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☀️🌡️We Need Your Help - Share Your Summer Experience! The Cost of Summer Heatwaves ☀️🌡️
We know that life costs when you're disabled and when we think about the rising energy costs, most of us jump straight to winter. It makes sense because we naturally think about things like heating, longer nights and staying warm. But what about summer? What about during heatwaves? In a recent survey conducted by Scope, it…
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Is your child 16-19 and wondering how their benefits are affected by Education/Work changes?
With many leaving School or College, we've had quite a few questions about how this might impact their benefits. Therefore I have shared a link below to a page on our website with some information that might be useful for some of our members: Qualifying young person when your child is 16 to 19
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Disability Pride Month - July 2025
We celebrate Disability Pride Month every July. It’s an important moment for disabled people to come together as a community. An opportunity to share experiences and start conversations. It’s a celebration of the creativity, resilience, and achievements of disabled people. Disability Pride Month is for anyone who is…
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Volunteers Week-Celebrating Welsh Volunteers
Volunteers are the lifeblood of voluntary and community organisations in Wales. They are at the heart of a wide range of services, providing support to a huge diversity of people and communities who rely on them. In Wales it is estimated that approximately 938,000 volunteers contributed a total of 145 million hours of…
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Accessible housing for disabled home-seekers
Disabled and older people can find wheelchair user homes for rent more swiftly thanks to a strengthened search function on England’s dedicated accessible housing portal, Accessible NOW. The site boasts key information that other property portals may not have, including accessibility features like wet rooms, step-free…
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Hi, my name is dor1970! Wheelchair came in the wrong size, but they won't refund. What can we do?
I have had trouble with a wheelchair I received from wheelchair services for my husband who has MSA. I was put in touch with AJM healthcare to obtain the nhs voucher scheme through our occupational therapist. My husband was fitted for the chair knowing what his health problem was. Several weeks passed and no sign of the…
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Emergency back up plan for when carers get ill
hi does anyone have a template for a good emergency back up plan and what sort of things to put down n place just in case thank you
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Ordering nutritional meals
Firstly my apologies if this is the wrong category for posting, I can't find a category for ordering nutritional meals? I know there is a question on the PIP form that relates to can you prepare a nutritional meal and I remember in the past, being told by one of the assessors that because I can make toast, that counts as a…
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Is London getting less safe?
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My back garden.
This is a poem I have just wrote. Its about my relaxing time….. Which we all need. My back garden is a thing of joy It changes every day Is it all about that morning glow Or, is it as the night falls The colours are whatever you imagine the sky as, black as ink, as Sun falls into red, blue, and pink. The last rays fight…
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Any foodbanks without referral?
Hi hope this is allowed ,recently moved into a new home afer being homeless since november , waiting for my uc payment this week and until then I am literally fund and foodless , does anybody know anywhere I can use a foodbank in the liverpool area without a referral , ive literally ate 5 boiled eggs since tuesday and the…
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Will writing with Scope?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Deprivation of Capital Allowance Rules.
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Deal with loud annoying rude neighbours
how do I deal with loud and rude neighbours that always cause trouble? shouting all day non stop? we’ve had police the council knock on there door etc and they still haven’t been kicked out. according to other neighbours they don’t even pay there council tax too. Every Thursday or Friday they have this guy turn up shouting…
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me,myself and i
moved into a bungalow with my family nearly 2 years a go had to sell my house to move into a council bungalow had to live of my savings for 2 years due to to much savings and now there nearly gone im just got back onto UC after a 5 month battle so now im left with no savings and living off benefits again . ive worked all…
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condishion bruces
Is it common to get bruses that just appera for no reasion on the body please .
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Hi, my name is Billybobbat! I am looking for an independent capacity assessor for my adult brother.
I am looking for an independent capacity assessor for my adult brother.
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Coeliac food
I've had coeliac disease for thirty years, I've suffered massively over that time, and things came to a head just over two years ago when I could no longer stand the 24-7 pain and nausea,really odd symptoms, before this I'd vague symptoms that my gp totally ignored and refused to believe how much I suffered. Years of…
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I deleted social media.
I finally did it. I’ve deleted instagram/facebook twitter. I no longer no longer find value in them and tbh they just make me depressed by doom scrolling, having no friends seeing sad reels etc. I only keep YouTube WhatsApp for my family. And so on. the only issue I fear is people might think I’m weird for not having…
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DVLA help
Hi! So DVLA sent a questionnaire to someone in my mental health team (who I've never met, spoken to and was not the doctor I named on my M1 form they'd sent me). My team also haven't actually received this letter but when I called the DVLA to ask if they could resend it to them or send it to the secretary's email, they…
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Good Morning Everyome
Morning everyone hope everyone has a good weekend . 🥰 Coffee is much needed ! Tracie :)
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Hi, my name is kevinfairless! security door chains: is there any guidance about the height these...
security door chains: is there any guidance about the height these must be fitted? thanks you
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Hi, my name is RupertBear61! Had a bad experience with Green Power scooters
Hi, I wanted to share a recent experience I've had with Green Power for anyone considering buying a scooter from them. I like the scooter but their after sales is diabolical. I bought the Fastest model less than 8 months ago, the scooter is good, but it was delivered with a fault, they forgot to connect the lead…
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Idk what to do in life anymore.
I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. I try to mix in with people and it never works well.. people just either already have there own friends or they don’t care. I feel like a alien every time I step outside my home. I get scared walking around near people looking at people and speaking to people. I could easily…
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Grassroots hero 'proud as punch' to teach children and young adults with disabilities how to swim
Joanne Barber founded the inclusive North East Disability Swimming Club in 2010 which meets monthly in Durham. Watch the interview on ITVX
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Universal Credit Review Or a Invasion of My Privacy
I received notification that I need to provide bank statements for Universal Credit Review. I have no issue providing the income payment of my wages for which they know already from my employer but why do they need to see itemised payments. I really feel this is a invasion of my privacy. Any feedback would be greatly…
