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A person with a learning disability learning how to take a photo on their phone with Innovate Trust's Take Charge project

Take Charge

Take Charge is an Innovate Trust project in Rhondda Cynon Taf, aiming to improve employment skills and wellbeing.

Our Take Charge project is open to anyone over the age of 18 who has a learning disability or a work-limiting health condition and is not currently working.

A person with a learning disability learning how to take a photo on their phone with Innovate Trust's Take Charge project

About Take Charge

Take Charge offers the opportunity for people with learning disabilities and other additional needs to develop work-related skills, build confidence and to help get that bit closer to employment by finding the right volunteering or learning opportunity.

We tailor sessions to your needs. We can work with people on a 1-1 basis or offer group sessions.

Take Charge group sessions are a great way of meeting new people and developing social skills.

Project feedback

Two friends smiling and the camera while holding up marshmallows on sticks ready to roast the marshmallows

Take Charge helped me with building my confidence, using zoom, and meeting new people. It got me out and making new friends and it helped me get a paid job

Key elements

  • Support to find a suitable volunteering or learning opportunity
  • Support with applications forms
  • Mock interviews
  • CV Writing
  • Developing presentation skills
  • Environmental Awareness
  • Digital Inclusion
  • Equal Opportunities 
  • Money Management
  • Confidence building
  • First Aid
  • Fire Safety
  • BSL and Makaton
  • Conduct at work
  • Working as a team
  • Volunteering
  • Using public transport
  • Overcoming barriers to work