“A very traditional play doesn’t suit everyone.” Josh Hepple is a law graduate with severe cerebral palsy who acts a disability campaigner at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. “But then how do you make someone care …
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KATE JENNINGS IS AN #ALLin AMBASSADOR – AND THIS IS HER STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE
Kate Jennings I turned to blogging at the tender age of 35 after my kidneys went into failure and my job as an event officer was no longer manageable. After a a sufficient amount of …
Continue readingWHO CAN’T PLAY? WHY CAN’T THEY PLAY?
An appeal from ‘Hyndburn Parents and Carers Group’ Play is an important part of any child’s childhood, so when we learned that there was currently a group of young people that were denied the opportunity …
Continue readingBLIND BAKER SURVIVES TO TELL HER STORY
After a near-death car accident last December, blind cook Penny Melville-Brown has emerged after weeks in a coma, months in intensive care and more time in specialist rehabilitation to walk, talk and think clearly enough …
Continue readingSTOPPING DISABILITY HATE CRIME
What is a disability hate crime? Something is a disability hate incident if the victim or anyone else thinks it was carried out because of hostility or prejudice against disabled people. This means that if …
Continue readingCOULD THERESA MAY WALK IN THESE SHOES?
Billy Davis reports on how the Government should be listening to everyone – including those with learning difficulties. He writes, ” just because someone has a learning difficulty it doesn’t mean that they don’t have …
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We recently posted an article titled ‘Fashion And The Disabled Girl‘ which has prompted many of our site visitors to tell us how little representation there is, in so many industries, of people with disabilities. …
Continue readingMENTAL HEALTH AND HOMELESSNESS
Around 70% of people accessing homelessness services have a mental health problem. And homelessness charity St. Mungo’s estimates that 64% of their clients have drug and/or alcohol problems. There is a strong link between homelessness …
Continue readingPROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING’S WORDS BEAMED INTO SPACE
He was perhaps the best known scientist in the world – and now his words are being beamed out of this world and into the nearest black hole following a service of thanksgiving of his …
Continue readingTHE VULNERABILITY OF DISABLED PEOPLE – THE CRIMES THAT SEEP OUT FROM THE SHADOWS
Having a disability places an individual in the world’s largest minority group. This is a sad story which needs to be told. Almost 5,000 disabled adults – across 106 Councils – have been sexually abused …
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