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- ECL helps break loneliness for Sylvia
- Bloomin' marvellous at Roundwood
- Boccia taken up by customers at Saffron Walden
- Customers put their gardening skills to the test
- National Scams Awareness Month: July
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- Local Bookrest Café to support adults with learning disabilities into employment opens in Loughton
- Delight at Hadleigh Park and Farm as sensory award opens up their facilities to more people
- ECL awarded as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer
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- Outstanding results for ECL across the board in recent CQC inspection
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- 31 years on the job and not one sick day
- Rise of the resting dragon
- Graffiti art makes it’s mark in Saffron Walden
- Local adults with learning disabilities ready for employment
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- Local drama group get ready to perform at Mercury Theatre
- Performance by adults with learning disabilities at Mercury Theatre
- Digital Boomers: Older people’s passion for technology is about to get an upgrade for more independent living, health and wellbeing in Essex
- Staff member saves customer's life
- Brand new sensory room opens in Colchester
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- ECL Canvey hosts Charity Day
- Ready to Work: ECL and Mitie partnership aims to help more people into employment
- Crafty Drama promote upcoming live show in Colchester's Culver Square
- Celebrating 25 years of supporting adults with learning disabilities in Maldon
- ECL Partner with Everyman Cinema to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- Christmas Fayre hosted by adults with learning disabilities
- The care of Essex residents secured this Christmas
- ECL partner with ASDAN
- Care workers volunteer at food bank
- Budding artists brighten up library with exhibition
- National recruitment campaign set to drive a new generation of carers
- Essex Cares rolls out innovative StoriiCare software
- ECL customer Rosa wins double gold at Special Olympics
- Upcoming performance by adults with learning disabilities at Mercury Theatre
- New vegan and gluten-free dishes on the menu at ECL Roundwood Café
- Lawrence learns new life-saving skills with Prince’s Trust
- Essex Cares Limited awarded CQC Outstanding rating
- A growing success for our customers in Loughton
- Community Equipment Service awarded CECOPS accreditation
- ECL appoints Michael McDonagh as new board Chairman
- ECL 10th anniversary and awards celebration
- Art at the Heart of our Wellbeing - a gallery by Mid Essex Day Opportunities
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- Brave Community Care Assistant, Paula, saves couple from blaze
- Team effort by Community Equipment
- Community Bed and Equipment Collections Request
- Day Opportunities stay connected with technology
- ECL launches Step to Home, a new temporary residential reablement service to ease hospital pressures
- ECL customers benefit from Alcove technology
- Essex Sensory Awareness Week 6-12 July 2020
- Sensory Service teams up with Colchester United
- Masks are now compulsory in many public settings
- ECL opens new day service for older people in Braintree
- Our response to COVID-19
- ECL appoints two new Non-Executive Directors
- ECL Chelmsford (Charles Dickens) achieves gold accreditation from Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling
- ECL announces Inclusive Employment Scheme
- ECL Clacton (Millicents) excels in Quality and Governance Assurance Assessment
- Spotlight on ‘life-changing’ services for sensory community during Essex Sensory Awareness Week
- Older People's Service at ECL Colchester (Maryland's) shines in Quality and Governance Assurance Assessment
- ECL announced as finalist for national awards
- ECL shortlisted in yet another prestigious industry award!
- ECL shortlisted for Caring UK Award
- ECL has won the prestigious award ‘Public Private Partnership’ at the Laing Buisson Awards
- ECL welcomes the Mayor of Chelmsford for a cream tea
- ECL staff attends Mental Health First Aid for Deaf people course
- Crafty Drama provides sneak preview of Picnic in the Priory performance
- Crafty Drama team are finalists in the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards
- ECL customers enjoy some pet therapy
- Disrupted phone lines
- ECL collaborates on campaign to empower people with sensory loss
- ECL Woodlands Crafty Drama receive accolade at the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards
- ECL Loughton customers thanked for their hard work at community garden
- ECL Crafty Drama perform for The Mayor and Mayoress in Colchester’s ruined Abbey
- Clacton MP impressed by Inclusive Employment in action
- ECL Service Manager is a finalist in the National Care Awards
- ECL Head of Quality and Governance wins a Social Care Leadership Award
- ECL sensory support service receives national charity commendation
- ECL Service Manager wins National Care Award for excellence in Dementia Care
- ECL launches pioneering Ward-led Enablement programme at ESNEFT Colchester Hospital site
- Mayor of Colchester ‘dares to care’ as part of fundraising campaign
- ELC’s Clinical team experience elderliness first-hand
- A day in the life of… an ECL Physiotherapist
- New café in County Hall takes on ECL Inclusive Employment customer
- Ward-led Enablement now being piloted in Mid and South Essex
- A day in the life of… our Inclusive Employer Engagement Lead
- Highfields Gardening Hub proves popular
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- Meet the ECL careers team at Asda in Harlow
- Crafty Drama Returns with "Feel the Beat"
- Meet the ECL careers team at Colchester Jobs Fair
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- Picnic in the Priory
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- ECL Tyrell's Tandoori Night
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- ECL Art Exhibition - Art at the heart of our wellbeing
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- ECL Chelmsford - the gold standard in dementia care
- National Eye Health Week
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