Month: May 2025

The Include Champions Group is a lived experience consultancy team, generating ideas, feedback and free accessible resources on important topics including the Mental Capacity Act and Inclusive Communication.

Between us, group members have real world experience in of learning disabilities, autism and other communication needs.

Our dedicated group members meet every week via Zoom, and there is always something important to discuss, analyse and provide feedback on.

The Champions produced an Easy Read to explain more about what the group does and why: We are the Champions

Free Easy Read Resources:

About Include

• The Include Champions
• The Include Choir
• Stroll and Sign
• The Big Give Challenge

About Inclusion

• Coproduction
• Listening Skills
• Inclusive Communication
• Reasonable Adjustments
• Sensory Needs : reasonable adjustments
• Recent history : learning disabilities
• Supporting people with using Easy Read

Easy Read Activities

• TV Quiz
• Easter Quiz
• Halloween Quiz
• Christmas Quiz
• Festive Craft

Easy Read Wellbeing

• Mindfulness
• Healthy Eating
• Internet Safety
• Helping others helps you
• Mental Wellbeing
• Healthy Body

Easy Read Topics

• Voting
• Ramadan
• Racism
• Finance

Include’s Stroll and Sign service combines inclusive social opportunities and speech therapy-based communication with gentle exercise in the natural world. 

People with and without learning disabilities / autism, their support staff, family carers and the wider community are welcomed on short accessible walks which explore the natural environment, enhancing physical and mental wellbeing and promoting calm.

During the walks, we socialise and enjoy relaxed conversation; we also pause to be mindful, observe and discuss the natural world around us – teaching skills to support inclusive communication, including Makaton signing. We might enjoy a treasure hunt or create digital chat books, which people can use to help talk about their experience. 

  

Your invite
Would you like to join a Stroll and Sign session with us? Everyone is welcome, with or without a disability. Our aim is to increase inclusion in the local community beyond our services so we really welcome attendees from all walks of life (excuse the pun!) who are keen to benefit from nature, learn new skills and build a more welcoming community for all. It’s a really lovely relaxed thing to do on a Saturday. We meet once a month and go for a stroll somewhere green and beautiful in Surrey – sometimes people bring their dogs. 

The upcoming dates are on our calendar.

A film about Stroll and Sign