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  • Warner Bros Studio Tour

    Our Muggle Magic Group of our members have just been on an exciting trip to Harry Potter World! I spoke with a few members to get their comments on the outing; I spoke with Fran, a Slytherin, who said her favourite part was seeing the scary magical creatures from the Basilisk to the giant spider…

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  • Updated Covid 19 risk assessment

    National guidelines have changed in regards to Covid 19, with all obligations to test and isolate becoming advisory only. However, at Assist, we have decided that we need to maintain many of our Covid 19 precautions due to the vulnerability of the members attending. Please see the updated Assist Trust Covid 19 Risk Assessment for…

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  • Assist Trust AGM video

    Our second virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM), held on Wednesday 23rd February was a great success! Don’t worry if you missed this because you’re able to watch our AGM video below, which features photos, video clips and interviews with some of our members.    

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  • Covid precautions update

    The Assist Trust will be keeping all current Covid related precautions in place for the next month, at least until the end of March 2022, in order to properly assess the situation and decide on appropriate next steps. Managers will be contacting all families and carers over the coming weeks to discuss plans and we…

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  • Assist Trust travel training

    Travel training at Assist Trust Assist Trust has been providing travel training programmes with members for a number of years and over time this travel training process has successfully evolved into what it is (and what we do) today. When the pandemic arrived in March 2020 (like many things in life) all of our travel…

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  • Assist Trust AGM

    Please come and join us at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd February for the Assist Trust AGM! The 2022 Assist Trust Annual General Meeting will be launched at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd February 2022 as a live Zoom event (with some recorded content) and will be available to view after that date. The Assist Trust AGM…

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  • Assist Trust reopening on Monday 10th January 2022

    Assist Trust will reopen building based services on Monday 10th January 2022, as planned, with the following precautions remaining in place: Temperature checks before individuals enter the buildings. All individuals to wash hands thoroughly as they enter buildings and high standards of personal hygiene to be maintained at all times. Masks are to be worn…

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  • Assist Trust deferred reopening notice

    Assist will not be reopening building based services on Tuesday 4th January 2022 as planned, but will defer this until the following Monday, 10th January. This is to allow a full assessment of the situation at the time and to give a better gap between Christmas gatherings and the resumption of face to face services.…

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  • Supporting Norfolk County Council

    Some of our members have been completing the booklet ‘What life is like for disabled and autistic people in Norfolk’. This will be fedback to The Public Office and Norfolk County Council to help with getting a better understanding of people who use social care and their families.

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  • Money raised for Christmas

    We raised £1753.40 for the Christmas party!!!! We did this through walking/cycling/swimming/running 10,028 miles in 13 weeks. We had planned to walk as far as Christmas island (near Indonesia) but ended up travelling as far as south east Australia!

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