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FROM ‘FITZROY’ Today we are celebrating the members, volunteers and staff who all make up our Love4Life friendship and dating network for people with learning disabilities and autism. Love4Life members tell us they are happier, less …

    We’re delighted to announce that Beep Beep! Day is back and will be taking place on Wednesday 26 April 2023. Beep Beep! Day is a fantastic opportunity to engage with younger children aged 2-7 all …

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 …

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.  …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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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