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Newsletter July 2016
www.mylifemychoice.org.uk Charity number: 1073247
We’re very excited to
have won Oxfordshire’s
Charity of the Year award
for 2016. Here’s some
pictures of us at the
awards ceremony.
We’re Oxfordshire Charity of the Year 2016!
July 2016 Newsletter Page 1
My Life My Choice News
Money from the Local Sustainability Fund
My Life My Choice has been awarded £94,458 from a grant
called the Local Sustainability Fund.
What will we spend the money on?
Recruiting and training a new Power Up Coordinator to
develop our Power Up training.
Training a new Inspections Coordinator to develop work like
Quality Checkers and Care and Treatment Reviews. This
work involves people with learning disabilities being paid to
monitor and check services that they have experience of.
Paying somebody to help us check that we are following the
law and help us with our policies.
Advice from the Foundation for Social Improvement.
Training for our trustees.
100 club
100 club committee members went to the train station and asked staff to pick
the winners of the June draw. The winners were John Jackson and Yvonne Price.
John kindly donated his £100 prize to My Life My Choice—thank you John!
Next year’s 100 Club tickets are now for sale!
Buy one for a chance to win £100 first prize and £25 second prize.
Staff changes
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Alex, Patty and Clerence have all left My Life My Choice. We want to thank
them for all their hard work for the charity. We will miss them!
We also have 6 new members of staff...
Jess is our Power Up
Coordinator. She
works in the office.
Lydia is our new Finance
and Admin Worker. She
works in the office part time.
Tina is our new Stingray
Coordinator. She also
runs the Oxford Group.
Paula is the new Group
Leader for the Oxford
Young People’s Group.
Ros is the new Group
Leader for the Wantage
and Henley Groups.
Hayley is the new Group
Leader for the Didcot
and Abingdon Groups.
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Champion news
Jackie, Shaun, Kate and Michael had
a meeting with Tim Smart. Tim Smart is
the interim Chair of Southern Health.
We asked him about the sale of Slade
House, funding for our health checks
work, and how he plans to engage
with people with learning disabilities.
He said “I want to make sure that I’m
meeting with groups of people with
learning disabilities” and “The NHS
needs to enable people with learning
disabilities to fulfil their potential.”
Follow @OxChampions on Twitter or read the blog on our website to find out
more about what MLMC Champions get up to.
MLMC Champions campaign, lobby and speak up for people who have a
learning disability. This month, Paul and Shaun
went to London to have a
meeting in Parliament.
They met with Suella
Fernandes MP and Alistair
Burt MP (the Minister for
Community and Social Care)
to tell them about Connor
Sparrowhawk, the Justice for
LB Campaign and the
problems with Southern
Health NHS Services.
Afterwards, they watched the parliamentary debate about the failings at
Southern Health. Shaun said: “It was a good day out. Alistair Burt listened to
what we had to say and I hope that will make a difference. It was interesting to
watch a debate in Parliament, but it wasn’t very easy to understand.”
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Transforming care event
Aims of the Transforming Care Plan
Overall: To enable people with learning
disabilities and / or autism to have a
good, meaningful and “ordinary” life.
1. To improve people’s health.
2. To improve the quality of support.
3. To help people stay safe.
4. To enable people to have an active
voice and role in their community.
5. To improve support for families and
carers.
6. To improve the continuity of care for
children and families when preparing
and / or moving into adulthood.
7. To improve early intervention and
support for children and families.
8. To improve people’s housing options
and choices about where they live.
In May we held a workshop about the
Oxfordshire Transforming Care Plan.
The Transforming Care Plan will make
services better for people with
learning disabilities who display
behaviour that challenges.
MLMC has been working with
Oxfordshire Family Support Network,
Autism Oxford, and the Oxfordshire
Clinical Commissioning Group to write
the plan.
This is what Dawn thinks needs to happen.
We asked people with learning disabilities and families what they thought of our
ideas so far.
Get in touch My Life My Choice, The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street,
Oxford, OX1 1HU
01865 204214
www.mylifemychoice.org.uk
@mylifemychoice1
www.facebook.com/1mlmc
Join a MLMC group Abingdon group is 7pm—9pm at 35 Ock Street
Wednesday 20 July, Wednesday 21 September, Wednesday 19 October
Banbury group is 1.45pm—3.45pm at the Ruscote Community Hall
Thursday 28 July, Thursday 25 August, Thursday 22 September
Carterton group is 7.15pm—9.15pm at the ICE Centre
Tuesday 12 July, Tuesday 13 September, Tuesday 25 October
Chipping Norton is 1pm—3pm at The Albion, 1 Market Place
Thursday 21 July, Thursday 18 August, Thursday 15 September
Didcot group is 10.30am—12.30 pm at Didcot Methodist Church
Wednesday 13 July, Wednesday 17 August, Wednesday 21 September
Henley group is 7pm-9pm at Henley YMCA
Monday 18 July, Monday 15 August, Monday 12 September
Oxford group is 2.30pm-2.30pm at Albion Day Time Support
Wednesday 27 July, Wednesday 24 August, Wednesday 7 September
Oxford Young People’s group is 6.30pm—7.30pm at the MLMC Offices
Wednesday 27 July, Wednesday 17 August, Wednesday 21 September
Wantage group is 7pm—9pm at the Wantage Methodist Church
Tuesday 12 July, Tuesday 13 September, Wednesday 12 October
Dates and venues sometimes change, so if you’re coming to a group for the first
time please phone the office to double check.