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Easy Read: Cloverleaf receiving funding from the National Lottery

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By Cloverleaf Comms Lead the way 13 December 2023

Cloverleaf celebrates after receiving £261,203 of National Lottery funding to support people with learning disabilities to develop positive relationships! 

Happy, Healthy, Relationships builds on a pilot delivered by Self Advocates in Kirklees and Calderdale over the last few years. It was developed with people with learning disabilities, their families and friends.

About our new project Cloverleaf Advocacy have been given some money from the National Lottery Community Fund. This money is to run our Happy Healthy Relationships project for the next 3 years. This project will run across Kirklees, Calderdale and Barnsley About Happy Healthy Relationships Kirklees Involvement Network ran small Happy Healthy Relationships courses in Kirklees and Calderdale. Calderdale Self Advocacy Network have also done lots of training around healthy relationships.

This training was written and delivered by local people with a learning disability. We delivered training to people with a learning disability, we looked at things like: • how to meet people, dating and meeting people online • staying safe in relationships and the law • what healthy and unhealthy

We also ran courses for families and carers. This helped them to support with a learning disability to have relationships. We held workshops and training for staff and community groups who work with people with a learning disability. After this work finished our self advocates wrote a report about what happened in the project. People told us they wanted proper courses to learn more about Healthy Relationships.

Happy Healthy Relationships 2024 We will run a 12 week courses for local people with a learning disability. They will learn lots of different things about relationships and how to stay safe. Suzi our Big Boss Says’ “This is an amazing project that has been several years in the making. We are thrilled to have been awarded funding from National Lottery to help us take Happy, Healthy, Relationships, to the next level. Our new course will start in the middle of 2024. This course build on the work we have already done.

David Self Advocate from Kirklees Involvement Network said: “Since we started our pilot project four years ago, we have worked hard to get a proper support for local people with a learning disability around sex and relationships.” These courses will help keep people safe; they will understand how to have safe relationships and keep safe online. The courses will give people lots of time to think about what they want out of relationships and get the right support." “It will give people with a learning disabilities the skills they need to stay safe and have long lasting relationships”

Steering Group To plan our project well we need to include local people with a learning disability. We are setting up a group to plan how our project will work. If you would like to be part of our group or know someone who would please contact us own: 01924 454875 Email: enquiries@cloverleafadvocacy.co.u

If you are interested in getting involved, please contact us on:

Phone: 01924 454875

Email: enquiries@cloverleaf-advocacy.co.uk

Or, if you are already engaged with our services, have a chat with the person you know best in Cloverleaf.

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