Genesis Christmas Decoration Day Christmas at Genesis Genesis always comes alive at Christmas time and this year was no exception. Genesis is a place for Ipswich disability day care, a place to get second hand bikes in Ipswich, a dignified place to access domiciliary care for disabled adults but for this Christmas period it is also a place for celebration. As the festivities began [...]
Genesis Orwell Mencap is always grateful for the hard work and dedication of our staff. They are the foundation of the services that Genesis offers our customers whether that be activities for disabled adults, supported living in Ipswich, or helping service users transform second-hand bikes in Ipswich, the community of service users that we have here would not exist. Every day all our service [...]
Remembrance Day at Genesis Poppy Making The week leading up to Remembrance Day Genesis has been commemorating the lives of all those that died on the front lines. As the poppy is the universal symbol for remembrance, the art room at Genesis has been set on creating their own. Everyone put together a number of bold red poppies and green wreaths to hang them [...]
When walking into Genesis Orwell Mencap you could see a tide of green in celebration of Global Dignity Day. It was a worldwide event that we wouldn’t miss for the world because of the brilliant cause that it is honouring. The importance of dignity is never lost on Genesis and our staff as we pride ourselves on always providing a dignified service that respects [...]
Raising awareness for adults with disabilities is at the core of what we are trying to achieve here at Genesis Orwell Mencap. Genesis is an Ipswich disability day care service for adults with a variety of special needs. Therefore, every year we have our own disability awareness day, to shed a light on exactly what it is like to have a physical or learning [...]
The Green Bike Project, that repairs second hand bikes in Ipswich was reached out to by Suffolk Baby Bank, about a young child in need. This young boy had unfortunately recently lost many of his belongings, the kind of things that children love like toys and games as well as essentials such as clothes. His situation was dire and the Suffolk Baby Bank were [...]
Suffolk New College raised an amazing £745.87 for Genesis and we are filled with gratitude at the hard work and dedication of the students at Suffolk New. A group of catering students decided to do the generous act of hand picking our charity to raise money for. They raised this money by expertly creating a variety of baked goods and refreshing drinks to sell [...]
Congratulations to our two new Support Coordinators, Byron and Sarah! Byron is our new Independent Support Coordinator, working in the Independents' office. Byron has been working at Genesis for 5 years as a Support Worker, and most recently, he has been providing maternity cover for the Independent Lead role. Sarah is our new Support Coordinator for the 1:1's, working in the Support Coordinators’ office. [...]
This week we’ve been busy with all of our Easter activities, including making Easter baskets, decorating Easter bonnets, and doing an Easter egg hunt in the garden at our daycare centre in Ipswich! All of our service users have got involved in the hunt, with lots of happy faces as they found their eggs hidden all around the garden. We gave out over 50 eggs over [...]
We were delighted to welcome our local Member of Parliament Tom Hunt to our Genesis site last week for a Q&A session with our service users. Our Chief Exec, Rob Hart, and two of our service users, Carl and Alice, gave Tom a tour of the site where we organise activities for disabled adults and young people, as it was Tom’s first visit to Genesis. He got [...]
