Worsley-based charitable service, PromoCon, has changed its name to Bladder and Bowel UK as part of a major brand overhaul and investment in its corporate identity. The service, established over 20 years ago, is the only UK national helpline service providing information and support for adults and children with bladder and bowel dysfunction, their carers and the professionals who support them. The name ... Read More »
It was a special day for a remarkable couple who became husband and wife and embarked on a journey together to rebuild lives after injury. Alison and Trevor Hazell celebrated their marriage with their families, and friends they have made at the Great Yarmouth charity Centre 81, where the met. Former live-in childcare nanny Alison suffered head and other injuries ... Read More »
Scottish charity PAMIS (Promoting A More Inclusive Society), whose head office is based at the University of Dundee, are launching a campaign on World Toilet Day, the 19 of November, to fund the first mobile Changing Places toilet in Scotland. PAMIS support people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and their families for a better, more inclusive life and are ... Read More »
A legendary Edinburgh war veteran, who has raised over £157,000 for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation, saw the thankful charity race to his aid after it learned he had a plight of his own. Tom Gilzean, 96, is well known for braving all weathers in his trademark tartan trousers to fundraise seven days a week on the Capital’s streets, but ... Read More »
A World War 2 veteran and media commentator has spoken out about his new found freedom after struggling with reduced mobility. Ninety seven-year-old former paratrooper and rifleman Victor Gregg from Swanmore in Hampshire, survived the horrific and controversial allied bomb attack on the historic German city of Dresden in 1945. Victor, then 26, was held prisoner by Germans after being ... Read More »
£156,000 awarded by the Big Lottery Fund and European Social Fund The statistics speak for themselves – around 6 per cent of people with a learning disability are in paid employment, despite more than 60 per cent wanting and being able to be in work. Those figures come from Mencap, looking at the picture across the UK. Across Warwickshire and ... Read More »
The Enham Trust have spoken out against the governments’ planned proposals which will mean only one in eight disabled people who want to work will receive the help they need; the equivalent of 45,000 fewer disabled people each year over the remainder of this parliament. The comments support a new report by the Employment Related Service Association (ERSA) ‘More than ... Read More »
National disability charity, Sense, warns that shrinking specialist employment support system will further marginalise disabled jobseekers National disability charity, Sense, has responded to the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) report which highlights that proposed cuts to funding in the Government’s employment programmes will see 45,000 fewer disabled people offered specialist support to find jobs. Warning that the new Work and ... Read More »
Over 15,000 more UK families are applying for vital grant support compared to five years ago, according to the latest figures from Family Fund, the UK’s largest charity providing grants to families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. Family Fund’s Annual Review 2015/16 outlines the impact of the 89,423 grants and support services provided to families across ... Read More »
A unique partnership between UK employment charity Shaw Trust and international sports technology business Ottobock, is calling for greater access to sport and assistive technology to achieve independence for disabled people. Shaw Trust and Ottobock will be using the 23rd Rehabilitation International World Congress in Edinburgh this year as a platform to raise the awareness of the importance of sport ... Read More »
RNIB Director of Engagement, Fazilet Hadi and RNIB Chair, Kevin Carey, both registered blind, took on the challenge alongside RNIB Director of Fundraising, Wanda Hamilton to help the charity continue to provide support to blind and partially sighted people. Earlier this month, Fazilet, Kevin and Wanda faced the challenge of a lifetime, trekking across the wild Icelandic landscape to raise ... Read More »
Southampton-based charity Independent Assistance Dog Agency (IADA) is raising funds to help disabled people train their dogs be be Assistance Dogs. Independent Assistance Dog Agency, also known as IADA, is a Southampton-based disability charity helping applicants to train their existing pet dogs to become their Assistance Dogs. Assistance Dogs include guiding dogs, which lead their owners around obstacles and halt ... Read More »
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