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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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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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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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Lazy Weapon
Didn't go far today, just to the secret pond in Durham. The route to it is more technical than it looks, but it's a lovely peaceful place that not many people know of. Here it is, the secret pond. Spent a while here enjoying the peace and quiet. Then headed back the same way I came. Look at the state of the rubber on my…
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Betrayed by friend
Hi. I'm new here. I'm feeling isolated. I have mental health issues and I've had a friend for nearly 30 years and suddenly last week I got a text from her saying she was having a break from "sad" people. I feel even more depressed now. It seems like the only thing I've done wrong is to have mental health issues
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Photos
What started as a day planned to sit by the river, listen to music and get inebriated turned into 7.3 miles mainly climbing hills. I love climbing hills in my chair. The photo above is the entrance to the secret pond. Technical in a wheelchair but easy if you know how. I didn't go there today. Bumped into a friend when I…
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I have a problem
Hi im not to sure if is the right place to post this. Because im to embarrassed to say
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Friday Morning
On Friday I took an early morning wheel up to Durham Cathedral. Nice and quiet early in the day. Couldn't get a long shot photo of the Cathedral as they're setting up tents for Durham Fringe Festival. (Yes, I know it's childish but the above image makes me laugh) I've included a couple of drone shots I took earlier this…
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Hi, my name is Godgurl7! Needing help with Shopify/ Etsy shop set up
Hi. Anyone can point out a tech whizz who can help step by step with Shopify/ Etsy shop set up ? Have started, but brain damage from stroke creating holes in task package . Bromley.Thanks !
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Direct Payments - for or against?
I will be attending an LA meeting soon, representing self-directed support using Direct Payments. Any suggestions as to what works, how well your LA administer it and are you encouraged to use it. For example this is on my LA website relating to Direct Payments:- "It’s important you read the terms and conditions that come…
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ADHD, burnout, and trying to survive – looking for support, work, and a way forward
Hi everyone, I’m really grateful to have found this community. I’ve been going through a difficult time and wanted to share my experience — and hopefully connect with people who understand what it’s like. I have ADHD, and for as long as I can remember, life has felt a bit heavier for me than for others. I’ve always been…
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Starting online business
Hello, everyone ! I truly hope all is as well as it could be today. I'm a brain damaged older lady seeking help with getting a children's streetwear business essay off the ground. Getting there, but confused with knowing which shipping shipping profile to use, etc. Anyone with Shopify / Etsy/ Printify experience out there…
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Getting married
Hi everyone Me and my partner both have cerebral Palsy spastic quadriplegia full time wheelchair user. We are getting married in 2027? Any hints or tips? Struggling what to to do for first dance? first kiss?
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Hi, my name is Sushmita! going for my left TKR, but terrified of surgery.
I am going for my left TKR on 11th August, I have moderate arthritis on my left knee but the reason for TKR is I have an injury to the same knee which occurred 3 months ago resulted a complete tear in the meniscus which cannot be repaired. I am terrified about the Surgery and the post op recovery . I am female 59 years old…
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Without You All I Be Lost
It's been a difficult few months for all of us, but I want to express my sincere gratitude for helping me and others through these challenging times. Often, I post late at night or in the early hours of the morning, and sometimes, within minutes, there's a friendly soul out there in the darkest hours answering my questions…
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Affordable holidays for wheelchair users
I’ve relatively recently become a wheelchair user - about 16 months ago - and have found it really difficult to adapt. It’s not just my physical disability (which I can’t change) but also the impact it’s had on me emotionally. I’ve been depressed as I feel like I’ve lost the old me and am struggling to find a new identity.…
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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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Dog Mess Collector
Hello. Someone keeps leaving dog mess right in front of my house on the footpath to the entrance. No one can do anything to prevent it. If anyone can suggest a long handled dog mess collector that bags the mess at the same time it collects it, I would be grateful. I cannot bend my knees much or my back and have dexterity…
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Scam alert
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grant for my husband and adjustable bed
I need to apply for a grant for my husband and adjustable bed, he has a back injury and the doctor has said they won't operate due to a number of factors so I'm trying to make life a bit easier for him as he isn't going to get any better. Any advice is welcomed thankyou
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Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month 🧠
Mental health is being discussed more now than ever before. It’s encouraging to see more people opening up about their mental health and educating ourselves to better understand and support one another. Shining a supportive light on men’s mental health is particularly important, because men often don’t feel they can reach…
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Can’t sleep as usual.
so been trying to sleep but I can’t. Just keep thinking about my life. ik some people probably don’t like reading this but I have no where else to vent too I was looking at my old instagram accounts going through my comments realising how I got used as a kid and bullied by people at school but I didn’t notice because I was…
