Strategic consultancy for PossAbilities
YourGo, developed by PossAbilities, is a life-skills subscription toolkit for adults with learning disabilities — something warm, practical and confidence-building for people who are so often left out of typical learning pathways.
I joined the project at the very beginning, when there wasn’t yet a clear model or structure. The team knew they wanted to create something meaningful… but they weren’t sure yet what form it should take. Subscription box? Curriculum? Resource library? A hybrid? My role was to help them figure that out.
My Role
The early months were all about shaping the thing before it existed. I came in as a strategic consultant to help the organisation understand what adults with learning disabilities actually needed, what carers and families were asking for, and what kind of model could realistically support independence without becoming overwhelming or patronising.
Once the concept started to emerge, I developed a content matrix to give the toolkit a learning arc — something that would grow with users, build on itself, and feel coherent from box to box. I researched the skills adults might want or need support with, and mapped these into a soft curriculum that felt achievable, dignified and genuinely supportive.
I was involved throughout the two years of development: reviewing scripts, watching early video drafts, shaping tone of voice, advising on accessibility and user experience, and gently muttering “nope, too infantilising” whenever necessary. The aim was always to create something that respected adults as adults — never a watered-down version of children’s resources.
It was a genuinely fascinating piece of work: part strategy, part pedagogy, part creative problem-solving, part user-experience design.
Why This Project Matters to Me
Because learning doesn’t stop at school.
Because adults with learning disabilities deserve resources that feel human, warm, empowering and designed with them, not just for them.
Because so much of the support world focuses on care, and far too little on confidence, autonomy and joy.
YourGo sits in that rare and important space between the practical and the personal. It helps people build skills — yes — but also belief in themselves, a sense of capability, and moments of creativity and curiosity that aren’t always available in traditional services.
Seeing the project now live, beautifully produced, and recognised with Greater Manchester funding is incredibly meaningful. It’s one thing to help shape an idea on paper; it’s another to watch it step out into the world and start doing exactly what you hoped it would do:
give people more freedom, more possibility, and more ways to say, “I can do this.”
For me, this project was a reminder of why I love this kind of work — the way creativity, strategy, and compassion come together to build something that makes real life a little bigger and a little kinder.
You can explore the project here:
👉 https://yourgo.org.uk/
Katherine Mengardon 