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It's our first birthday

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Hello

This week is such a busy week. As well has having our wonderful carers expert event, supported by Elizabeth from Carers UK, it is also Learning Disability Week and the online community's first birthday.

I thought you might be interested to know that people have spent 2363 hours on the community over the last year (that's nearly 100 days). There have been over 540 conversations, and more than 2600 comments made.

You have all been wonderful. Please do carry on asking questions and sharing your stories on here.

If you'd like to hear more about Learning Disability Week 2020 then have a look on our page - mencap.org.uk/get-involved/...

The theme this year is the importance of friendships during lockdown. We know many people with a learning disability will be unable to see their friends in person at the moment.

So we’ve created a pack to help you have a fun video call with your friends!

The pack includes how to make a friendship flag which you could make before your video call that shows all the things you like or miss about your friend. Go straight to the flag pack here - mencap.org.uk/sites/default...

thanks again

Sarah

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Fantastic! Happy birthday to Mencap's Online Community! Fx

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