Jigsaw Creative Care is a family-run provider supporting children and adults with autism and complex needs across Berkshire, delivering bespoke, person-centred care and housing options to empower fulfilling, purposeful lives.
Transition exhibitors
Explore this year's National Star transition exhibitors, where they showcase their offering to our day and residential students.
Active Impact and You’re Welcome Gloucestershire
Active Impact creates inclusive opportunities for all young people to do together. Working with partner organisations across Gloucestershire, activities and events take place throughout the year for young people up to the age of 25.
You’re Welcome Gloucestershire is a free inclusive activity finder for all ages with clear accessibility information. Helping you to find things to do that work for you, easily search for one off events or regular activities by location, your area of interest or by access or specific requirements.
Cavalry Healthcare
Cavalry Healthcare, a transition exhibitor, delivers personalised complex care, supported living, and stabilisation services nationwide, empowering people with diverse needs to live independently, while supporting NHS and local authorities with values-led, person-centred care.
Choice Care Group
Choice Care is a specialist provider for autistic people and those with learning disabilities, mental health conditions and complex needs. They offer expertise across a range of specialisms, including support for people with behaviours that challenge. They are at the forefront of national best practice, with an outstanding reputation and consistently high CQC ratings.
DC&M Mobility
DC&M are a family run business, offering both home and in-store assessments within Gloucestershire. Specialising in all mobility equipment, vehicle adaptations, servicing and repairs, as well as seating and postural advice.
Their showroom hosts both powered and manual wheelchairs, recliners, scooters and small aids to daily living. They are also a recognised Motability dealer for vehicle adaptations.
Dimensions
Dimensions is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit organisations supporting autistic people and those with learning disabilities, behaviours of distress and complex health needs. Driven by their values, they say they place the people they support and their families at the heart of everything they do.
Employment and Skills Hub / Forwards
www.forwardsgloucestershire.co.uk
Gloucestershire’s first stop for disability employment. Whether you are looking for paid work and need help with job searching, or you’re an employer with job opportunities concerned about disability discrimination, we see the potential in disability, not the problem.
Expeditions Living
The team at Expeditions Living is experienced and trained to work with people of all ages with learning difficulties, mental health needs, dual diagnosis and other complex needs.
Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation
gloucestershirecricketfoundation.org
Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation provide opportunities for young people with additional needs to play regular competitive cricket at weekly sessions and festivals through our Super1s community hubs. Enabling all to have fun, make new friends and learn new skills. All sessions are free and inclusive. Their hubs are based in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud and Frenchay, and a girls’ only in Cheltenham. They also provide opportunities for young people to play table cricket, a fully adapted form of cricket, within colleges, and schools.
Guideposts Trust
Guideposts Trust are a UK-based charity working with adults in local communities to help them access the support, opportunities and skills they need to overcome social inequalities, improve their wellbeing and change their lives. They offer a Stroud Hub for adults with learning disabilities, along with Connect groups and one-to-one services.
GPW Tax and Law
GPW Tax and Law Estate Planning Seminars highlight how to make the best possible financial decisions for your loved ones and get total peace of mind.
Heart of England Mencap
Heart of England Mencap is a charity that empowers people with a learning disability to optimise their potential and live fulfilling and independent lives. They provide a wide range of support, enabling individuals to live independently, whether that is through residential, supported living, respite, or community day care services. These are primarily delivered across Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
Home From Home Care
Created by a family to make the difference; Home From Home Care provides specialist residential care services to autistic adults (18+) and those with learning disabilities and complex health / mental health needs. They design bespoke environments and support around each person to enable them to lead an ordinary adult life. Their ground-breaking unique model of care and transparent data systems enables them to focus on an individual’s quality of life and create ‘the world on my own terms’ to meet personal aspirations, delivering meaningful outcomes and fulfilled days.
Inclusion Gloucestershire
www.inclusiongloucestershire.co.uk
Inclusion Gloucestershire aim to achieve an inclusive society that values, respects and includes disabled people every day in every way. They can help support you to raise and address disability-related issues that you may be facing and develop workplace skills and experience.
Jamats
Jamats provides a fun, relaxed and friendly environment for adults aged 16+ with special needs and/or learning difficulties. Their friendly and unique atmosphere allows the opportunity for all to take part in a variety of life skills, learning, creative and social activities. They also provide places for post 16 and college students throughout the year in our Academy. Jamats invite students to come and join in with their activities during their half term holidays and unallocated days as well as offering full time Academy placements. The transition from school/college to the adult world can be an incredibly daunting one and so the opportunity to get involved in and familiarise with what the future may hold is something they believe to be highly beneficial to the user and their families.
Jigsaw Creative Care
www.jigsawcreativecarelimited.co.uk
Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire are a UK-based leading disability charity, supporting over 30,000 disabled people each year. They help individuals live, learn, and work as independently as they choose, whatever their ability, and champion an inclusive society.
Liaise
Liaise is a care & support provider specialising in support for adults with learning disabilities, autism, and other complex needs. They support people with varying combinations of needs including PMLD (Profound & Multiple Learning Disabilities), sensory impairments, epilepsy, and mental health issues.
Liaise have homes in following regions: London, Hampshire, West Sussex, East Anglia, and Cambridgeshire.
L&H AAC and AT Solutions
Laith, founder of L&H AAC and AT solutions, leverages his personal experience with Cerebral Palsy and dysarthria to provide expert AAC and assistive technology consultancy. Based in the South West England, but serving clients nationally, Laith understands the challenges faced by AAC users. His services include assessments, reports, equipment trials, ongoing client support, and training for support teams, educators and caregivers. He also provides advice on sourcing equipment or software. Laith’s firsthand knowledge ensures tailored solutions that maximise communication potential for clients of all ages.
