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Help us keep our life-changing project, Love4Life alive. This project gives people with learning disabilities a chance to socialise in safety, away from the abuse they can experience. It also ends the devastating loneliness & isolation many are at risk of, which can lead to mental health problems.
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Situation
The harsh reality is 9/10 people with a learning disability have been a victim of violence or aggression from a stranger and are highly vulnerable to financial or sexual exploitation when socialising. Consequently many people with learning disabilities are afraid to go out and feel isolated and alone. This is a serious problem because, as the Royal College of GPs has highlighted; people who are lonely are 50% more likely to die prematurely than people with a good social network.
Solution
Love4Life (L4L), is a friendship and dating service for adults with learning disabilities and autism, currently based in Hampshire. Some members travel from other counties, sometimes over 100 miles, so desperate are they to socialise. Membership is 104 an