Everyone at Kith & Kids would like to wish you a very happy festive season and wonderful 2009 .
It has been an incredible year, which we have enjoyed immensely. Our projects, summer camp, weekend clubs and friendship outings have been some of our best yet and we are busy putting the final touches to our Christmas project! On behalf of all of the staff and families involved in Kith & Kids thank you for your contribution. Like most organisations we face tough challenges for the coming year and we look forward to being in touch in 2009. But for now this is a great opportunity to reflect on our most recent successes.
Our new Employment, Life skills and Education Project started this year for a group of young adults who have autism. On a Monday and a Wednesday the ELSEP group learn and develop skills that will help them to achieve either employment or further education. Importantly they explore many of the issues related to this that most of us take for granted including developing better social skills in order to build relationships and successfully interact with others, budgeting and life skills including independent travel and confidence building, numeracy and literacy. The group are working fabulously together and some have already started work experience placements which will help them achieve their long term career aims. We wish them luck for the new year!
New support for sons and daughters when parents are no longer around
New staff member Sarah Samuel started this year as coordinator for the brand new Kith & Kids Lifetime Advocacy Support Project. This is an extremely important project for parents and carers as Sarah's role is to advocate for people with a disability when their parents are no longer able to, making sure that they are ok and accessing the services they need most. Sarah has been getting to know the families involved with KLASP over the past few months and looks forward to meeting more people in 2009.
A bumper London Marathon and challenge events team!
This year we had 30 runners in our London Marathon team. These included super band Coldplay's guitarist Guy Berryman. In total we raised over £70,000 which is absolutely amazing. We have 29 guaranteed places for the 2009 London Marathon and we are hoping to increase this to 40 as it is our 40th anniversary year through recruiting people who have secured their own place through the ballot system. We thank all of the participants in our challenge events team who helped us to raise over £100,000.
Getting ready to celebrate
2009 is Kith & Kids 40th Anniversary year. From our very humble beginnings we have grown into a successful organisation that eases some of the pressures of having a family member with a learning disability. All of our birthday plans will be posted on our website www.kithandkids.org.uk so keep in touch and join us in celebrating a great achievement.
Best wishes from everyone at Kith & Kids
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