What's new

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.

Celebration event

We held a celebration at Charlton House on Wednesday, 3rd September.

• You can download a flier about the event (pdf, 279kb).
• You can also download a copy of our 10th anniversary booklet (pdf, 1.41mb)
• Find out more about the event on our 10 year celebration page

Paid trainer post at Working with Words

We are looking for a trainer to work with our service users with learning difficulties.

Hours: Part Time Salary: £12,000 for 21 hours a week. 9.30am – 5.30pm

Closing Date: 12th September 2008

• Please go to our trainer job page to find out more.

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:

• 10th 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 2007 Annual Report (pdf, 1.17mb).
• See our Customer Newsletter (pdf, 752kb) which gives details of our recent 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.

Presenting certificates for the European Computer Driving License

Bob Boulder, James Bennett, Chris Judge, Ros Thomson, Asad Ahmad and Sajid Jawaid (Mayor of Greenwich) at our Annual General Meeting in December

More information

• See more photos of our recent Annual General Meeting
• Find out about the ECDL Training at Working with Words
• Watch a video about our work

New work

• We are working with the Valuing People Support Team on an accessible version of their Bulletin and on a flier for one of their 'Getting a Life' events.
• 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 updated the Human Rights Guide that we produced for the Ministry of Justice
• We have worked with ofgem to make the consumer sections of their web site more accessible
• We are working with the Nationwide Building Society on an easy read leaflet about their Cash Card Account
• We worked again 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 their partnership board minutes, day service strategy and on a questionnaire for their service users
• We worked with the London Borough of Bexley on a leaflet about their Change Programme
• We designed an accessible leaflet for service users with the Greenwich Adult Placement Scheme
• We are working with Greenwich Community Learning Disability Team on a leaflet about 'self harm'
• We are producing documents for the September 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 and we worked on a leaflet to promote a local event for Learning Disability Awareness Week.

Off the shelf information

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