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Organisation: Willowbank Ltd |
Description: Willowbank is a rights-based service user-controlled organisation based in the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area and within the Southern Health and Social Care Trust catchments. Founded in 1962, we are constituted as a company limited by guarantee, with charitable recognition. Our ethos is one of empowerment and we have a well documented track record in service user involvement. Within the context of a community development ethos, we work with persons with physical disabilities and sensory impairments to maximise the opportunities for engagement to ensure their voice is listened to. This work is supported with robust training and mentoring support to ensure that persons with disabilities have the capacity to engage and are not used in a tokenistic manner. Sixty per cent of our Board of Directors are persons with disabilities, all of whom are trained to undertake the various roles within the board such as finance strategic planning etc. Service users are supported to sit on other boards locally and regionally and we have representatives on boards of local community development, transport and local authority organisations. One of our service users is a serving Equality Commissioner. Through our Lobbying Activism & Research Group (LARG) we deliver service user input to the social work degree at QUB, UU and the South West College. |
Contact name: Ann McGlone |
Address: Willowbank Community Resource Centre Carland Road Dungannon |
Postcode: BT71 4AA |
Tel: (028) 8772 2821 ext 3860 |
Fax: (028) 87727606 |
Website: www.willowbankcommunity.org (under construction) |
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Area of interest/expertise: Service user engagement, strategic planning |
Mission statement: Ø To work in partnership with persons with disabilities and users of Willowbank services to provide a supportive and empowering environment. Within a community development ethos we will support people in overcoming and removing barriers to inclusion. We will enable people through provision of appropriate training and learning to maximise their potential as citizens. Ø To promote the values of equal citizenship and active participation in the life of the community. Ø To work in partnership with persons with disabilities to ensure the optimum achievement of their potential. Ø To maximise the individual and group capacity of persons with disabilities. Ø To raise awareness of the issues affecting the lives of persons with disabilities and their carers. |
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