The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Community Intellectual Disability Team will be hosting an exceptional summer barbecue celebration later this month.

According to team manager Chris Cunningham, the barbecue will be the second social event the team has created this year for members of the island’s intellectual disability community and their families.

Mr Cunningham said: “To mark the first anniversary of our team, we held a ‘Fete of Exceptionalities’ event in June at the Warwick Parish Council field. The event was so well received that we decided to create another social event.”

According to Morrisa Rogers, clinical director of intellectual disability at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute, the main purpose of these social events is to provide clients with positive and meaningful interaction with their community and peers.

“It’s our hope that other event organisers will, through our example, understand how to make inclusion possible for those with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities,” she said. “Diversity and inclusion have far-reaching positive effects on all members of our community.”

The barbecue celebration will take place at Clearwater Beach in St David’s on Saturday August 27 from 11am to 2pm.