Social Opportunities

Our social opportunities project aims to provide a safe and fun environment for adults with learning disabilities to meet, socialise and experience things they may not usually feel comfortable accessing.

You are free to attend events as and when you choose. For most activities there is no cost to you, other than the price of your meal or ticket for example.

We hold a monthly planning session, led by users, where you can suggest the things you would like to do – wherever possible we try to ensure everyone’s suggestions are used.

Our goal is to set up small, user-led groups to enable you to take as much control as possible in organising and planning your own social life. We aim to promote independence and want to help you to build the skills and confidence to meet with others with as little support as necessary.

Generate currently supports one such group, the friendship group. This is a user-led group which was set up by friends who wished to meet regularly. They are Charlotte, Patrick, Chloe, Sarah and Loretta, and they are supported by a member of Generate staff, Lee. The group meets on a Tuesday evening and often go out. They plan all of their own activities. Lee is on hand to help out with things like travel support, booking tickets and making reservations, and accompanying the group to go out when requested.

When the group meets they like to chat, play music, dance and play games. When one of the group has a birthday, the others go to their house to celebrate. The friendship group laugh a lot!