February was a very busy month for the UCAN team; we ran drama and confidence building workshops in Barry, Milford Haven. Pembroke, Bangor and Wrexham. These workshops were delivered as part of the Big Lottery funded project Future Insight, a partnership project with RNIB Cymru, Vision Support, and Guide Dogs, which delivers a range of support services for visually impaired young people across Wales. We had a fantastic month made lots of new friends and had a lot of fun.
Some of the UCAN team travelled to Glasgow to meet with members of the NLBD, National League of the Blind and Disabled at the wonderful Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries factory. It was a fantastic opportunity to see how people with disabilities enjoy a range of employment. Looking forward to further collaborations.
A MASSIVE thank you to the students of Cardiff University School of Optometry and Visions OPSOC for writing to Santa to make sure all our Maggie’s Club Members got an early Christmas present.
Enjoy our Christmas video
Merry Christmas from everyone here at UCAN! Listen to our favourite festive songs from over the years and watch what we have been up to this holiday season.
The UCAN i2i Training Team delivers Creative Equality Training for the Community Trade Union, National Executive Committee at their training offices in Earls Barton. Development Director Jane Latham said “It was a real privilege to be able to present to the NEC, it was a fascinating day and a wonderfully diverse group of participants.”
In late September the UCAN Team visited the amazing social enterprise, Dialogue in the Dark in Hamburg.
http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/
Bernie Latham, Artistic Director said ‘It was an astonishing experience and one I will never forget, I particularly enjoyed Dialog in Silence which has really helped me inform some of my most recent work’
Dinos Aristidou said I found the experience of both Dialogue in the Dark and Dialogue in Silence very powerful and well structured and conceived, taking the participant through different stages of awareness and understanding”
