Each year Surrey Choices celebrates Learning Disability Week, hosted by Mencap. Learning Disability Week is a great way to raise the awareness of learning disability across the UK. This year the week is taking place from Monday 15 June – Sunday 21 June and the theme of the week is “The importance of friendships during…
During the pandemic Surrey Choices continues to offer a range of services across Surrey, to support vulnerable people each day in safe environment. At Surrey Choices, we have been offering our Shared Lives respite service (albeit at a reduced capacity) and Supported Employment Service, EmployAbility. Our 22 day services across the county could not continue…
‘A Message from Mette Le Jakobsen, Managing Director – Tuesday 2 June 2020 With most lockdown precautions ongoing, Surrey Choices is continuing to support disabled and vulnerable people across Surrey. Our greatest priority is the safety and welfare of the people we support, their families and the fantastic teams of people who work for us.…
Welcome to Issue 2 of Surrey Choices News. Inside this newsletter you can find out all about what has been happening around Surrey Choices and the exciting things ahead for the people we support and our staff. Did you miss our first newsletter in November 2019? Click here to see Issue 1 We hope you…
Recently the board of Surrey Choices held its first ever virtual board meeting. One of the reports presented by the Executive Team was about how Surrey Choices has responded to the Coronavirus crisis. Surrey Choices Board Members were impressed with how staff have been coping and adjusting to supporting people and communities. Board Chair, Councillor…
Adjusting to a new day to day due to the Coronavirus for an autistic person. T has high functioning aspergers. He is in his first year of college, studying Engineering. Since the Governments decision on ‘lockdown’ to the UK, T tells us how it has impacted his day to day life. In the space of…
Disabled Adults visit Summers Nursing Home to teach elderly people sign language Disabled Adults who attend Surrey Choices Nexus Activity Centre have had the exciting opportunity to work with Summers Nursing Home on two occasions in the last year. Since then, Nexus has planned to give regular workshops to the elderly people so they can…
