Liberty Jamboree - Over 18s Social Opportunities






Liberty Jamboree offer an exciting provision for young adults over the age of 18 to meet up and go out with their friends at evenings and weekends.
The groups are supported by professionally qualified workers and offer a range of personalised additional support (including personal care and the administration of medication).
The group meets bi weekly to plan outings, trips, holidays, events and outings.
Aim:
The aim of the sessions is to develop interpersonal friendship skills. Liberty believes is vital that young adults create their own peer support group and experience life like any other young adult.
Who to contact
- Contact Name
- Maggi Huckfield
- Contact Position
- Lead Worker
- Telephone
- 07772749661 07772749661
- maggi@liberty-staffordshire.co.uk
- Website
- Liberty Jamboree website
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- Liberty Jamboree Facebook Page
- libertystaffs14
- Notes
Contact via phone call or email.
Costs
- From £10 dependent on the activity per session
- Details
- Sessions cost s vary dependent upon the activity - extra money may be needed for food, drinks and activities
Availability
- Referral required
- Yes
DBS Checks
- Have staff or volunteers been DBS (CRB) checked?
- Yes
- Additional Information
Liberty’s vision:
“Young People & Adults with Special Educational Needs, Disabilities &/or Mental Ill Health enjoy great learning and participate fully within their communities."
Liberty’s aim:
“ To offer young people/adults with Special Educational Needs, Disabilities &/or Mental Ill Health equal opportunities within Staffordshire by developing programmes which enable its members similar or the same experiences as any other young person”
Our strategic 6 goals:
- To facilitate youth provisions focusing on social and emotional development opportunities, fun activities, independent living and life skills workshops as well as informal curriculum based activities to help develop young people’s resilience and social and emotional learning
- To provide a range of inclusive, adapted sporting opportunities to help promote a healthy, active lifestyles whilst encouraging team building and emotional wellbeing
- To offer needs led targeted projects focusing on group work and personal development such as ‘Sign and Sign’ Choir, Girls Group.
- To be a voice for young people and young adults with SEND and mental ill health, discussing and influencing issues that affect them and to develop and carry out social action projects.
- To offer targeted group work to young adults focusing on life skills, independent living, employability skills and travel training to learn, grow and develop - widening their world; we aim to empower each individual to increase their self-esteem and offer a chance to discover and develop, enabling them to be more visible within their communities.
- To empower and support young adults to organise a range of social activities such as day trips, evenings out, UK holidays and holidays abroad; becoming a social network of peer support.
- To facilitate youth provisions focusing on social and emotional development opportunities, fun activities, independent living and life skills workshops as well as informal curriculum based activities to help develop young people’s resilience and social and emotional learning