Learn With Ess

The aim of the organisation is to tackle the lack of disability awareness within society and do it in a way that isn’t blatantly labelled as disability awareness. We’ll have people in classrooms learning about braille, how it works; what guide dogs are; what learning difficulties, such as autism and ADHC are and how we can help to make those people’s lives easier who have these conditions. After the education part, workshops in classrooms, they go into the sports hall, where they’ll have a go at some Paralympic sports. They’ll try goalball, they’ll try blind football and wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby so, when they have that blindfold on or when they’re in that wheelchair, they can appreciate what it’s like to have a disability.” “Doing this in the mainstream, with people who work in education or people who work in corporate, they can see first-hand what it’s like. And I’ll say to them: ‘Okay, at the end of your session you can take your blindfold off. But for somebody who’s blind, that’s on all the time. They’re not taking that blindfold off.’ I think that helps them to appreciate it more. Finally, the speaking element involves a motivational speaker from their field of work or from their local community, who will be able to speak to them about their own story, and hopefully that will give educational institutions - from primary schools all the way up to universities and further - and corporate organisations a chance to use this as a fun activity day, an inset day or a learning experience or team-building, that will also hopefully prove to be an experience that’ll last a lifetime.” The workshops are tweeked and tailored to clients, which vary from staff / students in schools, colleges and universities, recreational and professional sports clubs and small / medium businesses.