Expect Limited

10/11/2025

2025 Expect Ltd Christmas Appeal:

Help Spread Warmth & Kindness throughout Expect this Christmas.

This Christmas, we’re reaching out to our community, staff and corporate network with a heartfelt request for donations to support our service users; adults with a learning disability and those who need mental health support in our services.

Christmas can be an extremely difficult time for many of us and our service users are no exception.

We are asking for donations of warm hats, gloves, scarves, and toiletries sets for our most vulnerable services users.

These simple yet meaningful gifts will help provide comfort and warmth to those who need it most. A cosy scarf or a thoughtful Christmas Gift set can truly brighten someone’s day, offering not just physical warmth, but a sense of belonging and kindness.

How You Can Help:

£10 can buy a Hat & Scarf set: Keep someone warm and independent during the winter months.
£15 can buy a Toiletries set: Basic personal care items like soap, shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste make a world of difference.
Your donation, no matter how big or small, will make a real impact on the lives of individuals in our care, helping them feel valued and remembered this Christmas.

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Come together with Expect to help spread joy, kindness, and warmth this festive season.

New item donations can be dropped off at Expect Head Office, 149-151 Stanley Road, Bootle, L20 3DL. Between 9-4pm Monday-Thursday.

Thank you for making a difference this Christmas!

Expect offers individual, focussed support, to help you live your best possible life and offers a range of social care services across the North West of England and North Wales. Our mission is to help to deliver person-centred support to people with a disability, promoting and enabling their independent choice and integration into the community.

Expect has been providing expert and engaging Health and Social Care services since 1989. Expect is a registered charity, number 701331.

Collaborate. Challenge. Care.

06/11/2025

To celebrate Trustees’ Week 2025 - a special time to recognise the incredible people who give their time, energy, and expertise to guide and support charities like Expect, we asked Claire one of our Trustees, what it ment to her to be a part of our charity.

Claire says “As a trustee of Expect, I get a great deal of satisfaction from knowing that I’m helping an amazing team deliver an essential service to the community. It's time well spent indeed.”

Trustees make a huge difference every day, helping organisations stay strong, focused, and true to their mission. Thanks Claire.

06/11/2025

Expect attended the North West In Bloom Awards at Bolton's Toughsheet Stadium on Tuesday. Delighted that Expect's Bowersdale Resource Day Centre (BRC) was recognised as having a 'Level 5- Outstanding' Garden. All the hard work of our service users and Day Centre staff have paid off.

Our Gardening Project only began 3 years ago, we have risen every year from Level 3 to Level 5 ever since. Hopefully with continued funding and support we can further develop our Garden and continue to use the project to give a positive impact to our service users mental health, team work and growing independence.

Well done everyone!

03/11/2025

Now that Halloween is over, our focus turns to Christmas!
Join us at the BRC for our Christmas Party 2025.

FRIDAY 12th DECEMBER 2025, 1pm-4pm.

We look forward to seeing you all to enjoy good food, great company, and plenty of holiday spirit. We’ll have music, games, and even a visit from Santa himself!

Please RSVP and pay by 5th December so we can plan food.

03/11/2025

BRC HALLOWEEN PARTY 2025!

The annual spook-tacular that is the BRC Halloween Party took place last Friday. Plenty of ghouls and goblins attended, with some brilliant fancy dress.

Sarah won best dancer and Cheryl won best dressed for her Chucky outfit.

All enjoyed the buffet, dancing and competitions. Well done to all the BRC team for another fantastic event.

30/10/2025

Conwy Support Worker Vacancies:

Working for Focus Care Wales you will be supporting people who have a learning and/or a physical disability with their day-to-day lives; enabling them to maintain their independence through ACTIVE SUPPORT with each individual. The role may include elements of personal care.

A typical day can include support at home, work or accompanying our service users with general activities such as their weekly shop or any chosen leisure activities including swimming / trips to the cinema, theme parks, community activities, safari parks or zoos.

