Posted on Friday 29 November 2013
Lakeland Family Service is extremely proud of 6 young people who have recently completed their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award. The young people (Jordan Watson, Ciaran McGovern, Kirsty Hoey, Aoife McGerty and Chloe Monaghan) are all supported by the Service, and Niamh White is a young volunteer with the Service.
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Posted on Thursday 21 November 2013
North Down MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon, and Green Party Leader and MLA, Steven Agnew, helped us launch our second round of health checks in association with Action Cancer.
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Posted on Monday 11 November 2013
Our Craft Fair and coffee morning in Groomsport on Saturday 9 November 2013 was a great success – and was attended by two very special guests.
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Posted on Thursday 07 November 2013
It was a beautiful sunny but cold day at our third site meeting today. There has been some delay due to the wet weather, but good progress has been made and we are now up to roof height on parts of the building.
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Posted on Thursday 07 November 2013
Children at Willowbridge School in Enniskillen are benefiting from a specially installed sensory garden, thanks to Positive Futures.
The garden – developed with the help of The Organic Centre, Rossinver, and with financial assistance from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency – is designed to offer sensory stimulation to children with a learning disability. It was built in memory of children supported by the charity and the school who have died, including Peadar Lunney from Teemore. He died a year ago aged 16.
Posted on Thursday 03 October 2013
While the sun wasn’t out at our second site meeting today, and the builders have lost 2 days on the build due to bad weather, things are progressing well and we can now see the size and shape of each room on the ground floor.
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Posted on Tuesday 24 September 2013
Michelle Gildernew, MP, visited our Head Office on Tuesday 24 September to meet Paul Roberts, our Managing Director, and Linda Woodcock, Studio 3 consultant.
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Posted on Wednesday 04 September 2013
The first site meeting of our new Short Break Service took place today.
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Posted on Friday 09 August 2013
Positive Futures is giving a voice to people with a learning disability by providing them with an iPad. This innovative project enables people who have no spoken language to communicate with other people in a way that they just could not do before.
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Posted on Sunday 30 June 2013
Joanne Morrison, our Participation Worker, spoke so well about the subject of participation at a high profile UNESCO conference that she has been asked by Queen’s University to write a paper on the topic.
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