About Us

Making a real difference through training and research

We are an independent social enterprise which makes a difference to people’s lives through delivering training, research, easy read and creating resources.


Our mission is to enable people with a learning disability to have full and valued roles in their community. We do this through our co-produced and co-delivered services.

We are a social enterprise and Community Interest Company

All our work is co-produced with people with a learning disability

Building Bridges has been making a real difference since 2008

  • Inclusive research with people with a learning disability to understand the issues and barriers that are experienced by people with a learning disability.


  • Training the staff who work alongside people with a learning disability such as giving good support to parents with a learning disability.


  • Training the staff from mainstream organisations so they can better understand and support people with a learning disability who use their services.
  • Delivering a wide variety of short courses for people with a learning disability on varied topics such as managing money and Health and Wellbeing.


  • By co-producing resources which include good practice guidelines for staff and easy read resources for people with a learning disability such as a keep safe checklist.


  • We are commissioned to produce reports and documents in an easy read format.
Our Services

What else we do

As well as training, we can also carry out research projects, consultancy, group facilitation and user-led monitoring and evaluations.


We are based in Sandwell in the West Midlands. We can travel to venues which take one hour travel time.


Please contact us for an individual quote, which depends on the number of people we train, plus our travel costs.

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Quick Link: Good Practice Resources


Building Bridges Training has developed a range of good practice information and other resources.


Visit our Resources page for details.

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