If you are kind, compassionate, patient and friendly then you will make the perfect support worker - no experience is required and full training is given.

Hours 16 – 37.5 per week
Pay £12.60 p/hr
Work patterns: Full Day shifts/ Weekends / Evenings / Sleep ins
Type of Support: Supported Living & Community Support

Call 01492 573704 for more information or email Anna.Rose@expect.org.uk

30/10/2025

A massive thank you to Utilize Plc for their generous donation of laptops to us at Expect Limited. The computers will be going directly to our service users, to help them become more digitally included. Thank you both Gibbie and Mark for working with Kevin our Business Development Manager and for making the process so straight forward.

The laptops will make a massive difference to our service users lives in being able to be taught how to book appointments online, order their food shop and stay connected with friends and family amongst other things.

Thanks as well to our corporate partner and team at Lift Off IT Services who have configured the laptops, installed Anti-Virus and will support these devices going forwards.

Expect are a member of Shout Connect which has led to the connection with Utilize and their reUtilize program, which repurposes unused laptops for use by those unfortunate enough to not have their own.

To find out more about Utilize and the reUtilize program, please visit; https://lnkd.in/eBd86Nmk

27/10/2025

Our Bowersdale Resource Centre (BRC) is all ready for Halloween!

The staff team are looking forward to welcoming all of our service users and support staff this Friday at 12pm for the spooky Halloween fun!

Dont forget our best Halloween fancy dress and best dancer competitions. Its going to be frighteningly good fun!

21/10/2025

The BRC recently hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning at the Centre, raising money for vital cancer support for the charity.

£350.95 was raised. Well done to everyone involved at the Centre for your continuing fundraising efforts.

13/10/2025

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13/10/2025

Our Bowersdale Resource Centre (BRC) Service Users took part in a great Mindfulness Arts and Craft's session inspiring their creativity on World Mental Health Day.

Here are the results: Thanks to Jo for the video.

13/10/2025

Service users and Staff from our Bowersdale Resource Centre (BRC) have recently visited Blackpool on a residential trip, enjoying the sights and sounds of the seaside.

Although the weather was not the best due to Storm Amy, spirits were not too dampened.

The group enjoyed a visit to the arcades, Ripley’s ‘Believe It Not’ and enjoyed dinner and dancing at the hotel.

Service user comment’s on the trip:

“Really enjoyed the trip away, pity about the weather, but the entertainment was brilliant and the food was fabulous, a five course meal. Be lovely to go back when better weather.”

Marie

“I enjoyed Ripley’s and would like to go again, I was out of my comfort zone as I am not used to big groups but I enjoyed it.

The food was nice in Hotel and I even got up and danced. I would like to go away with the centre again.”

Dianne

“I enjoyed being away from family and being with friends it was a break staying in Hotel, We got wet but I was happy and I slept well, went to Ripleys had a nice time.”

Sally

“On Friday I enjoyed our trip to Blackpool, the fish and chips were amazing as was the whole of the hotel experience and entertainment. Mr Ripley’s was a fantastic experience and I even won some teddies in the arcades

Thank you very much for the trip.”

Michael

“Had nice time enjoyed dancing away, nice meal and Ripley’s believe it or not was good but scary.”

Joanne

“Had a good time enjoyed everything, the Hotel the food even though the weather was bad all had fun.”

Kevin

“I liked the food enjoyed Ripley’s liked the unusual stuff, loved the Hotel and dancing in the disco.”

John

“Really enjoyed the break and the company, Hotel was very nice had a good time.”

Rona

“Loved everything about the trip enjoyed the Hotel , the food was nice. Ripley’s was great, had a really good time.

Thank you all.”

Heather

“Really enjoyed the trip , liked Hotel, the bingo, the entertainment, the food was lovely-really glad I went.”

Suzzanne

“Loved the walk on the prom, and the lights, enjoyed dancing with my mates and the Hotel and food.

I didn’t want to go to bed, had a lovely time.”

Elizabeth