The LUNA Project

The LUNA (Learning to Understand Needs and Abilities) Project is a charity aiming to raise awareness of young people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. At the heart of this is the idea that supportive friendships can make all the difference in managing a disability or long-term health condition, but that starting those conversations can be very difficult. As such, a lot of our work centres around making these conversations possible and empowering young people to talk to their peers about their health conditions. We’ve also broadened our work significantly to include wider resources and workshops. Our work is constantly evolving and changing, guided by what we, as young people with lived experience, and other young people with lived experience believe is needed. Currently we’re producing lots of resources - from the bitesized ones you see on our Instagram, through to full booklets - running an Ambassadors scheme and other workshops, running a blog, and continually trying to raise awareness!