Care

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The Good Care Series - Communication and independence

Our next article focuses on improvements made to one of our residential care home environments, which have helped create a culture that supports communication and promotes independence.

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A special birthday celebration

Philip really enjoys a party. His plans to celebrate his birthday were disrupted when his poor health, led to a hospital stay. The team, were not about to let that get in the way of his celebrations.

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Wokingham is the best place to find work in the Southeast if you have a learning disability

Optalis and Wokingham Borough Council are proud to announce that Wokingham has ranked number one in the southeast and number two in the country on the ASCOF employment figures

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The Good Care Series - Improved community integration and choice

This article explores a recent re-organisation, to support a new direction for the Community Lives Service, to further improve the quality of provision for the people we support.