Transition exhibitors
Explore this year's National Star transition exhibitors, where they showcase their offering to our day and residential students.
Accomplish
Accomplish is a specialist provider of support for over 1,000 people with mental health needs, autism, learning disabilities and acquired brain injuries. For over 30 years, our priority has been to enable people to live fun and fulfilled lives, across our residential and supported living services throughout England and Wales.
Achieve Together
With over 25 years of experience, Achieve together is an award-winning leading provider of specialist support and accomodation for autistic people, adults learning disabilities, epilepsy, profound and multiple learning disabilities, deafness and associated complex needs.
Active Gloucestershire
Active Gloucestershire want to inspire, connect and enable people in Gloucestershire to get active in a way that works for them, and they want to support those who can help others move more, like activity providers, sports clubs and key partners in the county.
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.
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.
Consensus Support Services
Consensus support autistic people and those with learning disabilities and complex needs. With almost 100 services across the country – both supported living and residential – they cover Scotland, Wales, the South Coast, West and South London, the Home Counties, East Anglia, and the Midlands. Consensus also has a number of services specialising in supporting those with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Cream Care
Located in the South West of England, Cream Care provides bespoke residential and supported living provision for those with a range of complex needs, primarily with a physical disability and / or learning difficulties.
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.
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.
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 Community Rail Partnership
Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership provide accessibility maps/guides and advice. Expert providers of accessibility research services for rail operators including the needs of people with disabilities.
Gloucestershire Parent Carer Forum
www.glosparentcareforum.org.uk
Gloucestershire Parent Carer Forum is a voice for those with lived experience of being a Parent Carer (This means parents and/or carers of children with any disability, SEN, condition, impairment or additional need). They can create a bridge to the providers of statutory services to help build better services for all families of disabled children and young adults in Gloucestershire. They offer social meet ups, free training and the opportunity to give your views and ideas to help improve local services for disabled children and their families.
Goals Beyond Grass
Goals Beyond Grass provide inclusive opportunities. They provide Powerchair Football, Inclusive Cycling, and PAN Football. They aim to deliver inclusive sessions across Gloucestershire helping disabled children and adults to reduce isolation and meet new people within their community by trying new sports and games.
Goals Beyond Grass deliver PAN Football in both Gloucester and the Forest of Dean, Powerchair Football in Gloucester and Bristol and cycling county wide. They also deliver social opportunities in Gloucester.
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.
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.
Kingfishers – Action for children
https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk
Kingsfishers are working to improve life for children and young people in the UK. They do this by providing practical and emotional care and support. Kingfishers make sure their voices are heard and they campaign to bring lasting improvements to their lives.
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.
Lifeways
Lifeways is the UK’s largest team of support professionals providing support for adults in the community. They support autistic adults and those with diverse and complex needs, including those with learning / physical disabilities, acquired brain injuries, and mental health conditions. Lifeways delivers support across three divisions: supported living, residential and mental health services.
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 for autistic people and those with learning disabilities, acquired brain injury, mental health, and other complex needs. They empower people to reach their full potential and live as independently as possible within their community through careful planning processes focused on each individual’s needs.
Olive Grange Healthcare
https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-18225723074
Olive Grange Healthcare are a GP led service carrying out supported accommodation /supported living services as well as respite care. They are based in the Midlands.
Orbis Care
Orbis Care is a dedicated provider of high-quality home care services, established in 2021 in South Warwickshire. Orbis Care offers personalised support tailored to the unique needs of each individual, ensuring they can enjoy the comfort and familiarity of their own homes while receiving the care they need.
Orchard Trust
At Orchard Trust people come first. They support people with learning and physical disabilities to live happy and fulfilling lives at their residential and supported living homes across the Forest of Dean. They also have a day centre, therapy suite and therapeutic smallholding at Lydbrook offering community involvement opportunities.
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.
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.
Safehands Recruitment
www.safehandsrecruitment.co.uk
Safehands Recruitment provide temporary and permanent staff to hospitals, care homes and mental health facilities.
Salutem
www.salutemcareandeducation.co.uk
Salutem provide a range of care and support in schools, colleges, day centres, supported living locations and residential homes for children and adults.
SeeAbility
SeeAbility is one of the oldest UK disability charities, with over 225 years of experience supporting autistic people and people with learning disabilities, many of whom also have vision impairment.
Scrubditch Care Farm
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.
The Music Works
The Music Works mission is to transform young lives through music. They’re specialists in working with young people in challenging circumstances to help them reach their full potential in music, in learning, and in life. They run one-to-one and group sessions at their inclusive music Hub in Gloucester and have staff experienced in working with people with disabilities.
Voyage Care
Voyage Care is a sector leading provider, with 35 years experience of specialist care and support. They support autistic people and people with learning disabilities, acquired brain injuries and other complex needs across the UK.
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.
Last reviewed on 14/02/2025
