CLASP (Caring Listening And Supporting Partnership): support for people with learning disabilities

CLASP is a self-advocacy organisation for people with learning disabilities in the Wokingham borough. Self-advocacy is when you speak up about the things that are important to you. CLASP helps people with learning disabilities to do this. 

CLASP aims to: 

• Empower people with learning disabilities to speak up for their rights 
• Promote independence and encourage community involvement
• Challenge people's perceptions of people with a learning disability 
• Develop members' employability skills
• Influence local and national decision making 

As a user-led organisation, over half of the members on CLASP's Board of Directors have a learning disability. CLASP also employs people with learning disabilities to support our projects. 

CLASP runs: 

• a weekly coffee shop where members can get involved in our projects and get signposting information 
• a training group called Listen To Us which delivers disability awareness training 
• a campaigning group called Take Notice which also acts as a consultancy group 
• a hate crime reporting centre