A group of friends who live in one of Aspire’s supported living services suggested we hold a Design a T-shirt Competition.

Their idea is for budding artists to come up with their own designs to say thank you to all support workers.  Not surprisingly, the theme will be RAINBOWS.

You should send your designs to our Endecliff supported living service by Wednesday, 17th June.  (Don’t forget to include your name and contact details.)

T-SHIRT COMPETITION

The winning design will be announced at Picnic in Your Garden during Leeds Learning Disability Week.  Later we’ll have the design printed onto T-shirts that will be available to buy and all money raised will be donated to charity.

Our programme of events for Leeds Learning Disability Week starts today with the Great Aspire Bake Off.

Sweet, savoury, creative or baking on a budget? All entries welcome.  So break out those mixers, dust off the rolling pin and …. BAKE!!!

Details of where to send your photographs are on the flyer.  We need these by Sunday, 14th June so we can post the entires throughout the day on the 15th when the winner(s) will be announced.

Great Aspire Bake Off Flyer

Our second event for Leeds Learning Disability Week is The Big Walk.  Usually we hold a sponsored supported walk around Swinsty Reservoir.  However, given the lockdown, we decided to do things differently this year.  Instead, we’re asking you to walk around your garden, home or locality and let us know how many steps you did.

If you prefer other types of exercise, that’s fine too.  Just let us know what you did and for how long, and we’ll work out the steps.

You’ll find a video about the walk on our YouTube channel.

Also, details are on the poster below which tells you where to send your photos and step counts.

The Big Walk Flyer

We’re going to add them all together and see how far around the world we have virtually walked.

We have always enjoyed taking a walk Down Memory Lane during Leeds Learning Disability Week at the fabulous Armley Mills. This year, of course, things need to be done differently so the team are working on a programme of online activities for you to enjoy.

We’ll bring you more details soon but, in the meantime, why not make a note of this event in your diary?

The team from Bramley Day Service is working hard to put together a programme of dance activities for the annual Leeds Learning Disability Week Day of Dance.

Wonder which guests will make an appearance?

As soon as the programme is available we’ll post it, so don’t forget to keep checking back here.

We love a good picnic at Aspire and don’t want to miss out on the annual Leeds Learning Disability picnic. So, this year we’re asking you to have a Picnic in Your Garden.  The details are on the flyer below:

Picnic and X Factor Flyer

We’ll reveal the winner of the Aspire X Factor Competition on the day.  Have you voted for your favourite(s) yet?

We’d love to see your photographs from your picnic and to share them on our Facebook page.  Fancy dress is welcome but entirely optional.