Mencap

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Mencap is a UK charity. It works with people with learning disabilities.

Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers. Mencap works collaboratively, fighting for equal rights, campaigning for greater opportunities and challenging attitudes and prejudice.

Mencap provides advice and support to meet people's needs throughout their lives, as an individual membership organisation with a local network of more than 1,000 affiliated groups. Mencap's work is membership-driven.

Mencap provides help and support through supported living, supported employment, respite services, organised activities, systemic and individual advocacy, and outreach support.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Learning Disability Helpline website - Ask Mencap
• A Young Entrepreneur's Mencap Fundraising Website