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PTSD Awareness Month - June
PTSD Awareness Month is a vital campaign dedicated to raising public understanding of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) across the UK. The main objective of the month is to remove the stigma that frequently surrounds trauma and prevents individuals from seeking help. Statistics show that an estimated…
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Disability Pride Event – Leeds
Scope Leeds Community Hub invites you to join us for an event to mark Disability Pride Month and celebrate our talented, resilient and diverse community 💜 Disability Pride Month is a time to celebrate disabled identity — and to shine a light on the barriers that still exist. This uplifting event brings people together to…
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Celebrate Disability Pride at Scope's Bolton Hub!
We are thrilled to invite you to celebrate Disability Pride with Scope! This is a fantastic opportunity to come together, connect and celebrate our community. Here are all the details you need: 📅 Date: Wednesday 1st July 2026 ⏰ Time: 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM 📍 Location: The Bolton Hub, Bold St, Bolton, BL1 1LS This is an…
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Is your comment not showing up? This may be why.
To help keep our community safe and supportive, we’ve introduced a more careful keyword filter in line with the Online Safety Act 2023. This means that if a post contains certain flagged words, it won’t appear straight away, but instead it’ll be sent to our team for a quick review first. As we work 10am to 6pm, 7 days a…
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New Feedback Process: Help us improve the community
New Feedback Process: Help us improve the community We’re always working to make this community a safe, supportive, and welcoming space for everyone. Your feedback plays a big role in that. To make sure your thoughts are captured and reviewed efficiently, we’ve set up a new feedback form. This helps us manage suggestions,…
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Commonly used acronyms on the community.
Here on the community, many people will use acronyms when talking about various benefits, or conditions. I thought it could be useful to list many that are most commonly used. If you see any that aren't on the list, please feel free to mention them and we can add them to the list. AA - Attendance Allowance AP - Assessment…
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Scope community accessibility statement
Scope’s commitment to website accessibility We are committed to making our website (www.forum.scope.org.uk) as accessible as possible. It is tested every 6 months. We want everyone to be able to use our site no matter what their impairments are, or what technologies they use. This is part of our An Equal Future strategy We…
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Safeguarding: What to do if you are concerned about someone
Keeping our members safe At Scope, keeping our online community members safe is our top priority. This guide will help you understand what a safeguarding concern is and what to do if you're worried about someone. What is a safeguarding concern? In our online community, we can't see body language or hear tone of voice. We…
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How-to guide: Mobile device or tablet
Creating an account To post on the online community, you will need to register an account through the Register page. You can reach this page through a few different ways: Select the Enter icon in the top right corner of the screen, this will look like a tall rectangle with an arrow entering from its left side. This will…
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Introducing Scope's online community
What is Scope’s online community? Scope’s online community is a safe and welcoming online space where disabled people and their families can talk about the things that matter to them. Our members can browse our categories and create discussions or post comments to ask questions, make friends and share their experiences.…
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How-to guide: Desktop PC
Creating an account To post on the online community, you will need to register an account through the Register page. You can reach this page through a few different ways: Select the Register button in the top right corner of the screen. This will open the Register page. On the Home, Recent Discussions or Categories page,…
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Reporting content
Reporting content Sometimes you'll read something that you think breaks our online community house rules and shouldn't be allowed on the online community, or perhaps you just think the Online Community Team should be told about it. To report content that concerns you: Scroll down to the reaction bar (at the bottom of the…
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Online Community House rules
Welcome We are a community connected by disability. Make friends, share experiences, get the advice you need and discuss what matters to you. Please note, you must be 18 or over to join and use the Scope online community. The online community is for peer-to-peer support and is not intended as a source of medical or…
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Fancy your chances on BBC's The Traitors! Are you to be trusted, or a traitor?!
Studio Lambert are looking for a diverse range of people to take part in the next series of the BBC1 multi-award-winning reality competition series The Traitors. The Traitors is a competition series built on strategy, suspicion and deception, filmed in the Scottish Highlands. A team of contestants will compete in a series…
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Hot weather please Report Rough Sleepers To Council
Hey Guys, Please tell the council about anyone you think is at risk sleeping rough this week they should put them in a place where they can get cool or give water and check. Thanks The reason i know this is Iv slept in a car in both weather extremes hot and cold and got iced in. Sometimes of a night it could get cold early…
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Attendance Allowance+ PIP
Hello can anybody help me and my wife are disabled and pensioners I just wondered if you could claim Attendance Allowance and PIP at the same time and which is the Best one to claim if you can only claim one of them Thanks Alan
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Dystonia
is there anyone else here who has cerebral palsy and suffers with dystonia I’ve been having bad flare ups where I’m locked in for days recently and it’s painful how do you deal with it?
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Data centres
Where i live we have the most Data centres and a new massive one being built people pushed back but they changed a clause that doesnt need permission to built not sure of those details But my concern is and its a big concern is the water resources it takes to run these centres
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So - the algorithm
Tried to post, mentioned grape (not detail, no trigger-context) but don't you think it's weird. I can't even say, very politely. We have no voice.
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Benefits for children when 50:50 custody
hi, my son is going to start living with his father 50% of the time. I currently and always have claimed the child benefit and universal credit child element for him. He will be living with myself 50% of the time but his father has asked me to transfer the child benefit over to him so that he is elegible for another…
