Easter Newsletter 2020

How you can help us

In these deeply uncertain times, we need your support more than ever.

Donate

We need to grow our levels of unrestricted funding so that we can respond appropriately to the ever evolving crisis, which is likely to have even more devastating impacts over time. We know that some of you are experiencing financial uncertainty yourselves so please only give if you are able to. Any donation is hugely appreciated. Ongoing direct debits are even better as they provide us with much needed stability so that we can plan more effectively for the future.

Work or Volunteer for Us

If you’re out of work or a student whose university, school or college has closed, we’d love you to consider joining us as an assistant or volunteer: https://www.larche.org.uk/assistants

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Latest

L’Arche Advent Retreat: The Sacrament of the Encounter

Regional Leader, L'Arche UK

We seek a new Regional Leader to be responsible for four Communities, and to support the development of L’Arche in Scotland.

Live – In Assistant (Residential Care Worker)

L'Arche live-in assistants live and work in our Communities with and alongside people with learning disabilities. They provide them care and support.

Rebound Books: A Community adapting through Covid

L'Arche Brecon's project 'Rebound Books' has been creating beautiful items from discarded books for the past decade. When Covid-19 hit, they decided to adapt the way they work. Read about how they gave back through the global pandemic.

Live-in assistants

L'Arche live-in assistants live and work in our Communities with and alongside people with learning disabilities. They provide them care and support. Apply here.

Join us as an assistant

Spend a year as an assistant and we will give you an experience of difference that will change your life.

L'Arche in the UK

There are eleven L’Arche Communities based across the UK, where persons with and without learning disabilities live together. Volunteers and care workers are providing support. They try to promote Jean Vanier philosophy. All faiths are welcomed.

What we do

In a world that values winning, L’Arche Communities are places where people with and without learning disabilities can discover who they are and not just what they can do.

Statement from L'Arche, following the verdict at the inquest into the death of Joe Ulleri

Speaking outside the Coroner’s Court in Manchester, Kevin Coogan, Community Leader of L’Arche Manchester, read out the following statement on behalf of L’Arche.

Jean Vanier: Biography

Jean Vanier founded L'Arche in 1964, after becoming aware of the plight of thousands of people with learning disabilities who were institutionalised in France. He was an inspiring teacher whose life was testament to a radically different way of living and being in the world. He created a Community where people with and without learning disabilities were living together.

Summer in the Forest

Summer in the Forest is a full-length feature film about our founder Jean Vanier and the L’Arche communities in Trosly, France and Bethlehem. It tells how two L’Arche communities, though quite different from those in the UK, share our common values, and shows how people with learning disabilities and assistants / care workers that support them are living together.

L’Arche statement following the recent BBC Panorama documentary and the release of the CQC report into the detainment of people with learning disabilities

The Panorama programme aired by the BBC on Wednesday 22nd May showing the abuse of people with learning disabilities, and the recently published CQC report revealing the detainment of people with learning disabilities and autism in ATUs (Assessment and Treatment Units), once again reveals the appalling mistreatment and abuse experienced by some of society’s most vulnerable people.

Supported living

While some individuals wish to live in a home with other people, others prefer to be supported to live independently. At L’Arche we help people to choose a way of life that feels right for them, and for their families.

Support Assistant, L'Arche London

40 hours per week. Permanent contract.