Journey Enterprises provides day services and specialist programmes for adults with learning disability. We support conditions from birth which impact intellectual ability, such as Down’s, cerebral palsy, Fragile X, Prader-Willi, Sotos and Smith-Magenis.
The Charity was founded in 1983 and has four day centres in the north east. These are Blyth and Hexham (Northumberland), Newcastle (Tyne & Wear) and Coundon (County Durham). We are shortly opening a fifth site in Newcastle.
Chosen by the House of Lords in 2021 as one of fifteen organisations providing ‘best practice’, the Charity regularly campaigns regionally and nationally. Whether this is to improve the lives of people with learning disability, to effect change in the Social Care Sector or the wider Voluntary Sector, the Charity’s campaigning is mirrored in some of our specialist programmes.
These include:
– Women’s Journey, a programme focusing on change in the care support planning systems and greater voice for women with learning disability,
– I Can be Canny, a digital and financial inclusion programme,
– Working Journeys, our flagship employability programme, Our Journeys, a programme to bring together recently settled communities without working knowledge of social care and systems to support families,
– I Can Live Well, a programme tackling inaccessibility of health services and avoidable early mortality in adults with learning disability and
– Access Able, a programme tackling inaccessibility in the built environment and in wider statutory services.
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