Conwy Connect for Learning Disabilities was set up in 1997 to help promote the rights of people with a learning disability living within the county of Conwy in North Wales. Our aims include ensuring people have equality of choice and opportunity in the community they live in. We provide an essential link between all stakeholders whilst keeping members up-to-date of relevant changes in learning disability services.
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The AGM was held on 29 November 2011 at the Colwyn Bay Cricket Club.
The Annual Report was agreed.
Sue Davies gave the financial report, for the period April 2010 – March 2011 which had been independently examined with a statements attached to that effect.
The election of the Management Committee was explained and Officers and committee
were agreed for 2012.
Information was given at the meeting on the progress of the “Moving On Solutions Group” and the role Conwy Connect will be taking. Further information on this will be available in the Moving On Bulletin.
This was followed by Jigsaw Puzzles; all in the winning team received a prize each.
Members had the opportunity to have a chat over supper
Planning for the future with older parent and carers. A report has been produced to view the report click Planning for the future report
The Conwy Connect AGM will be held on 29 November, 7.00pm at the Colwyn Bay Cricket Club for further information please contact the office
People with ASD use all kinds of services and businesses in Wales. We are aiming to raise awareness of ASD across all Wales. By having some understanding you can really help people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Visit to access some learning about ASD. This will only take a short amount of time but can make such a big difference to people with ASD. Your learning will be rewarded with a personalised certificate.
Click to download the flyer (Adobe PDF)
A copy of the Wales summary report and a copy of their press release. The full report can be downloaded from the EHRC website.
DHFI Wales launch press release ENGLISH
Wales Report (MS-Word Document)
Harassment EHR Easy Read version (Adobe PDF)
Equality & Human Rights Website (Adobe PDF)
The Moving-On Solutions group is a group of people who are working to develop new opportunities for social and leisure activities in the community. The aim is for these activities to be self-supporting so that they can carry on long term. This group has continued to meet monthly with representative from Conwy Connect attending. We have ensured that bulletins have been produced to communicate the discussions of the group, these have included:
Please contact Ramona on 01492 575374 or Sue on 01492 536486 if you require copy of the bulletins or any further information on the Moving On Solutions Group.
I have been overwhelmed at the demand for places at the new club and I wonder what all these people did on Tuesdays in the past. On the other hand, I am highly delighted that so many people want to join the new club. It is really pleasing that so many of you are interested and want to be involved in creative activities. To date I have received applications from over 40 service users who would like to come to the Tuesday sessions, when originally I only planned and budgeted for 12 people to attend!
Membership is now at capacity for our resources, but we don’t want to turn anyone away and will try to accommodate everyone, including the 15 support workers who will be staying with their service users for the sessions. We hope all of them will become fully involved in all our activities. As you will understand, to arrange activities for such a large number of people would be extremely difficult for the first session and so we have decided to use 13 September as an enrolment morning, with no sessional fee, just the £3 annual membership money if people decide to join. There will be the opportunity to get to know about each other and to see and try out some of the things they could be doing at the club in the future. It will also be a good time to suggest other things which members might like to do and which may be able to be arranged for you.
So it will be open house at St Paul’s Church, Craig y Don on Tuesday the 13 September between 10am and 12noon. To all those who have sent in an application for membership, do come along and have a chat, a drink and a biscuit and decide what you’d like to do on Tuesday mornings for the next few weeks. Myself and the volunteers look forward to meeting you all.
This open meeting will offer you an opportunity to hear:
The project will provide a client centred approach with a range of services for participants; to include practical support, advice and guidance to overcome barriers to enable people to move into training, volunteering or/and employment.
This service in Conwy aims to:
For further details please contact us by Phone/Fax: 01492 536486 or at our office, Conwy Connect, Bod Alaw, 10 Rivieres Avenue, Colwyn Bay. LL29 7DP. E-mail: conwy.connect@virgin.net Website: www.conwy-connect.org.uk
A selection of pictures from our PCP Training in September.
Recently we held our PCP Pop-In day on June 30 at our offices in Colwyn Bay. The day was a chance for people to drop-in to find out more about person centred planning, what it involves, how to get training and the chance to try out some exercises for yourself. We have posted some of the photographs from the day.
Conwy Connect working in partnership with Social Services held a special event on Tuesday 10 May. This event:
Thank you to all those who attended.
A census questionnaire form will be sent to every address within the UK early in March. It is important to identify if service users need support in filling in the census as it is an illegal offence not to fill the census. If service users need support, census 2011 staff are able to visit individuals within the home to support them in filling the census, the help line is 0300 0201 101. There will also be a carer’s guide to fill the census- to enable individuals who support Service Users to fill in the questionnaire on the service users’ behalf.
The census is vitally important for the County of Conwy as a community. All sorts of decisions are taken based on the statistics such as how much to fund Conwy as a local authority; every authority is given a sum of money for each individual that completes the census. This funding helps to financially support essential services such as Hospitals and other emergency services and so on. For more information please visit: www.census.gov.uk
Many thanks to all the people who attended our open meeting on Time Banking. Although we were a small group we had lots of suggestions and ideas, and plenty of actions to follow up. There seemed to be a lot of interest in this idea but we acknowledged that the first thing that needs to happen is another consultation event to ask our members what things they would like to offer to the Time Bank. We will be planning another event some time soon. Watch out for further updates coming soon. For more information on schemes nationwide please follow this link http://www.timebanking.org
People who received ACE (Adult & Continuing Education) and Moving On services were invited by Social Services to attend information sessions facilitated by Conwy Connect on 13 December 2010 and 17 January 2011. This was to inform people of the situation regarding ACE services. Conwy Connect would like to reassure all our members who attend the Disco that it will continue after March 2011 and will be co-ordinated by volunteers and Conwy Connect staff. The progress made will be monitored and reviewed every 3 months. The disco will have to become self-funding for it to continue. For more information please see our newsletter.
Conwy Connect took over the co-ordination of the Disco on 4 April, a lively and fun evening was had by all as usual. Thanks are extended to the group of volunteers that have come forward to help on nights of their choice. The summer dates for the Washington Disco will be:
