Completed in 2023, our Green Citizens programme empowered people with learning disabilities to share their knowledge with others and make a positive contribution to the conversation about local sustainability, conservation and wildlife. We are planning how to continue this work enabling people with learning disabilties to have a voice in the protection of our wildlife and green spaces.

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A grant from the Samworth Foundation's Transformation & Innovation Fund has enabled us to improve our use of outdoor space at our two Flower Pod centres. We have created accessible therapeutic garden and wildlife spaces to offer new learning and mentoring programmes. Some of our clients took the lead as environmental champions in their communities and within Reach.

Enabling people with learning disabilities to participate fully in their local communities has always been at the core of Reach’s mission and thanks to this funding, we're now able to take this a step further through our Green Citizens programme.

Please see our blog to read about the project.