00:00This is my community.
00:08My name is Lou Mackenzie and I'm the community partner for the Mencap My Community pilot in Carrick,
00:14Fergus. What we've really noticed as a result of My Community are the existing organisations
00:18coming together and working outside of their own sectors, starting to share resources,
00:23refer each other to each other's group. Part of the work that we've been doing in Carrick is to
00:27seed fund ideas. So one of the things has been the garden up at Carrick Manor and that's been
00:32a group of people come together from different sectors again to work together and establish a
00:36garden where the community can gather and Chris, one of our connectors, has been really involved
00:40in that garden since the start. My name is Chris White. I'm a community connector through Mencap.
00:45This is in Carrick Manor, in Carrick, Fergus it is. It's for the residents that are older people
00:51come and come out and do some gardening projects. Raised beds are raised up the way for so the
00:56wheelchair people can come in. Somebody said George played the guitar, we've got him a guitar and we
01:01had a wee sing song in here. There's a day centre called The Base which is funded by the Northern
01:08Health Trust. Sadly they lost one of their members last year due to heart problems and David, one of
01:13our connectors, thought maybe Defibrillator would be a lovely tribute to him. It's been put on site,
01:18it's been paid for by our seed funding. People with learning disability who live and work there
01:21have been trained in using the defibrillator as well so it's not just a piece of equipment that
01:26hopefully is never used but people have been given skills and confidence they know what to
01:29do in that situation should it sadly happen again. The best thing that has happened in Carrick,
01:34the defib arriving here on site so that'll save lives hopefully.
01:41We did an informal audit of the time because we thought what's good about our time and one
01:46of the connectors David noticed that there were lots of steps into the shops. 40% of the town
01:50centre shops had some type of accessibility issue so we came up with a campaign called Ring for Ramp
01:56so out of those 40% of the town centre shops that have access issues we've supplied 50% of those.
02:03What we've really noticed as a result of my community are the sort of existing
02:07organisations coming together. This is Carrick Fergus and this is my community.
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