Lifeskills
Education & Skills
We want to help people with learning difficulties to live more independently by offering free visits to our hands-on safety centre.
About this cause
The Lifeskills charity is an amazing learning environment using a realistic life-size “village” to teach vital skills for everyday life. By taking part in activities on our realistic scenarios, which include houses, a road, shop, dark alleyway and a railway line, visitors can actually experience difficult or dangerous situations and learn how to deal with them. Accidents kill about 14,000 people a year across the UK and seriously injure more than 700,000 a year in England alone. Our aim is to secure low injury rates without compromising health or quality of life. Our programmes target those most at risk of accidental injury, primarily Year 6 Primary School children (10-11years), adults with learning difficulties, children with special educational needs, older people, and 0-5 year olds.
How this cause brings people in the community together
Helping people with learning difficulties to gain independent living skills means they will need less support from family, carers or support services and enables them to play a greater role in their community. Learning about safer, healthier lifestyles also helps to tackle problems like accidental injury and obesity and alleviate the associated cost to services such as care homes and the NHS.