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29/08/2026

Good Luck Rebecca! 🎉

A special message from Ryan, who earlier this year ran the full Belfast Marathon to raise vital funds for incredABLE, for Rebecca as she takes on the Belfast Half-Marathon next month! 🙌

Ryan, who describes himself as a “high-functioning autistic” person, ran 26.1 miles back in May raising over £2.5K. 👏

Rebecca has been getting her miles in over the last few months and if you’re able to make a donation to help her reach her modest target, she’d be really grateful! 🥰

All donations received will go directly to incredABLE to help us continue to provide our vital services for individuals with a learning/ intellectual disability and/or autism across the Southern Health and Social Trust area.

⭐To contribute, please go to: https://incredable.enthuse.com/pf/rebecca-alhadeff-6f9bb

Thank you! 💜

28/08/2026

A huge THANK YOU to the six amazing local businesses who generously donated raffle prizes for tonight's incredABLE Charity Raffle! 💜

Special thanks to:
✨ Woods Centra Dobbin Road
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✨ Moutray's Costcutter, Lurgan and Dollingstown
✨ High Street Harvest

We would also like to give a very special thank you to Vivian Abernathy of Shankill Parish Jethro and Diane Boyd at incredABLE for their incredible generosity and support.

Your kindness helps make events like this possible, and we are so grateful for your continued support of incredABLE and our local community.

Tonight's incredABLE quiz is being held at the Stute Lurgan at 8pm! Tickets £5per person, see you there!!

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28/08/2026

🌻Sunflowers In The Sun 🌻

What a beautiful way to spend an August day! 🌞

A few weeks ago, one of our B.I.G groups headed off to the Ballymoyer Sunflower Fields. Walking through the sunflowers was such an uplifting experience.

While they were there, the group enjoyed a picnic and also picked some flowers to bring home. What a lovely surprise to give a loved one! 💐

27/08/2026

🕊Deepest Condolences 🕊

We extend our deepest sympathy to the Shannon family on the death of Mary, former Board of Trustees member with incredABLE.

Mary served on our Board from 2016 until 2020. Having previously worked with the Southern Trust's Children's Services, when she retired Mary joined our Board bringing with her a wealth of knowledge.

We are deeply appreciative of the valued contribution Mary made, during her time with us, to incredABLE's mission of creating meaningful opportunities for people with a learning disability and/or autism.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this very sad time.

We regret to inform you of the recent death of Mary Shannon

27/08/2026

📢We Are Hiring! Time is running out to apply...

Relief Project Worker with Driving Duties 🚐
🗓Closing date: Monday, 31st August @ 4:00pm

⏰Casual hours as required but there may be the opportunity for a permanent position.

The successful candidate will be working throughout the Southern Trust Area. incredABLE's Head Office is located at 162 Portadown Rd, Armagh BT61 9LJ.

The Project Worker will be responsible to the relevant Services Manager depending on the project they are working on. The worker will assist in the creation of programme plans that respond to the individual needs of the children, young people/adults with a learning/intellectual disability and/or autism attending the service.

An integral part of this post will be driving the incredABLE minibus and you will be required to hold a DI category Driving Licence and undertake specific training provided by incredABLE.

In order to comply with incredABLE insurance policy requirements, successful applicants must be aged 21 years or above.

The successful candidate must be available to undertake driving in the evenings and across weekends.

If you’d like to apply for this position, please go to: https://www.communityni.org/job/relief-project-worker-driving-duties-casual-hours-required-may-be-opportunity-permanent

26/08/2026

💜Flying The Flag For incredABLE at Ablefest 💜

Apologies! We promised more fab pics from our time at the Ablefest inclusive music and arts festival, but things got a bit busy! We had lots of incredABLE news to share about our summer activities, job vacancies, fundraising events and updates about our new charity shop Just incredable!

