In 2011, the Social Care Institute for Excellence defined what it considered would be excellence in approach to social care. They said that to achieve outstanding care giving, a provider should place the people it supports at the heart of its services, ensuring that people spend their time “purposefully and enjoyably” and they went on…
In 2011, the Social Care Institute for Excellence defined what it considered would be excellence in approach to social care. They said that to achieve outstanding care giving, a provider should place the people it supports at the heart of its services, ensuring that people spend their time “purposefully and enjoyably” and they went on…
Our fifth ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Christmas stocking and Gift Wrap Competition Today’s ubu ‘Sparkle’ Event comes from Louth in the East Midlands. “As part of our celebrations for Christmas I chatted with some of my friends about popping around to a place I used to work as a volunteer” says Emma, who is enabled…
Our fourth ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Face Paint and Homemade Christmas Mask Competition The reason ubu holds it’s annual ‘Sparkle’ events at Christmas is that as a caring group of people we want to find ways to see and then act on where we could spread some Christmas cheer in our local communities. The people…
Our third ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Homemade Cupcake and Biscuits Competition Tragically a homeless young man passed away on 5 November in Leigh town centre. He was on his own, cold and lost, not knowing how to find help. It was a shocking story which touched the hearts of many people who live in the…
Our second ‘Sparkle’ Event and the Homemade Snowmen and Angels Competition Our seasonal event, the 14 days of Christmas has become a ubu tradition now. This year the people we serve and ubu team members wanted to find a theme to bring us all together. We agreed on ‘Unite@Christmas’ because we all felt that the…
Today marks the beginning of our seasonal event, the 14 days of ubu Christmas. This year the people we serve, ubu team members and others have got together to help make real our theme for this year, ‘Unite@Christmas’. For many people, this season is defined by a whole host of different ideas and beliefs. This…
Last Saturday I went again to my weekly cooking class at Jamie Oliver’s workshop in Leeds. When I got there I started by washing my hands with special hygienic soap. I know how important this is and it’s become part of my cooking routine. Then we were ready to make this week’s recipe which was…
“Hello, my name is Anthony, I’ve been enabled by ubu in Leeds for a while now and I wanted to share my story and how I’ve been enabled to create a life with greater independence. For years I’ve refused to go out into the community for fear of people looking at me. I have problems…
In Lancashire, people enabled by ubu to live with a greater independence decided they would like to host a Halloween party for themselves. Offering an opportunity for everyone to get creative, to get dressed up in their spookiest costumes and get ready for a night of ultimate treating. “Every year we generally go somewhere else…
Last year, Charlotte, a young lady enabled by ubu to live her life with more independence, visited York to watch a show at the theatre and stay overnight. This year she said that she wanted to do it all over again. “I loved it so much last year I wanted to go again this year,…
Hello everyone, my name is Sarah and if you’ve been reading my blog you’ll know that I’ve been going to regular cooking classes which are organized by Jamie Oliver, the famous television cook. In my last few posts I wrote about what we’ve learnt in these classes, how you can cook the dishes we have…