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Baywatch 2025 (It's not what you think)
The UK certainly has the resources to dismantle many accessibility barriers but too many still persist. One key issue lies with private car park operators, who often lack the commitment to priortise disabled bay enforcement and accessibility improvements. Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK) is tackling this head-on through our…
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Cardiff Disability Pride 2025
Yesterday was a powerful and important day celebrating Disability Pride at the Senedd! The event was organised and facilitated by Scopes Jenna Trakins who is the Community Programme Lead (Cardiff) and Becky Hill who is the Community Adviser (Cardiff). They did an incredible job of making this a fun and empowering day…
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Feedback on moving into residential care
Do you live in residential care? Or have you lived in residential care in the last year? We're creating a new webpage for the Scope website and would love to hear from you. If you'd be willing to help, please email Content.Core@scope.org.uk. It would involve speaking to us about your experience of moving into residential…
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Moderation feedback
This discussion was created from comments split from: Means Testing PIP - Whats everyone thoughts?.
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💚 24/7 Samaritans Awareness Day 💚 Thank you!
The 24th of July (24/7) is a reminder that Samaritan’s offer a service available 24 hours a day, 7 day’s a week to support anybody who needs it, whenever they need it. We’re beginning to talk about Mental Health more, but there remains a stigma, (even more so for men), preventing people from feeling like they’re able to…
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Participants needed! Your Story Matters: Help Us Understand Disability and Harassment
Hello👋 We’re a small team of MSc Forensic Psychology students from Kingston University, currently conducting an ethically approved study on the psychological impact of online and offline harassment experienced by young adults (18–25) with physical disabilities. This area is still massively under-researched, and our mission…
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Lived experience-led research on eating disorders
Hi everyone, I'm Dr Kai Thomas, a researcher leading a study at Cardiff University exploring the lived experiences of eating disorders in trans, gender diverse, and neurodivergent people. We are looking for people who are… Aged 18+ years Fluent in English and based in the UK, And have lived experience of an eating disorder…
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Disability Pride Month - A poem by our member, Globster
A poem called Celebrating Disability Pride Month I accept my disability is a part of my life. No longer do my tears of sadness fill my eyes; instead, I will continue to rise, as we all have creative talent within us. We metaphorically all stand together as one, as we shine like the radiant gems we are, who continue to…
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Parliament website has a new petition
Please sign the petition on parliaments website to call for an immediate general election...get this awful liebour government out!!!
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Disability Pride Month - How can we all be a better ally to the Disabled Community?
Celebrate with the community Attending and supporting disability pride events is a great way to show support to the community. If you've a local disability pride event this month, why not pop along and show support? Here's a link to some of the events being held this year - Disability Pride Month 2025 Events Follow…
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Survey: Thoughts about media representation of disabilities, chronic conditions and impairments?
Hello! My name is Isabel, and I am a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) conducting research for my Dissertation. I am conducting an ANONYMOUS survey asking people living with impairments, long-term conditions (like chronic illness) and/or disabilities about their observations…
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This could be you or one of your loved ones..
Please show you care. I posted this a few days ago as it breaks my heart to see how an organisation has caused my cousin so much distress to save themselves a little inconvenience. I started a campaign to raise awareness and get BA to pay attention but only 4 of my close friends outside of this community have retweeted or…
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Important call to action: MPs will vote on these plans again in Parliament on 9 July 2025.
The Government has recently introduced the Universal Credit Welfare Bill. On 1 July, the bill had its second reading. Parliament voted to pass the bill which means it will now have its third reading next week. The Government has now changed the proposals in the bill since its first reading. But it will still make cuts to…
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JKP Writing Prize - a competition for aspiring writers 📖🥇
The JKP Writing Prize is a competition for aspiring writers from underrepresented backgrounds. The theme this year is: Everyday Disability and Chronic Illness: Stories of Joy, Resistance, and Anti-Ableism. The voices of disabled and chronically ill individuals remain vastly underrepresented across many sectors, including…
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Work and Pensions Debate tomorrow
Hi folks, Just to remind everyone, the welfare bill will be going through it's second reading tomorrow, most likely around 12am or so. If you've got the time, you can tune into freeview channel 232 to watch it. There will be a vote at the end of the debate, if they lose, that's the end of the bill. Also, I discovered by…
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Purpl Discounts
Hello, I just came across purpldiscounts.com and wondered if anyone had heard of it/use it? Apparently you can get discounts as a disabled person, I saw some as much as 20%.
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Email Template - Welfare Reform
Flying visit tonight folks (but will flap by tomorrow). Been emailing MPs again. If any of you have the energy to send another email, feel free to use mine as a template, just copy n paste + add your name / address and MP's name. You can find their email addresses here: https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons Their…
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TheAlienGame - A Study of Emotion Recognition in Children
Hello, My name is Will Turton, and I am a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the University of East London. As part of my doctoral research, I am running a study designed to explore and improve how we assess emotion recognition in neurodivergent children, aged 8–11. The project is called ‘The Alien Game: A New Game for…
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We're looking for 100 testers. Could one of them be you?
We're building something exciting (a brand new AI-powered tool to help members of our community) and we need your help to put it through its paces! We need 100 curious, friendly folk from our community to try it out and share their honest thoughts. You don’t need to be techy, just willing to give it a go and let us know…
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Welfare reform and UC PIP
I've just lost my post for the first time - another 2 pages. Frustrating. Here's a shorter version Buddhism mantra ''Extend the Vajra wall of determination.'' Please Google this for the full inspiring mediational, compassionate meaning. We need to see this campaign through to the - not bitter -end??! I am joyful. We do not…
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Research Participants wanted! Disability and Sexuality research
Hi Everyone! My name is Bev Enion, and I am a second-year PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield. I am researching how disability and intimacy are represented on Instagram. An Instagram account is not needed to take part in this research. I am looking to speak to women who are over the age of 18 and who have a…
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NHS calls for 200,000 new blood donors
NHS calls for 200,000 new blood donors as supplies run low Euan O'Byrne Mulligan BBC News Published 9 June 2025 The NHS has warned that it continues to face a "challenging" blood shortage, as it calls for 200,000 new donors to come forward. Concern over blood stocks prompted the health service to issue an "amber alert"…
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The Impact of Disability Benefits Survey
Hi everyone! My name is Alex and I am a disabled researcher working at Birkbeck. I look at disability benefits as well as our courts and tribunal systems. I am looking to gather peoples experiences of receiving disability benefits to examine the impact they can have on the wellbeing of disabled people. I have made a short…
