The purpose of Heart of England Mencap is to empower people with a learning disability to optimise their potential and live fulfilling and independent lives. This is achieved through providing a wide range of support, enabling individuals to live independently whether that is through residential, supported living, respite, or community day care services. These are primarily delivered across Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
Our range of services includes supporting people to live independently within their own home or one of our homes or through community day activities. We offer short break services (respite services), enabling individuals to have some time away from home – perhaps just as a respite visit, a short holiday, or as a first step in learning how to live a more independent life.
Our charity prides itself on the fact that all support that we provide is tailored to meet their needs, enabling individuals to access meaningful support. All delivery is person centred to ensure that Heart of England Mencap genuinely facilitate the appropriate ways to support people to live the life they choose focusing on what an individual can do rather than their disability.
Our approach is to provide the right support in the right setting – facilitating individuals to develop independent living skills as well as ensuring clinical compliance, safety, and security. People will be supported to lead an active social life, with the reassurance of highly sensitive and person-centred support. This support is formally commissioned through a variety of commissioning frameworks. Our prime purpose is to empower the individuals we support live their lives to the fullest in the way that they find most enjoyable. Our mission is: Empowering. Enjoying. Living. Customers are supported to feel empowered to make their own decisions, living an enjoyable life, spent doing what they want to do as well, rather than purely focusing on what they need to do.
We do this in collaboration with the families of the individuals we support and through communication with our Board who share our completely person centred philosophy.

Robert Pearce Chair

Claire Amanda Mould Chief Executive

Why Heart of England Mencap is supporting Boardroom Apprentice

Heart of England Mencap highly value our Board, who have a very productive and greatly appreciated role within the organisation. We have supported two Boardroom Apprentices in the past, who having completed their apprenticeship are now permanent members of the Board. These apprentices are now thriving as Board members and making a valued contribution, drawing on their areas of expertise, to support the governance underpinning the organisation. We have, and continued to, support them to not only understand the core governance components of being a Trustee but how to make their own unique contribution through identifying their skill set and strengths and how this experience base can facilitate a meaningful and valued role on the Board. Heart of England Mencap are now keen to support another apprentice and not only develop their understanding of Board governance but identify and develop their skills and expertise so their own voice is heard and they feel genuinely valued. We are very happy to extend this support as the two previous apprentices have just been made Trustee champions, and a part of their Board role and are working with the executive team, in their specialist areas (medication and people and culture). This has benefited both the organisation and the ex-apprenticeships, now full Board members. We would relish the opportunity to offer this opportunity to another apprentice.

Location of Board and Committee Meetings

Alscot Office: 5 Church Green, Atherstone on Stour, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 8NE. Meet by the Park – Concorde House, 24 Warwick New Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 5JG

Frequency and timing of board/committee meetings

Board Meetings – quarterly: 9 am – 3 pm. (Concorde House) Finance Meeting – quarterly: 9.30am – 11.30 (via Teams), Assurance and Quality Meeting – quarterly: 9 am – 11 am (Alscot Office)

Date of Board Meetings (January – December 2025)

Board Meeting: 25th March 2025/ 24th June 2025/ 23rd September 2025/ 16th December 2025

Committee of the Boards and meeting dates (January – December 2025)

September 2025/ 25th November 2025. Finance Meetings: 18th March 2025/ 12th June 2025/ 11th September 2025/ 27th November 2025

Security checks

DBS Check is required

Payment of travel expenses

Yes