Mary Rush Care
Mary Rush provides support to people with various abilities and disabilities in both supported living and residential placements. They have purpose-built units for people with physical disabilities in Gloucester, as well few other units for people with learning disabilities and other conditions.
Milestone Trust
Milestones Trust supports people with learning disabilities and mental health needs in and around the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire areas. Milestones Trust has been supporting people since 1986 and they’re proud that all of their registered services have been rated as either Good or Outstanding by the CQC.
National Care Group
National Care Group is one of the UK’s leading adult social care providers. They support adults with learning disabilities, mental health diagnoses, acquired brain injuries, and autistic people with services across England and Wales.
National Star Community Learning
www.nationalstar.org/community-learning
Our community learning programme is the perfect way for you to learn something new, get active and meet new friends. If you’re aged 18 or over and have a disability, there may be a part-time learning opportunity at National Star that’s just right for you. We guarantee a warm welcome, lots of encouragement and the chance to develop some exciting new skills!
ND Hub Glos
ND Hub Glos is a neurodivergent-led organisation serving Gloucestershire, dedicated to inclusion by centring the voices of neurodivergent people. They provide peer support groups led by neurodivergent facilitators, short break activities for disabled children and their families in Tewkesbury and the North Cotswolds, and training and workshops for workplaces, schools, and community settings.
Orchard Trust
At Orchard Trust people come first. We support people with learning and physical disabilities to live happy and fulfilling lives at our residential and supported living homes across the Forest of Dean. Orchard Trust also have a Day Service, Therapy Suite and Therapeutic Smallholding at their Lydbrook site offering community involvement.
P.A.C.E Gloucester
P.A.C.E’s aim is to make a difference to the lives of adults with learning disabilities and their families/carers within a safe environment, through arranging well thought out, fun, person-centred activities.
POhWER
POhWER provides statutory advocacy services for adults within Gloucestershire to support them to make their views and wishes heard where decisions are being made in their lives and to ensure that they are involved as much as possible or speaking on their behalf if needed.
Precious Homes
Precious Homes provides specialist Supported Living & Residential services for adults with autism and learning disabilities across London, Milton Keynes, and the Midlands & Gloucestershire.
Prosperity Care and Wellbeing
Prosperity Care and Wellbeing are a supported living and domiciliary care provider based in Gloucestershire. They support people from age 18 – 100+ who have a diverse range of needs. They focus on a person over a diagnosis and are dedicated to providing personalised care, recognising that everyone is wonderfully unique. Their supported living services are friendly, stimulating, caring, and homely. Prosperity Care and Wellbeing offer many different services, providing opportunities for people to learn new skills, socialise, thrive, and have fun.
Quality Assured Care Services
www.qualityassuredcareservices.co.uk
Quality Assured Care Services is registered by the Care Quality Commission for complex care (Treatment, Disorders, Diseases or Injuries) in the communities around Gloucestershire, Hereford and Worcestershire.
Safehands Recruitment
www.safehandsrecruitment.co.uk
Safehands Recruitment provide temporary and permanent staff to hospitals, care homes and mental health facilities.
Scrubditch Care Farm
Scrubditch Care Farm provides therapeutic farm based activities for vulnerable people. Adults with learning disabilities attend the Care Farm on a weekly basis to learn to care for the animals, grow fruit and vegetables, cook with fresh ingredients, explore the woodlands and more! Scrubditch Care Farm focuses on increasing confidence, building independence and promoting good health and wellbeing.
Seren Healthcare Solutions
www.serenhealthcaresolutions.co.uk
Seren Healthcare Solutions provides high-quality domiciliary and supported living care for people with complex needs and severe disabilities. We focus on person-centred support that promotes independence, dignity, and well-being, enabling each individual to live safely and comfortably in their own home.
Severnside Skills – Camphill Village Trust
www.camphillvillagetrust.org.uk/skills
Severnside Skills – Camphill Village Trust provide vocational work experience based training within Taurus Crafts, a visitor centre in Lydney. Their courses are Entry Level 3 / Level 1 and certified by AQA. Courses include catering, retail, hospitality, upcycling, site operations and other short courses based around our site activities.
TwoCan Theatre
TwoCan Inclusive Theatre Company is Gloucestershire’s leading disabled-led inclusive theatre organisation, established in 2014 to ensure that deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people can access, enjoy, and thrive through the performing arts. The company provides platforms for disabled artists to develop creative and professional skills, explore self-expression, and build confidence, working to make the arts truly inclusive.
Voyage Care
Voyage Care is the sector leading provider of specialist support for children and adults with autism, brain injuries, learning disabilities and complex needs. With over 35 years of experience, we enable people to lead happy and fulfilling lives in their own home, in the community, or in one of our residential care homes.
Walsingham Support
Walsingham Support is a charity which has supported autistic people and people with learning disabilities, acquired brain injuries, and complex needs for over 30 years. They provide residential care, supported living, transition support and positive behaviour support.
Wildgoose
www.wildgooseruraltraining.org
Wildgoose offer people from all backgrounds and abilities the opportunity to learn about and experience the beauty, honesty and excitement of rural life in a relaxed, happy nurturing atmosphere. Currently, the majority of their clients are disabled adults who work in small groups to help run our farm, nature reserve and tea room. Over the years, their centre has transformed from old gravel settlement beds into a vibrant hub, featuring raised beds, orchards, ponds, polytunnels, and livestock accommodations.
Last reviewed on 24/10/2025