Meet The Team

Members Committee and Fundraising Committee Members

The Members’ Committee and Fundraising Committee are volunteers.

What do they do.

The Members Committee group meets every six to eight weeks and their role is to:

• Get involved in consultations and any Wirral Mencap campaigns
• Support Wirral Mencap with recruitment interviews
• Represent Wirral Mencap to other organisations, members of the public, companies, other Mencap organisations
• Make links with other learning disability organisations
• Present at the Wirral Mencap AGM
• Help with fundraising events and activities
• Plan and organise fundraising events and activities
• Develop new ideas to help raise funds for Wirral Mencap
• Support community fundraising and awareness campaigns
• Build links with local businesses, organisations and supporters
• Help promote fundraising events through networking and publicity
• Encourage involvement from members, families and the local community
• Support applications for grants and donations where appropriate
• Help ensure fundraising activities reflect the values and aims of Wirral Mencap

Learning Disability Advocates

A Learning Disability Advocate (LDA) is a person who speaks up for themselves and other people with a learning disability.

They can also be a parent or carer.

Learning Disability Advocates show services how to do better.

• Listen to people with a learning disability and carers to hear their opinions
• Work with services to change how they do things which is called coproduction
• Speak up at local or national meetings, events and workshops

Learning Disability Trainers

A Learning Disability Trainer (LDT) is someone who helps to co-produce and deliver training. This is a paid job and LDT’S will receive money for the work they do.

• Help to deliver training to professionals and people with a learning disability
• Come up with new ideas to help us co-produce training sessions or services
• Talk and listen to people with a learning disability and professionals to hear their ideas and experiences