Programme for Get SeT GO3! : 28 Feb 2018

10.00 Arrival and registration

Please register at Civic Suite reception top of the stairs and collect your lunch ticket

Collect your complimentary goodie bag, with pen, programme, plan of the Civic Suite and your feedback form

Please collect and wear your “no picture please” badge if you don’t want to be photographed

Please complete and return your feedback form before you leave, so you can have a go at the Lucky Dip and we can find out what you thought about the event.

10.15 onwardsVisit exhibition stands.

10.30 Welcome. Exhibition opened by Marsha de Cordova MP for Battersea.

12.00 noon Health Bites performance from the Baked Bean Theatre Company on stage at front of Main Hall

12.30 pm Lunch

Please collect your picnic lunch bag from Share at the front of the Banqueting Hall.

2.30pm Event closes

To find out more please read the full programme, attached or email

Full Programme

Get set GO 3 ! Next steps into Adulthood for young people, aged 14-25 with special needs and disabilities (SEND). This free event jointly organised by Wandsworth Council and South Thames College, with funding from Wandsworth Ambitions Careers Cluster,is for young people, 14-25 with SEND, their parents/carers and other service providers, and professionals.

With more stands, workshops and presentations than last year’s excellent event, the remit has been widened in response to feedback to include Health, Housing and Social Activities.This eventdemonstrates the various routes young people can take into education, employment, training, independent travel,independent living, health support, money and benefits, social life and more.

Schools will be bringinggroups of students aged from 14 to 19. Young people 14 to 25 years old, at out of borough schools or colleges, parents, carers, professionals, employers, teachers, providersand trainersare all welcome to join us for this exciting event.

This event follows on from2016 and 2017's hugely successful Get Set GO! events.We have a range of exhibitors covering a wide offer of provision and services. These includeeducation, traineeships, housing options, health information, benefits and social life.You can attend all or just part of the morning.

There are inspiring speakers, including one of our local MPs, Marsha de Cordova, a dramatic performance by the Baked Bean Theatre Company. and demonstrations of the latest technology to support young people in and into work.Lunch, which is included, is catered by Share. Stewards are from Aurora College.

There will also be stands where you can talk to providers, who will include (C means they have confirmed they will attend):

  • 0 to 25 Disability Team C
  • A2i DyslexiaC
  • Apprenticeships and Skills Development Officer (WBC)C
  • Baked Bean CompanyC
  • British Association for Supported Employment (BASE)
  • Beyond Autism
  • Care TradeC
  • Carney's CommunityC
  • Carshalton College
  • Certitude
  • Deaf FirstC
  • Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)
  • Disabled Children's Register (DCR), WAND and WAND+ Cardsand Parent ChampionsC
  • Enable Leisure and CultureC
  • Free2b-alliance C
  • GenerateC
  • Green Academies Project C
  • HAIL
  • HealthwatchC
  • Kingston College
  • Lambeth College
  • Let Me Play Limited
  • Orchard Hill CollegeC
  • Positive Parent Action C
  • Prince's TrustC
  • Project SearchC
  • Resurgo/Spear
  • Roots and ShootsC
  • Seetec
  • Share CommunityC
  • South Thames CollegeC
  • Supported Employment Service Richmond and Wandsworth C
  • Transport for London (TfL)
  • Unique Youth C
  • VoiceAbility (Wandsworth Advocates)
  • Wandsworth Family Information Service (FIS)C
  • Wandsworth Information Advice and Support Service (WIASS)C
  • Wandsworth Learning Disability Healthcare Team C
  • Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board C
  • Wandsworth's WikisC
  • Wandsworth Work MatchC
  • WorkRightC
  • Workshop 305C

Find out about:

  • your choices after school or college
  • alternatives to education
  • Local training and support activities and forthcoming events
  • How to find a job or training place
  • Where to live
  • how to travel
  • local support groups and other services
  • Answers to any questions you or your parents/carers may have about your future