Basildon, Billericay and Wickford Partners

BOSP supports children and young adults with complex disabilities or life-limiting conditions, and their families, by providing high-quality, fun, educational activities, respite, peer support and counselling.

We are a community organisation that supports people by raising awareness of spiritual care in Mental Health recovery.

An important part of this work includes promoting respect for people’s beliefs and practices from faith traditions other than their own. This includes those beliefs of people who claim no religious affiliation.

SUMMIT's mission is to improve people's live by empowering them to take back control, restore their self-belief, self-reliance, and self-worth.

We manage, provide and facilitate a range of services and work in partnership with other organisations, serving the learning-disabled community and adults with mental illness.

We have been serving the disabled community since 1976, providing a voice for the marginalised.

We are an Essex wide service: covering Tendring, Braintree, Maldon, Colchester, Chelmsford, Epping, Harlow and Uttlesford.

The AB4D PROJECT

Email: ab4d@summitservices.org.uk

AB4D (Ability B4 Disability) is an Essex wide service delivered by SUMMIT and BATIAS in partnership with Essex County Council (ECC) for people with Learning Disabilities or Autism.

The aim of the service is to provide a flexible platform where people can be empowered to have a voice in their local community, discuss issues that are important to them and work together to find solutions.

AB4D works with anyone with a lived experience of learning disability or autism to gather their views, to collaborate and influence positive change.

Women Together is a voluntary organisation which aims to integrate vulnerable women from different backgrounds into the community. Coffee mornings are organised to provide fun activities such as art and craft, sewing, jewellery making, talent shows and health and fitness activities. Outside agencies are invited to deliver lectures on topics related to interfaith, educational matters and mental health. A few topics covered in the past include Special Educational Needs in Children including Neurological disorders like ADHD, OCD, Autism and Dyslexia, Science of Stress and Actions for Anxiety, Dementia and Domestic Violence, Bereavement, Mental Health and CBT.

We also bring a dish to share to eat lunch together and exchange recipes!

Socialising with the women who are part of Women Together in a friendly manner, allows us to listen to their personal problems; consequently providing advice and help. Women Together has participated in two “International Women’s Day” events, raising self-confidence of women from vulnerable backgrounds.

Women Together is FREE to attend