UCAN Festival at the Wales Millennium Centre.
/Date for the diary, be sure to save Wednesday July 24th 2019 for the UCAN Annual Festival 11am until 4pm.
More details to follow.
Date for the diary, be sure to save Wednesday July 24th 2019 for the UCAN Annual Festival 11am until 4pm.
More details to follow.
Everyone at UCAN would like to welcome our new board member Jenny Blackmore. Jenny is a QVTI ( Teacher of Visually Impaired Children and Young People) in the Neath Port Talbot Area and played a vital part in helping us set up our regular UCAN After School Club for visually impaired children and young people in the area.
Having successfully delivered this project for the past 3 years we are delighted to announce that the Wales Council for the Blind and UCAN Productions partnership project, 'Ein Llis Ein Storm: Our Voice Our Storm' has been extended until 2020.
The Storm project, which is supported by Sustainable Social Services Grant, will continue to work specifically with young adults across Wales by offering the opportunity to have their voices and opinions heard.
Congratulations go to Project Managers Megan John and Mared Jarman for making the project such a success.
UCAN Productions are very grateful to The John Andrews Charitable Trust for donating funds to enable UCAN to run more Maggie's Club Workshops. The John Andrews Charitable Trust was set up in 1990 and has continued since the passing of John and his wife, Nancy. The Trust looks to help further the projects that have a real impact in helping better the lives of other and those who make a real difference to the community.
Maggie's Club has been running very successfully now for over 7 years, providing confidence building skills via workshops such as Sound, Music, Tactile Art and Circus skills to children and young people who visit Dr Margaret Woodhouse, OBE in the eye clinic at The School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University on Maindy Road. Many of the children who attend Maggie's club have disabilities such as downs syndrome, sight and hearing impairment, autism, Aspergers, learning difficulties and the majority of the children lack in confidence and are excluded from many activities due to their disabilities. At Maggie's Club the priority is to have fun, make new friends and learn new skills, and thanks to The John Andrews Charitable Trust we are able to continue to do just that.
We are so proud to announce that UCAN Founder (Jane Latham) has been named on the new year honours list and will be receiving a British Empire Medal for her contribution for the blind and partially sighted in Wales.
You can view the full list of honours here
A huge congratulations to Jane from all of us at UCAN!