What your support can achieve:

Here are some important facts:

- 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability.

- 200 babies are born with a learning disability every week.

- 9 out of 10 people with a learning disability get bullied.

- There are more than 29,000 people with a severe or profound learning disability who live at home with carers aged over 70.

Please donate any amount you can and help.

- £25 - could help us to make the first visit to a family who have a newly-born child with a learning disability and desperately need advice and support.

- £50 - could pay for two young people with a learning disability to take part in our Gateway Award programme for a year (this is similar to the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme).

- £140 - would enable us to respond to ten calls on our freephone learning disability helpline this provides vital information and support to people with a learning disability and their families.

- £250 - could pay for 16 children who cannot speak to attend a special workshop where they can learn the Makaton sign language.

- £570 - could pay for the 16-week course we run for volunteers to train them to provide advice and support to families who have children with a learning disability.

Your donation to Mencap will make a real and lasting difference.

A learning disability affects the way someone learns, communicates or does some everyday things. That learning disability can continue all through their life.

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Link: mencap.org.uk