All disabled people are able to live independently as full citizens with equal rights and opportunities We are a Limited Company with Chartiable status.
Company no. 5480761; Charity no. 1120611
12/11/2025
Who says first aid can’t be fun? 🩹💚
Working with the brilliant Louise from Louise at Worsley Training, the Pioneer committee had a fantastic time last week, learning, laughing, and making life-saving skills accessible to everyone 💚
Inspired by Zara’s love of St John Ambulance service, this was a great example of how ambitious young people can work together to make their communities safer and somewhere they can make a difference 💪
funded by the The National Lottery Community Fund 💫
11/11/2025
Life Connectors walk alongside people in communities, in ways that are impactful for them. We are led BY peoples choices and THEY make the decisions on the right support for them.
One person has shared that she has felt able to reconnect in her local community to support both her health and emotional needs - the impact for her is that she feels loved.
Want to know more about the Life Connectors at Wiltshire CIL? - Please contact us.
10/11/2025
Let's chat about what we all dread........getting old!!
Come and join the national conversation about what care and support could look like for you as you get older. Facilitated by Angela Catley, When I Get Old Home - When I get old, we will be having a chat over lunch as to what care looks like now and how we want to change it so that we all get to live ambitious and fulfilled lives as we get older.
Choice & Control, Community and Co-production are the ingredients to the (not so secret) recipe when working with Wiltshire CIL.
We create joyful spaces where we invite in the people who wear the lanyards to have a think with us as to how we make sure everyone gets to live their best life! To some this might look 'a bit of a riot' to us it looks like radical change and we love it!
06/11/2025
Pioneers share their journies and impact....💪
Meet Dan J - a Pioneer with a mission - changing how he feels , supporting others and making stuff happen!
Dan has shared part of his journey with our Life Connectors and his ambitions for the future....He's even sneaked a hint at a part2!!! in 2026!!!
Look out for our Dan catch ups and how steps in his mental health journey has shaped his outlook and the impact that this has had in his life.
Want to be part of shaping inclusive, creative spaces where everyone can take
part?
Make It Together is a relaxed online creative hangout for Deaf and Disabled people.
It’s a chance to talk about the barriers you experience in accessing creative activities, share your ideas, and be part of shaping more inclusive spaces for creativity.
This session will be hosted by Emma Major, an artist, poet, and author whose digital paintings and poetry have been exhibited across the UK and internationally. Her work explores disability, mental health, faith, climate change, and everyday life. She’ll bring her own experience of creativity to the conversation. Come along to connect, share ideas, and enjoy creativity in a welcoming space.
We'll just leave this here...... one of our pioneers sent this to us.
03/11/2025
Bold, ambitious, and unstoppable! 💪
Just a few words to describe the Fairfield College students part of our reference group for the Ambitions Collective. Their first mission, to create this vision for the Ambitions Collective:
To build a future where every young adult in Wiltshire is respected, has confidence and the support to reach their dreams… 💫
These fantastic words will shape everything Wiltshire CIL will do for this campaign, walking alongside disabled to reach their goals, celebrate their achievements, and share their stories 🎯
A huge thank you to the Reference Group at Fairfield College for all your hard work so far, we can’t wait to keep working with you and co-producing this project!
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund 💫
27/10/2025
Introducing… the Pioneer Tapestry💚!
In January 2024, we had a mission… to find out what’s most important to young people across Wiltshire!
To do this, we asked Young Pioneers to get creative, drawing, painting writing what they care about on fabric squares 🎨🖌
We went to schools and colleges, community groups and events, and in Young Pioneers sessions to make (drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁) the Pioneer Tapestry!
Made of 163 individual fabric squares, the Pioneer Tapestry is made by young people, for young people in Wiltshire. It’s shows that they want what we all want, a .
A huge thank you to everyone who and a special thank you to Wendy Biggs who sewed every single fabric square together!
Want to see our Tapestry in real life? Head over to Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, where it will be displayed from Monday 27th October to Monday 10th November📍
Wiltshire Museum, 41 Long Street, Devizes, SN10 1NS.
The Pioneers have been showing how training should be done. Nathan and Christopher have written and have been delivering Autism training to social care staff alongside .
They brought the training to life by talking about their own experience of Autism, the highs, the lows and everything in between, as well as putting staff to the test in some tough scenarios.
The feedback has been great, with a number of people saying that the training should be compulsory for all social care staff.
This is what true co-production looks like.
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Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living is a user led organisation which means we are managed and led by local disabled people. Our core work is to support disabled people across Wiltshire to actively experience choice, control and independence.
We are a registered charity (1120611) and a company ltd by guarantee (5480761)
We are commissioned by Wiltshire Council to provide support to people in receipt of a personal budget (PB) through a direct payment. Following a comprehensive assessment for a social care package people can choose to receive a ‘cash’ payment to manage their own care. People arrange their care through an agency of their choice or by directly employing their own Personal Assistant (PA). We support with all areas to ensure people can manage their direct payment effectively including offering a payroll and banking service so that people are supported with all aspects of employment law. We host a PA register and support people with the recruitment and management of their PA’s. We also provide a support planning service and community development opportunities alongside our #Makesomeonewelcome campaign.
In June 2018 we were awarded a contract with Wiltshire Council and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group to provide them with user expertise. We have a register of User Engagement which people can sign up to and become involved in sharing their views on using adult social care and health services.
