Hugh O’Donnell, former employee of VIAS, is walking the Menalon Trail in southern Greece to raise money for VIAS and the work they are doing! We are incredibly grateful to Hugh for doing this and hope to use the money raised to support people with autism and learning disabilities to have the same opportunities as […]
The funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Monday 19th September. VIAS would like to express our deepest condolences for her passing and wish King Charles III and all of the royal family all the best during this difficult time.
The Life I Want are looking for a Peer Worker to help plan, organise and run their meetings as well as support and encourage people who attend them. This is a good opportunity for you to meet new people, become engaged in social issues facing learning disabled and autistic people and help represent a group […]
The Life I Want were delighted to announce that they will continue to receive funding from the National Lottery Community Fund! They held an event at the Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre on the 1st September to celebrate the announcement. They even had a shot at playing drums! The Life I Want and it’s members also got […]
VIAS held a team day on Tuesday the 2nd of August at the Go-Centric offices to help the team understand our values as an organisation and how we can best represent them in what we do. The course included some fun exercises designed to help us get thinking about how our values reflect themselves in […]
Would you like to work with VIAS and help improve the lives of people with autism and learning disabilities? VIAS are currently looking to hire new members of our board. We are looking for people who have experience in things like finance, systems and HR to join us in improving our services and making a […]
VIAS has a new team member! We would like to introduce Tom Adams to the team! Tom joins us as a job coach working with David MacDonald on our project Triple E. Together they are bringing quality assistance to autistic and learning disabled people looking for work and employers wanting to create a more diverse […]
Over the years I have had the opportunity to talk to many parents who have sons or daughters with learning disabilities and/or autism who are struggling to support their children in mainstream schools. They chose a mainstream education over a more specialist environment because they believed that this was the best route to help their […]
The Life I want were delighted to hold their first in-person event of 2022 this week. This was a chance to showcase all that had been achieved over the past two years. It was also an opportunity for people to discuss the themes of the project and share their ideas. We will be using this […]
Jordan and Roxanne have been dating for a while now. Jordan is a Service Quality Director with Thera (Scotland). Prior to that he was a Consultant for Values Into Action Scotland and he and Roxanne met at The Life I Want. This is coordinated by VIAS and is the first person led Public Social Partnership […]
