Charity Information

Leonard Cheshire Disability

Mission Statement

Leonard Cheshire Disability is the leading disability charity in the UK, supporting over 21,000 disabled people so that they can put the focus on ‘ability’ and not have their lives governed by ‘disability’.

We campaign for change and provide innovative services that give disabled people the opportunity to live life their way.

We operate in all parts of the UK and are the largest voluntary sector provider of care and support services for disabled people. Our principal activity is the provision of services in support of disabled people in the widest context.

We are ‘pan-disability’; our work with people with the widest range of disabilities gives us unique insight into how disability affects people’s lives and allows us to develop new services and projects in line with what they want and need.

We have amazing volunteering opportunities which allow volunteers to achieve real results for and alongside the very people they are helping.

Our new mission, launched as we approached our 60th year in 2008, sees us wanting to reach millions not just tens of thousands of disabled people. It is a bigger vision and will therefore have a bigger impact. Our main aims are:

Maintaining our commitment to existing services and those using them: providing first-class care and support to disabled people in an environment fit for the 21st century.

Finding innovative new ways to support disabled people: looking at new ways to help disabled people reach their full potential, whether that’s through a job, specialist training, sports, personal relationship or so much more.

Campaigning to change attitudes: achieving long-term sustainable change by affecting the way people think about disability. Our award-winning Creature Discomforts campaign, created in conjunction with the Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman, gives disabled people the chance to speak about what’s important to them and so influence how people think and act about disability, making a positive, permanent difference to the lives of all disabled people.

Bringing it all together: Every bit of work we do, whether it is offering IT training, helping someone start their own business or showing someone how to campaign to get their local traffic lights phasing changed so they can safely cross the road in their wheelchair is all part of the same aim; to empower disabled people and to change attitudes towards disability.

Ways to Give

Charity Contact Details x

Emma Bakhle - Corporate Development Manager

Tel: 020 3242 0419
Email: emma.bakhle@lcdisability.org

Registered Charity No: 218186

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