8 May 2017
Niamh McNally
Aodhán has Downs Syndrome and spent a year at the Mencap Children’s Centre in Belfast, where he lives with his brother, Dad and Mum Francine. We talk to Francine about Aodhán and how Mencap has helped.
5 May 2017
Aodhàn and Luca are three years old and attend the Mencap Centre Nursery in Belfast. Here their key worker, Paul Kane, talks about their friendship, and the progress they have made at the nursery.
26 April 2017
Alexandra Horsfield
Daisy and Lucy are 3 years old and have just finished their first year at Mencap Centre Nursery in Belfast
27 March 2017
Mencap NI held a Café Conversations event at the Mencap Centre in Belfast and at the Omagh Community House for candidates in South Belfast and West Tyrone
Mencap NI's Youth Forum travelled to London's Leicester Square to receive an award for a film they created which highlights awareness about autism and learning disabilities.
27 January 2017
Thomas Haighton
Northern Ireland is to hold its first Learning Disability Pride Day on 27 May 2017
21 December 2016
Brian Kennedy
Northern Ireland golf hero Rory McIlroy, made his first visit to the new Mencap Centre in Belfast, following his donation of £500,000 from the Rory Foundation to support the build of the facility.
8 November 2016
Mencap’s Learning Disability Work Experience Week reveals that over half of the public say they would prefer to work for a company that employs people with a learning disability
7 November 2016
Read about Lee's Work Experience