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  • Care Talk Magazine

    Assist Trust have made the pages of Care Talk Magazine! See pages 22 and 23 to read how we’re supporting members with housing and independent living skills. https://www.caretalk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-march-caretalk.pdf      

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  • Annual General Meeting

      In real life…with real people… and tea and biscuits and healthy snacks! The AGM starts at 1pm on Wednesday 22nd February at Lazar House on Sprowston Road, and will last about an hour. We will look at our finances and plans for the future. We will talk about things we have done in the…

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  • Stepping Stones Podcast

    We are very excited to be able to share with you our guest appearance on The Stepping Stones Podcast, where a few of our members were discussing Halloween, food, stories and themselves. We would like to thank Stepping Stones for having us featured. Give it a listen below!

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  • The Assist Trust Drama Group’s Production of Romeo and Juliet

    ‘All the world’s a stage/And all the men and women merely Players’ During the summer, Lazar House was alive with the sounds of laughter, Shakespearean verse, and sword fighting as the Drama group rehearsed for their production of Romeo and Juliet. In the early weeks of the time table, the group members discussed staging a…

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  • Christmas Party Tickets On Sale!

    Our Christmas Party is on Friday 16th December. Tickets will be on sale from Monday 14th November to Friday 2nd December for £7 per person. This includes food, drinks and a great time!

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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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