The management and staff of the Waitrose store in Enfield Chase have chosen Enfield Mencap as one of the charities they wish to support during January and February 2012 through their green charity token scheme
From 10th January to 6th February you can choose to give your support to Enfield Mencap by shopping at the store and placing your green token in the box with our details
Each time you shop you will get a token so the more visits you are able to make in the next few weeks the larger the donation Waitrose will make to Enfield Mencap
Shopping trolleys at the ready and off to
Waitrose 38-40 Windmill Hill, Enfield Chase EN2 7AS
See you there
Halloween Party on Monday 31st October 2011 at the Opportunity Centre.
Mark Goldring asks "Can you Inspire Me"
In October Mark Goldring, Chief Executive of Mencap (previously Royal Mencap) came to join in a new programme called “Inspire Me” This is part of a three year programme run by Mencap to promote volunteering by service users and to get young people interested in volunteerting to help young learning disabled adults in the community.
Enfield Mencap is proud to be one of the pilot sites and the FIRST ONE that Mark has ever visited.
After a tour of the Opportunity Centre Mark joined in a session facilitated by Mencap trainers. This one was really exciting and explored identifying aspirations, how to manage money and what happens when you go to vote. Service users and staff voted on their favourite food and drink and activities. You can guess where chocolate came on the list!
Mark spent a long time chatting with service users and staff and has promised to come back and visit us again soon
In the picture above you can see Mark chatting with Louis Baker while Georgina Lamb; Snehal Patel and Claire Walker have a serious chat about chocolate
Stars of the Screen and other service users meet local MP Andy Love
In October, Edmonton MP Andy Love visited the Opportunity Centre in Ponders End to meet the service users involved in the film “Give and Take”.
Andy had not been able to make the premiere at the Dugdale Centre in September and so wanted to come and meet the stars for himself.
A couple of weeks later Andy wrote on his blog: “we are unbelievably lucky to have such a fantastic resource (Opportunity Centre) at the centre of our community – one which the service users of Enfield Mencap would be lost without. When you make a visit like this you realise even more strongly why we must fight against any cuts to our local resources. So I’d say to the Government, it shouldn’t be about money; it should be about people”
Well said Andy and we are glad you are fighting our corner
When Andy visited the Opportunity Centre he was made really welcome by the service users who were disappointed that he had to leave before lunch!
In the picture below are just some of the team who met with Andy and showed him around the Centre:
Poting Wan; Deborah Aldridge; Sarah Arsalides; Louis Baker; Anita Grant; Victoria Langley; Gulshen Salahi, Andy Love Mohammed Elazarak, Aziz Khalidi (London Film Foundation) and Anna Pakouta (trustee)
We always love to receive visitors so please feel free to drop in and meet our team and see all the different things we get up to each day.
Launch of Give and Take
Throughout 2011 Enfield Mencap has been working with the London Film Foundation and Craig Park to produce a short film entitled “Give and Take”. The film explores what people understand by “philanthropy” and to see how it will impact on David Cameron’s Big Society. The film was the idea of Aziz Khalidi from London Film Foundation
The team of service users from Enfield Mencap, supported by staff, did lots of research on the internet, in libraries and interviewing members of the public to get a lot of the information that is explained in the film. The guys from Craig Park were behind the cameras and also involved in interviews. Everyone contributed to the editing and final production
Interviews to camera and off cameral were held with members of the public, representatives of Enfield Mencap and Craig Park Youth Club, Enfield Councillors and Members of Parliament
There was a pretigious press launch at the Dugdale Centre on 19th September
Give and Take will also air on the Community Channel
Pictured above are: Christian Odammten and Marcus Belgrave (Craig Park Youth Club) and Victoria Langley; David Collier; Louis Baker and Sarah Arsalides (Enfield Mencap)
We hope to be involved in another project with London Film Foundation in 2012 and are currently looking for funding to support that. We will also build on our relationship with Craig Park Youth Club and look for new ventures with them
