Learning Abilities Cafe/Community Building

Who are we, and what is our project about?

Learning Abilities CIC supports adults with disabilities to live long, healthy and fulfilling lives through a variety of projects:

Employment: We break down barriers to employment using the support employment model, increasing opportunities to meaningful and long lasting employment.

Social skills: We offer social groups and events breaking down social isolation and improving mental wellbeing

Independant living skills: Through our cafe we teach our adults to cook, do basic housekeeping as well as employability skills working with money and serving customers

Pre employability skills, confidence and social skills: We offer courses improving all of the above that is based on fun and games, not just another employment course!

Health accessibility: Having this building will allow us to begin a project breaking down barriers to health services.

Why are we crowdfunding?

We have a fantastic opportunity to house everything we are doing under one roof. We have funding for our cafe, staff in place and plenty going on but to be able to pull it all together will allow us to offer more to our adults as well as integrate into programs with the local community.

How we’ll spend the money raised

The building we are interested in needs capital renovations to ensure it is safe and multifunctional as well as completely accessible for everyone.

We need to install two new doors, replace flooring throughout with non slip and washable flooring as well as adding in storage space to accomate the community groups that already use the building. We are wanting to cater to all ages, groups and be a happy space for everyone

How you can help

There are three simple ways to get involved and support our project:

1. Make a donation

Every pledge gets us closer to our goal. Early support can help build momentum and inspire others to give too.

2. Spread the word

Share our project with friends, family and your wider network. The more people we reach, the more likely we are to succeed.

3. Volunteer with us (optional – remove if not relevant)

If you’d like to get involved, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch through the ‘Contact’ section using the subject "I want to volunteer my time or expertise" on our project page.