News

Annual General Meeting

• Our AGM was on Tuesday, 25^th November 2008 at: CJs Café/the Citizens Gallery in Powis Street in Woolwich
• Many thanks to Patrick McNamee for his loan of laptop and projector for the event.
• This link takes you to a page of photos of the meeting

Our new 2007 - 2008 Annual Report

• You can download a copy of our new annual report (pdf 2.89mb). This is a large Adobe Acrobat File (pdf).
• You can download the free Adobe Reader from the Adobe web site.
• The report tells you about our work over the last financial year and our plans to work more closely with mcch.
• Contact Working with Words if you would like a paper copy of the annual report.

Three burglaries at Working with Words

We have now been broken into three times in three weeks and have lost a lot of equipment.

Read the full story from the News Shopper on this web site.

Working with Words is 10 years old!

Working with Words became a Company in May 1998. During that time, we have trained 130 people with learning difficulties, have helped make information accessible for many companies, Councils, Government departments and other organisations.

On the right is a photo of Dominic Cooper, sent to wish Working with Words good luck in its 10^th year.

Celebration event

• We held a celebration at Charlton House on 3^rd September 2008. You can download a copy of our 10th anniversary booklet (pdf, 1.41mb)
• Find out more about the event on our 10 year celebration page - comments from Nick Raynsford MP, the Queen, Boris Johnson and many others!
• See photos of our celebration

I'm a Person Too project

Working with Words is working with Advocacy in Greenwich (GCAP) on a project. We want to make the way services help people with learning disabilities better. We have held several workshops to find out about people’s experiences with the Housing Department, Citizen Advice and the Police.

Your can see our flyer about this work (pdf, 494kb) and find out more on our Person Too Project page.

mcch connect site is now live

• Working with Words has helped develop the accessible mcch web site at www.mcchconnect.co.uk. We also provided some introductory training to help service users begin to contribute to the site.
• The site also has a message board which was designed with Echo computers in Kent.
• mcch are celebrating their 20 year anniversary in September this year. Find out more from the main mcch web site.

Press releases

You can download a copy of our releases below:

• WwW's tenth Anniversary (Word document, 33kb)
• AGM and Lloyds TSB (Word document, 34kb)
• ECDL awards (Word document, 29kb)

Annual Report and Customer Newsletter

• View and download our 2008 Annual Report (pdf, 2.87mb).
• See our Customer Newsletter (pdf, 752kb) which gives details of some of our work.
• You can also download a copy of our referral agency briefing notes (pdf, 35kb) which will help people wishing to refer someone for training at Working with Words.

New work

• We are working with the Valuing People Support Team on their report of their 'Getting a Life' event. We have completed work on an accessible version of their Bulletin and on a flier for their 'Getting a Life' event.
• We are working with Legal Services to produce accessible versions of two of their leaflets.
• We are working with iDeA (Improvement and Development Agency for local government) to produce an accessible version of their report on commissioning services for people with learning disabilities.
• We produced an accessible leaflet with the Financial Ombudsman Service
• We designed an accessible web site for people with learning disabilities with mcch Charity
• We are working with Greenwich Citizen Advocacy on the "I'm a Person Too" project to train public organisations on working with people with learning difficulties
• We have compleed our work with the Nationwide Building Society on an easy read leaflet about their Cash Card Account
• We have finished our work with the Learning and Skills Council to produce an accessible version of "Learning for Living and Working in London"
• We are working again with the Bromley Council on the final version of their day service strategy
• We have nearly completed our work with Greenwich Community Learning Disability Team on a leaflet about 'self harm'
• We have produced documents for the December 2008 Learning Disability Partnership Board meeting in Greenwich
• We are working with Wiltshire County Council to produce an accessible web site for people with learning disabilities in WIltshire
• We are working with Greenwich Adult Services on the Greenwich Learning Disabilities web site at www.greenwichvaluingpeople.org.uk.

Off the shelf information

We can provide customers now with off the shelf easy information, in different formats.