What we do

Mencap is the voice of learning disability.

We work with people with a learning disability to change laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support thousands of people to live their lives as they choose.

We do so many different things. For example:

• We support people with a learning disability to get a job or take a college course, or we can help them find a place of their own to live in.
• We offer advice about things like respite care, individual budgets or transport services.
• We run residential/day care services and leisure groups that are so important to so many people with a learning disability, and their families and supporters.
• We support people with a learning disability to be part of their local communities.
• We lobby the government to change laws so that more and more people with a learning disability can have control over their own lives.

There isn't room to list everything we do here, but there's much more on the rest of our site, or you can download copies of our annual report.

You can also find out more about the different work Mencap does on our other websites:

• Young Mencap - Mencap's website for young people aged 13-19
• Art Spider - our arts website for people with a learning disability and anyone working in the arts