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The Alcohol Project

 

SHOUT have been given funding from Focus on Alcohol and The Robertson Trust to make a DVD and a training pack for people who work in pubs and clubs.

The DVDs will be about making people more understanding of people with a learning disability.

The SHOUT group will also offer training to people who work in pubs and clubs.

The DVDs will include information about what is a safe level of alcohol to drink and also about being safe when you do drink alcohol. You can watch our videos here.

The picture shows members of the SHOUT group getting a cheque from Ann of The Roberston Trust for £10,000.

This funding also allowed us to have a support worker for our group. She is Morag McKenzie who works for our group as part of her job at Volunteer Centre Angus.

 

We are currently in the second stage of our Alcohol project in the first stage we produced a DVD about alcohol safety issues for people with learning disabilities covering issues such as safe drinking practices, what to do when out and the experiences of the emergency services. In the second and current stage of our project we have employed two SHOUT members John Linton and Daniel Mullen to raise Learning Disability rights and issues to the licensing trade (Bars and Clubs), John and Daniel have decided to do this in two stages. In the first stage they will be visiting Resource Centers, Residential homes and other groups involving people with Learning Disablities to gather information on their personal feelings and opinions about their experiences (either positive or negative) when they visited pubs and clubs. John and Daniel will then assess the opinions of the learning disability community and then in the second stage will visit pubs and clubs and raise the issues brought to them by the learning disability community.