Eccleston is an avid charity worker, becoming a Mencap charity ambassador on 28 April 2005, and is also a supporter of the British Red Cross.

Whiley is a celebrity ambassador to Mencap, a UK charity that works to support people with learning difficulties.

The Royal Mencap Society is a charity based in the UK that works with people with a learning disability.

Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers.

Mencap is currently campaigning on the following issues:

Mencap, along with 14 other organisations, is a member of the Learning Disability Coalition.

The chief executive of Mencap is Mark Goldring, succeeding Dame Josephine Williams on 1 November 2008.

He also edited, compiled and contributed to Gullible's Travails, an anthology of travel stories by famous people for the Mencap Blue Sky Appeal.

Mencap also provides help and support through supported living, supported employment, respite services, organised activities, systemic and individual advocacy, and outreach support.

Every summer since 1982 sixth formers and former pupils have run the Oundle School Mencap holiday, a residential holiday for children with a range of learning disabilities and now a highly respected charity in its own right.

His sons ' condition influenced the direction of his career, and he took a strong interest in the affairs of disabled people, being vice-chairman of the Parliamentary all-party disablement group, vice-president of Disability Wales, vice-president of Mencap ( Wales ), former president of the Spastics ' Society of Wales and sponsor of the Disabled Persons Act in 1981.

Conversely, learning disability charity Mencap praised the soap, saying the storyline will help to raise awareness.

On 23 July Duran Duran's charity concert at Villa Park 1983 took place in aid of Mencap.

He was chairman of Mencap from 1978, and president from 1982 to 1988.

In 1980, he retired from acting, and became Secretary-General of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults ( Mencap )-it became “ The Royal Society ” the following year-and in 1987 became its Chairman.

Since 2002 the Society has been officially called the “ Royal Mencap Society ”, with Rix serving as its President.

His 80th birthday in 2004 marked the start of a year of fundraising and publicity for Mencap.

Mencap published a report warning that similar abuse could be going on elsewhere and calling for the closure of all large institutions far from people ’ s families.

She hosts the Little Noise Sessions concerts, in aid of the Mencap charity.

For instance, we provided a holiday for some Mencap children whose hard earned funds were stolen by thieves.

Mencap works collaboratively, fighting for equal rights, campaigning for greater opportunities and challenging attitudes and prejudice.

Mencap provides advice and support to meet people's needs throughout their lives, as an individual membership organisation with a local network of more than 450 affiliated groups.

Since 1969 the Society has been commonly known by the abbreviation " Mencap " ( presumably from Mentally Handicapped ) and, in 2002, its full legal name was shortened to the Royal Mencap Society.

In 1986, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother became the patron of Mencap and in 2004 The Countess of Wessex became Mencap's patron.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.