TWO members of a Keighley-based group are among 11 people with learning disabilities who are graduating from a course designed to develop leadership skills.

Adrian Swallow and Lindsey Hurt, from People First Keighley and Craven, will attend a graduation ceremony in Leeds on Tuesday.

The latest Tomorrow's Leaders course, run by not-for-profit organisation Inclusion North, began in January.

It attracted participants from across Yorkshire and the Humber.

Sessions included speakers such as Gary Bourlet, who set-up People First England and more recently Learning Disability England.

There was also a residential element, helping the participants to develop support and co-operation skills.

And at the culmination of the course, each person presented a project on a chosen subject.

Stewart Chappell, co-chairman of Inclusion North and a Tomorrow's Leaders graduate-turned-facilitator, said: "Tomorrow's Leaders helped me to get my current job.

"Not long after graduation I decided I needed a bigger challenge, so I looked for something new.

"As a facilitator of Tomorrow's Leaders, you see a big change in the people on the course.

"They get more confidence. In the past they have believed they can't do things, but the course changes them. People see previous graduates now leading the course and start to think 'I could do that'."