Sponsored walk a great success
The sponsored walk around Arthurs Seat was a great success, we can now reveal the final total with all the donations counted and it is a whopping £800.70!!!
Thanks so much to the amazing students and staff, your support means the world to everyone at UPMO and a special thanks to Sandy Sutherland and Dougie Craigie who did a great job organizing everything.
All the money the students raise goes into the Student fund and the students themselves decide how they want to use the money to make life at UPMO even better.
June 15th—19th is going to be a week to remember!
To celebrate Learning Disability Week 2015 Upward Mobility is joining with other organisations across Scotland to celebrate people with learning disabilities. We have a week of events, awards; openings and showcases. All events are open invite and at Edinburgh Palette unless stated. Please RSVP using the contact details at the bottom.
Monday 15th June
2:00pm – Music Performance – from Monday afternoon music group.
2:40pm – Musical Theatre Performance – The latest work from the fantastic Monday afternoon Musical Theatre group!
Tuesday 16th June
11:20am – Drama-Explorers – stories from our expeditions across the world!
12:00pm – Music Performance – from Tuesdays morning’s music group.
2:00pm – Edinburgh Tales – short films
2:40pm – Cheerleading –Dancing!
3:20pm – Music Performance – more music!
Wednesday 17th June
11:20am – Dance – Dance presentation from our Wednesday group!
12:00pm – Dance – Video highlights from the Dance workshops!
2:00pm – Music Songwriting – An original songs showcase!
3:20pm – Music Performance – Wednesday afternoon music!
Thursday 18th June
10:40am – Current Affairs – An Egyptian Experience!
12:00pm – Picture City Drama! – A sneak preview of the new Picture City show!
2:00pm – V.I.P Guests! Much celebrated author, Ian Rankin, will be launching our wonderful new iMuse. Then the Outward Mobility Launch – An ex citing new project from UpMo!
2:30pm – 3:45pm – Annual General Meeting with Student Presentation, film/ performance – Input from involvement group, Student Reps Committee Including a performance from the one and only School of Rock!
4pm – Trustee meeting
Friday 19th June
10:40am – Percussion Group – Performance Drum and fun!
11:00am – Royal Caledonian Grow & Learn graduation ceremony – Norton House Hotel,EH28 8LX
11:20am – Music Performance – Rock with the Friday group
2:00pm – An audience with Donald Todd– Songs and stories.
Contact Susan Stevens, on 0131 661 4411 or sstevens@upwardmobilityproject.com for more information – Events subject to change, please call to confirm.
Drinking Water = Doing Good
Almost since the beginning UPMO has been using water fountains from AquAid, a social enterprise who have raised over £10m since 2000 and used it to bring clean, safe drinking water to over 1.5m people across Africa.
After using a certain amount of water organisations get to name a new well. Here is the well UPMO are able to name.
What should we put on the well UPMO has supported?
Charter For Involvement lands at UPMO!
We were pleased to welcome Lynnette Linton, NIN Chair and other special guests to our most recent student forum, the students discussed how they wanted be more involved with UPMO and how we could work together to implement the points in the National Involvement Network charter for involvement.
Here are the main statements of the charter:
1. We must be at the heart of any plans about our lives
2. We have the right to live our lives independently
3. We want to be involved in decisions made by the organisations that plan and run our support
4. We want to be involved in events run by the organisations that plan and run our support
5. We must be involved in our communities.
6. We must be able to speak about how our support is working for us and what would be better.
7. We want to be involved in choosing the people who support us.
8. We want to give information and training to staff at all levels.
9. We want to be involved in writing policies that affect us and making them easier to understand.
10. We want to be involved in decisions made by the organisations that plan and run our support
11. We want to be involved in events run by the organisations that plan and run our support
12. We want to be involved with ‘Speaking-up’ groups.
13. We want to take part in national and local campaigns.
14. We have the right to make formal complaints if we need to.
Watch for more developments as we integrate these into everything we do at UPMO.
Movers and shakers at Upward Mobility
Congratulations to Tony and Clare on their recent appointments as team leaders.
Rob Flett will be starting as the new Staff Team Manager / Outward Mobility co-ordinator. This is an exciting new post is part funded by a grant from Shared Care Scotland for a year, with the possibility of a second year of funding if we can move towards making the post self sufficient financially. This will mean lots of work looking at how we charge for the places on our Outward Mobility trips.
Chinese new year Dragons!
The recent exhibition of art and craft celebrating the Chinese new year has just finished, for those that missed it; here’s a wonderful photo.
UPMO students in Art Exhibition
UPMO Students will exhibit recent artwork at an Art Exhibition in Gallery One, St Margaret’s House From 29th May to 21st June. The exhibition will explore what ‘Madness’ means and has meant. The exhibition will also feature the work of Mad People’s History, Oor Mad History,Asylum Magazine and Advocard.
Mad World: An Exhibition on Sane People in Insane Situations
From individuals interred for their homosexuality, to women who wanted divorces; from teenagers who wanted to write for a living, to malnutrition – discover the history and explore if you can logically spot madness.
Check the amazing videos of the December fashions shows, now online atwww.edinburghpalette.co.uk enjoy the fast forwarding!