Below is an extract from the new book All About Us! The story of people with a learning disability and Mencap. The book is compiled by Mencap president Brian Rix. The text below is by Mencap chief ...

Organise a Mencap One Big Walk this September and help raise funds for the 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK. Whether you walk alone or with friends, family or colleagues, the ...

Aaron Plummer, 20, from Walthamstow in London has a learning disability and cerebral palsy. Starting at Leyton Jubilee Park, Aaron will be running a marathon route in his local area with his support ...

Michelle Nicholas from Belfast is on Mencap's Young Professionals committee. Mencap works alongside and represents the interests of people in Northern Ireland with a learning disability and their ...

Telecoms giant Vodafone has teamed up with learning disability charity Mencap to connect over 45 supported living homes using Internet of Things technology. The Connected Living project will use ...

Back in 1958, the groundbreaking ‘Brooklands Experiment’, conducted by New Zealand psychologist Professor Jack Tizard in Reigate, UK, compared the progress of children with a learning disability ...