Anyway, we’ve finally found a little space for some more photos! 📷

Ablefest is an amazing inclusive event for people with additional needs, their family and friends. (More info: https://ableevents.ie/ablefest )

Last month, for the first time, we took a group of our participants to see for ourselves and had an amazing time enjoying the music and activities in a safe space! 🎼

And as you can see in the pics, we got our glitter on and got Summer festival ready!🎉

We still have lots more content to share with you all and hopefully will get it out next month. Watch this space! 📹

26/08/2026

🧠 Reminder! Fundraising Quiz Night - this Friday night!🧠

The good people from the Stute Lurgan are donating the proceeds of their next fundraising quiz to incredABLE! We are truly grateful! 💜

Why not get a team together, test your general knowledge and help raise vital funds?

🗓Friday, 28th August 2026
📍Mechanics Institute, Lurgan
👥Teams of up to 6
💷£5 per person on the door

There’ll also be a raffle on the night with fantastic prizes so bring a bit of extra change and try your luck! 🤞🏽

All proceeds go towards making a difference to individuals with a learning/intellectual disability and/or autism, helping them to live an incredABLE life, no matter the boundaries.

👉🏽If you have an event coming up and are considering which charity to support, we’d love to chat with you! Please contact our Fundraising and Engagement Officer Annabelle Pentland by emailing: [email protected] or phoning 028 3887 2111.

25/08/2026

Our Lurgan Heroes Plus group headed to Belfast last month to visit the Titanic Museum. It’s a real favourite with some of our participants who find maritime history fascinating! 🌊

Heroes PLUS helps young people make new friends, socialise, participate in excursions, learn new skills and more. The initiative is a six-month project that supports young people aged from 14-24 years, who are facing barriers to education, and/or have a learning disability/difficulty and/or autism.

Heroes+ is a project supported by Peace Plus, a programme managed by Special EU Programmes Body - SEUPB.

24/08/2026

🎉An Incredible Community Effort Raising £800 for incredABLE! 🎉

We are absolutely delighted to receive a generous donation of £800 from Bessbrook NISC, the largest fundraising total the club has ever achieved through their annual fundraising event.

The group shared that: "Our Annual Games Night in June was not only a successful fundraiser but also a meaningful evening of remembrance."

Each year, Bessbrook NISC selects a local charity to benefit from fundraising linked to the Stephen Jennett Memorial Shield, honouring Stephen's memory while supporting causes that make a difference within the local community.

This year's Family Games Night, brought together members, families, friends and the wider community for a fantastic evening of fun, connection and generosity. We couldn't be more honoured that incredABLE touched the hearts of so many and was chosen as this year's beneficiary.

David was delighted to be joined by Norah (Stephen's sister), Harry and this year's games night champion, Mervyn, along with our wonderful incredABLE Day Opportunities' Monday group, to receive the donation and celebrate this incredible achievement. 👏🏻

A heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in organising, supporting and taking part in the event. Your kindness and generosity will help us continue creating opportunities, promoting inclusion and supporting people with learning disabilities and /or autism across the Southern Trust. 💜

If you would like to make a donation to incredABLE, please use the link attached: https://www.incredable.org.uk/give/

🤝Are you part of a local community group or larger organisation that would like to get staff involved in fundraising and supporting incredABLE? We'd love to hear from you.

💻 : Contact Annabelle Pentland at [email protected] and she will be with you every step of the way.

23/08/2026

😎Benidorm, you were brilliant! 😎

Four fab nights in the sun were had by our holidaymakers who headed off to Spain last week. 🌞

They enjoyed the beach and the hotel pool, the Magic Robin Hood show (see yesterday’s pics), checking out everything Benidorm had to offer... and of course, good food in good company. 😋

Booked with TUI, they stayed at the four star Hotel Rio Park which was just 10 minutes walk to Levante Beach and one kilometre to the resort centre. ⛱

It’s always a sign of a good time away when the next holiday is already being planned! 🥰