spanning a full range of interests and perspectives.
Members find unity in helping each other to create a
stong voice for the learning disabled community. Be Heard holds weekly meetings,
and gives feedback on various local, regional, and national intitiatives relating to
adults with learning disabilities.
Find out more about some of Be Heard's members below.
 | Hiya
My Name is Dean and I am a new member of Be Heard in Bracknell.
I am 22 years old and I am a volunteer youth worker for a local youth centre in Bracknell. I have a wide range of knowledge and skills that I put into use in my local community. I pride myself on being able to do my best in every way possible.
I have lived on my own for newly two years. I love being indepentant, it makes me feel really good about myself.
I reason I wanted to get myself heard is that disabled people lifes are hard at the best of times and I want to make it easier for them in every single way I can because disabled people have a lot to offer and I feel strongly that we should be listened to.
If you wanto to learn more about me then please click on the link. www.dimensions-uk.org/blogdean/ |
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My name is Keith. I like to
watch I play football on a Wednesday with Nigel. I also like to work on a Friday. I also work very hard doing my job. I'm hoping to move into my new house in May or April. I don't know when exactly, but it won't be long. My favourite team is Chelsea, and I've been supporting them since I was 15 years old. I am now 47 years old. I
like going to Drama on Monday nights and I am a good actor. I
had
a good time acting in the United Voices Advocacy play. I was
a
houligan on the bus and I threw things and made fun of a person with a
learning disability to help people learn about Hate Crime. |
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- Sophie Age - 22 Family – Mum lives locally and a sister who is at University in York and brothers who live in Milton Keynes and Sheffield Likes - Bowling, Heavy metal and rock music - favourite band - Bullet For My Valentine Favourite food - Chinese takeaways Favourite drink - Pepsi Max Good at being a good friend to lots of people Dislikes Rollercoasters, Thunder and big spiders Likes to make own choices and has recently got a Kitten called Mitzi Ambitions – To have a regular job which I will get paid for and buy my own flat. |
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Name: Naomi
(it's a
Jewish name from the Bible) Age: 29 I like drawing and horse riding. My talents come from my mum because she did these when she was young. I stayed with my mum until 2003 in Bracknell. I went to four different schools in Germany, Guilford, Windsor, Bracknell. I have family in New Zealand. I have a penpal in Thailand. I am Jewish and like to go to Synogogue. I used to work on a farm. I know how to do things like mucking out anything and anything about sheep. I worked on a farm in New Zealand. I have a boyfriend. I like Be Heard because I can talk to some people there. |
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My
name is Mandy, and I
live in Bracknell. Before I came to Bracknell I lived in
Warfield. I used to live in London with my mum and my brother
and
my step-dad. I lived over a shop at Benson. And
then I
moved to High Wycomb, then Crowthorn, then at Great Hollands.
I
also lived with my mum at Forest Park and in Wokingham, at the top of
the hill. I love looking at magazines and keeping pictures from Newspapers. Also playing Tina Turner. I dressed up as Tina Turner when I used to work at Tesco. I also used to work at Sainsbury and other places. I liked working. I used to go to school at Cooper's Hill and High Wycomb. I went to the Learning Disability Today exhibition in London and liked it very much. I also went to Slough to help the social work students at TVU. I like doing drawing and art--paintings and colouring in. I like sitting out in the garden when it's hot weather. I'm excited that the housing people will alter my back garden, so I will have a patio. I am a member of Be Heard. It is nice and you can help people and have meetings. It's good there. And I like going there. |
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My
name is Tony.
I went to the Learning Disability Today exhibition in London
this
year and I loved meeting people there. I loved the Christmas
decorations and the vendors that were upstairs. I like to go to Christmas parties. I can't wait until Christmas day to open my presents up. Some of my favourite things to do are playing my music and my carols on the cd player. I like Abba and Shaky Steven. I like programs on television, like war films, and Daniel Craig James Bond films. I also like Lee Marvin. I like to grow things in garden, but not when it's cold. I was born in 1940 in Binfield. I moved to Bracknell in 2008. I like the Be Heard meetings and sometimes I get to be chairperson. I like Strictly Come Dancing and I am a good dancer! I like to dance at the Ark on Mondays and at Club Marmalade. I also go to the Friday Night Project to dance. I am engaged to Mandy. We met at the workshop, Brock. I asked Mandy to go out with me and we got engaged. |
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My
Name is Christopher and
I am 29. I am member of the Be Heard advocacy group I have been in it
since it first started. We had 8 members then and
now we
have a lot more. I am chairperson for the group meeting. We have the
meeting in the Tea House. A few years ago I was on the interview panel
to choose a Development Leader. The best person we thought was David. We
have an office in Bracknell near the library where he works
and
he has done a lot good work for the group. Coming to the advocacy
group, I have learned to speak up more. I have family all over the world. I like foreign food best of all. I also like sport and support Southampton in football. I like cricket and support England as well as Surrey and Hampshire. I like Tennis as well and my favourite player is Andy Murry. I also like Motor racing and my best driver is Lewis Hamilton. I also have my Mum and Dad in Spain and my sister and her husband in Cornwall. My sister is doing a PhD in Physiology she will be a Doctor if she passes. I live in a flat but next year I am moving to a bungalow with different friends. I like Sky TV and have a computer with the internet. I will just tell you I had a lot problems in the past but they are now sorted out and I am doing very well. |
 | Hello my name is Ginny. I enjoy bead making where i make and sell my jewellery. I have sold my jewellery at Headspace and at Craft fairs. I have been a member of Be Heard for a long time, I enjoy meeting up with my friends and making new friends. I have support on Monday for Be Heard meetings and I also have support on a Friday for health action meetings. I am part of health action group. We train carers how to make health action plans with the people they support. I have a job where i work in an office. I work for Bracknell Community team for People with Learning Disabilities (ctpld). I enjoy my job, I like the friendly people, we have a good laugh. I have interviewed new students who wanted to be social workers. I enjoyed this because I think we picked good people that would make good Social Workers. I am part of Speak Up and Make a Difference. Speak Up and Make a Difference teaches me how to listen to other people and how to run meetings. I am on the Partnership board for Dimensions. Dimensions provide me my support. We talk about what is happening in Dimensions and how to make things better and share good news and information. I go to Regional advisory Forum once a month. We talk about things that people want discussed in the partnership board and then I pass this information on to the Partnership Board. |