ARC (The Association for Real Change), built this website to help those who support self-advocates who have a learning disability.

This website gives supporters a chance to get in touch with each other via their own E- forum.

It also gives supporters a chance to share ideas and information about training.

Who Are ARC?

ARC is a membership organisation.  Our members are those who give a service to people with a learning disability.

ARC helps and supports it’s members through training, branch network meetings, E forums, information, workshops, conferences, etc.

To find out more about ARC, click here

Equipping My Supporter Project

Alison Wright co-ordinated an ARC project called Equipping My Supporter (EmS) between 2006 & 2007.

This project was funded by the Department of Health.

The EmS project followed on from work carried out by VIA (Values into Action).

VIA put together a training pack, called ‘Good Support’, which helps learning disability self-advocates to train their own new support staff.

During 2006, we talked and listened to people from learning disability self-advocacy groups, and  learning disability organisations.

We found that many groups have training to offer, but they do not have a website to tell other self-advocates and their supporters about it.

We decided to set up the Castanet website to help people to do so.