Learning Disability

Adults with learning disabilities who attend Diagrama Foundation’s Community Services at Duckyls Farm have proven they could give this year’s Channel 4 The Great Pottery Throw Down competitors some serious competition after taking part in a pottery activity on the farm. Set in an area of outstanding natural beauty, 100-acre Ducklys Farm provides a choice…

This Valentine’s Day, residents of Diagrama Care Home at Duckyls Farm are spreading love and kindness in a unique way by hiding keyrings adorned with crochet hearts around West Hoathly, Crawley Down and East Grinstead. Duckyls Farm, a residential care home for adults with learning disabilities, is set on 100 acres of beautiful countryside and…

  Adults with learning disabilities supported by Diagrama Foundation enjoyed a truly magical afternoon when the cast of Cinderella, this year’s Chequer Mead Theatre pantomime, visited Duckyls Farm near East Grinstead on Thursday 11 December. The performers arrived in full costume, entertaining everyone with songs from the show, festive Christmas carols, and plenty of pantomime…

Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm, near East Grinstead is celebrating the arrival of 105 native broadleaf saplings, generously donated by the Woodland Trust, an important step in their ongoing mission to restore the land, improve safety, and create a thriving environment for people, livestock, and wildlife. Diagrama Community Services at Duckyls Farm offers Day…

Jason, a resident at Duckyls Farm, a specialist care home for adults with learning disabilities operated by the charity Diagrama Foundation, recently fulfilled a long-held dream: embarking on a spiritual pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a world-renowned Marian shrine in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The eight-day trip was Jason’s first international holiday in many years, made possible through…

Diagrama Community Services, part of Diagrama Foundation is inviting applications for a unique role that combines hands-on farming experience with meaningful care work. The Care Farm and Community Instructor role at Duckyls Farm, in an area of outstanding natural beauty near East Grinstead, offers the chance to use livestock and farming skills to support adults…

This autumn, Community Services at Duckyls Farm, part of Diagrama Foundation’s Day Opportunities programme, is celebrating a bumper pumpkin harvest, all grown and nurtured by the people they support. The project began early this summer when Cameron, one of the individuals supported through the Day Opportunities programme, planted pumpkin seeds at home with a little…

As part of Diagrama Foundation’s Supported Living Service in Bromley, residents are supported to develop core skills that help them live more independently as part of their community. For one resident, KO, that support has sparked a new chapter in his lifelong passion for electronics and mechanics. KO is a vibrant, intelligent, and energetic person…

Residents of Cabrini House in Orpington, a care home run by Diagrama Foundation for adults with learning disabilities, are discovering freedom, joy, and confidence each week through the simple but powerful act of sailing. Each week, residents travel by minibus to Chipstead Lake near Sevenoaks, where they take part in sailing sessions that have become…

A Kenyan farmer has made a life-changing move from Africa to the UK to begin a new career at a charity-run care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex. Wilfred Njiri, 43, recently joined Diagrama Foundation as a Development Worker at Duckyls Farm Care Home near East Grinstead. Previously, Wilfred managed crop cultivation…