Would you please consider signing our PETITION calling for a £25m annual fund to provide extra ‘respite breaks’ for unpaid carers? THE PETITION “Create a £25million annual fund to pay for respite breaks …
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Disability Poverty Campaign Calls On PM To Act Urgently On Prepayments Meters
Disabled people’s organisations and allies have written to the prime minister to call for an immediate ban on energy companies forcibly installing pre-payment meters in the homes of disabled customers who have fallen into debt. …
Continue readingWHAT NOT TO SAY TO A GRIEVING YOUNG PERSON
When a young person you know has experienced the death of someone close to them, it can be difficult to know what to say. It’s natural to want to comfort them, but sometimes common condolences …
Continue readingPENNY’S NEW YEAR RESOLUTION – QUICK EASY FOOD
The Incredible ‘blind’ cook, Penny Melville-Brown, welcomes in the New Year with this recipe for Tomato Soup. Tomato and orange soup Ingredients: 1 large (800g) tin tomatoes. 1 orange, zest and juice. 1 medium potato, …
Continue readingA PETITION TO FUND EXTRA RESPITE CARE FOR UNPAID CARERS
Would you please consider signing our PETITION calling for a £25m annual fund to provide extra ‘respite breaks’ for unpaid carers? FACT: The UK’s unpaid carers save our treasury £135bn each and every year. We are now …
Continue readingGRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS FUND
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) has launched a £1 million pilot fund to support grassroots social movements whose work is about systemic change in society. The Grassroots Movements Fund has around £1 million which …
Continue readingWOULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING OUR PETITION?
THE LIFE OF UNPAID CARERS – IS IT FAIR? .. IS IT JUST? .. OR IS IT SIMPLY UNREASONABLE? Would you please consider signing our PETITION calling for a £25m annual fund to provide extra …
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Festive Greetings to all our supporters and followers
Continue readingA CHRISTMAS PODCAST FROM THE BLIND COOK
I’m rather cheating on Christmas greetings. No cards but offering this link to a Christmas Special podcast I was asked to do by broadcaster Tom Walker. In the past, he has featured the blind singer …
Continue readingWOULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING OUR PETITION?
Our Petition is for the Government to provide £25 million annual ‘respite fund’ for unpaid carers. There are an estimated 13 million unpaid carers in the UK and it is calculated that they save the treasury over £135bn every …
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