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Duke of Edinburgh (Young People)
Provides the opportunity for up to 6 young people with learning disabilities, aged between
18-25 to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. Each young person will be
supported to complete a personal programme of activities in 4 sections; volunteering,
physical, acquiring new skills and expedition activity.
This process will create meaningful opportunitites for the young people, allowing them to
achieve and learn new skills, and become more self-reliant and independent.
Location:
Open Hours:
Use of various community resources and
one weekend trip away
Various throughout the year
15 x 4 hour sessions and 2 x weekend
expeditions

What the Duke of Edinburgh group does
This group will provide the opportunity for up to 6 young people with learning disabilities
to participate in each Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award.
The Duke of Edinburgh Award allows young people from 18-25 years to develop existing
and new interests and life skills. Each young person will achieve an award by completing a
personal programme of activities in four sections i.e. volunteering, physical, acquiring new
skills and expedition activity. Each young person must do a minimum of 3 months activity
(or 12 hours altogether).
The young person also has to spend 3 months on one of the volunteering, physical or
skills sections. On average each young person will spent approximately 2 sessions a week
taking part in their activities. The young people who attend have varying levels of learning
disability and will be completing their bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award along with their
mainstream peers who attend the Stowe Centre Youth Club.
Each participant will learn new independent living and social skills. After a recent expedition
trip, where one young service user had just achieved their bronze award they said “this has
helped to change my life, I can now do things I thought I could never do”.
What does the group aim to achieve
• This project will help to ensure
the effective delivery of
partnership working and
increase the numbers of
young people with disability
who can access mainstream
Westminster youth provision.
• It will also create meaningful
opportunities for young people
with disabilities to achieve and
learn new skills, become more
self-reliant and independent
• To give young people new and
exciting experiences
• Increase self-awareness

Fees
You need to join as a member of LDN Living to access this group. There is no
membership fee for 2011/12.
Transport
Transport will be provided for this group on trips.
Applications to use this service
Applications to access the Duke of Edinburgh project can be made by young people (aged
14-19) who have little or no access to activities and social learning experiences outside of
their school day.
These can be made by the person themselves or can be referrals from family, schools or
internal and external professionals such as Westminster Youth referral group.
Enquiries can be made to:
Lorraine Naughton (LDN Living Service Manager)
The Westminster Society
16a Croxley Road
London
W9 3HL
Phone: 020 8968 2684 / 07866 304 385
Email: lnaughton@wspld.org
If you are interested in joining the Duke of Edinburgh project or any of the other groups
that LDN Living runs, please complete the Membership form which you can pick up
from the main office, or just give Lorraine a call to dicuss your requirments further.

What is LDN Living
The Transition Project is just one of the many projects that take place at LDN Living which is
run by The Westminster Society. This service is a learning disability network for London and
provides a range of group sessions and drop-in activities, as well as one-to-one support.
LDN Living has been designed to ensure a basic level of support for vulnerable adults
with learning disabilities who live independently and recieve little or no support from
other agencies. Beneficiaries also include children and young people aged 14-20 in out of
borough residential schools, older adults aged 50+ who live independently or at home with
a family member/carer, and parents/carers with a child or adult with a learning disability.
The service operates from various locations including our main Croxley Road site, City
Living Westminster, Lisson Green Play Centre and in partnership with other organisations
covering arts, employment, education and health.
The Westminster Society
The Westminster Society started in 1962 by a group of
parents who wanted to make sure that there would be
local services for their children and to make things better
for children and adults with learning disabilities living in
Westminster.
Over the years we have grown considerably and now
employ over 250 people and provide registered care
and supported living for over 100 adults with learning
disabilities as well as community support services,
leisure and holiday schemes, short breaks, a drop in,
playschemes, a family centre, a pre-school nursery, play
and youth services and a family support service.
If you would like more information on our services, please contact us:
Write: 16a Croxley Road, London, W9 3HL
Phone: 020 8968 7376 Email: westminstersociety@wspld.org
Visit: www.wspld.org.uk
Copyright © 2011 The Westminster Society for people with learning disabilities
Charity No: 801081. Company No: 2325273