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“Festival of Ideas” entry: “Mental Distress Sufferer Employment via Enterprise, and Stigma Fighting”, by the mental distress sufferer led MESOMOCO CIC

1. What is the problem you are trying to solve?
The massive employment dilemma faced by mental distress sufferers, and people with a history of mental health problems. Th social exclusion faced by these people, and the resulting loss of indepence, the spiral down towards vulnerability that this causes, the related other risks of joblessness, debt, […]

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Festival of Ideas Entry from Martha Trust

Martha Trust is a charity providing residential and respite care for people with profound disabilities. We are looking at creating a new innovative service and this is our entry for the festival of ideas. I look forward to hearing your views!
What is the problem you are working to solve?
Whilst there are a few independent living […]

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Widening Horizons

St. Francis’ Children’s Society, a voluntary adoption agency and registered charity is working to find families for children with disabilities and special needs. Recent research of the Adoption Register of England and Wales states that over 88% of children waiting to be adopted have some form of additional or special need. The Society […]

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