LDN London is an award-winning charity providing services for people with a range of learning disabilities and their families.
We deliver services in Westminster, Camden, Islington, and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. We provide registered care, supported living, intervention and preventative services, short breaks, community services and domiciliary care for adults. We also provide family support services including transition services for children and young people with learning disabilities.
We have extensive experience in supporting people with disabilities, including people with complex needs and profound and multiple disabilities. We place special emphasis on promoting family relationships, as this is crucial to delivering successful services. We work to ensure that people with learning disabilities are valued as equal citizens, making decisions about their own lives at every available opportunity, no matter the level of their disability.
Our Values
We believe that people with learning disabilities have the right to:
For everyone we support our fundamental aim is to achieve positive outcomes, and support people to stay healthy, be safe and live well.
People who have a learning disability have the same rights as everyone else. However, we live in a society where the rights of people with a learning disability are continually reduced and denied.
We have a variety of different options to meet the needs of adults, children and young people with learning disabilities and their families.
Our Services
Family Support Services - Families matter to us.
Our Family Support Service provides support for parents and carers of children or adults with disabilities or learning disability in Westminster and Harrow. This support can be long term or one-off. The number of families receiving support from our family services team in 2018/19 was 423.
Early Help & Portage - Support at the right time.
Our early help and Portage service provides information for parents and helps them navigate the Education, Health, and Care Plan process. Portage is a home visiting educational service for pre-school children with SEND to enable children to reach their full potential in their earliest years.
LDN@Home - London living at home
Our housing services provide comfortable, safe, and homely surroundings, within supportive environments. We foster individual development and independence both at home and in the community with a variety of options from 24-hour support to a few hours a week based on individual needs and personalised packages of support.
We provide 3 registered care homes benefiting 16 adults with learning disabilities. Our supported housing services includes one-bedroom flats, shared living flats and houses across Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and Islington.
LDN4U Outreach - Support for you designed by you.
Our LDN4U scheme offers self-directed support for people with learning disabilities across London. This could be a couple of hours a week or 24-hour support per day. Our services are designed to give flexibility, control, and choice in the kind of support people receive.
LDN4U operates in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, and Islington.
Short Breaks and Respite Service
Time for you. This service is for any adult with learning disabilities, mental health needs, autism, and complex long-term health conditions. Our short breaks include building-based support in Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
These services provide planned and emergency building-based respite for up to 16 adults with learning disabilities as well as up to 150 hours per week of outreach support.
LDN Connect - At the heart of the community.
We connect opportunities for people with learning disabilities with their community including businesses, voluntary organisations, education and employment services, and faith and culture groups as examples. We want to raise awareness of the talents and skills of people we support as equal contributors.
Alice Gestetner Fund
The fund provides financial assistance to families in need and on low income who have children and adults with learning disabilities, as well as individuals with a learning disability in financial hardship access the Borough of Westminster.
Grants are provided to purchase things such as beds, carpets, washing machines, furniture, sensory equipment, and holidays.
