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Invite your MP to meet with Scope
Hi everyone 😊 It's Tori from the campaigns team here. I just wanted to share an action we set up recently. It allows you to easily invite your MP to meet with Scope during party conference season. Invite your MP to meet with Scope Enter your details. We’ll automatically identify who your MP is, and add the details you’ve…
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Mass Observation Project
Welcome to Mass Observation Project 1981-2019 Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. Still growing, it is one of the most important…
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Petition for housing in Haringey
While this is one individual, who sadly became disabled in a car accident, I lived in the same borough, and the housing story is familiar to me. In my case I was given 40 years on the waiting list unless my family through me out on the street. I didn't wish to be a 40something still living with aging parents if I could…
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I stopped drinking water so I wouldn’t need to use the toilet
Article by Melissa Parker. From the Metro I’ve always needed help finding accessible bathrooms – and it’s always made me feel like a burden (Picture: Melissa Parker). ‘Please may I use the bathroom?’, I asked. Desperate for the loo while on a family holiday in Spain, I clearly remember the expression on a relative’s face –…
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Sport or No Sport- Help Us Understand Movement, Fitness & Quality of Life
We are looking for adults living with cerebral palsy who participate in recreational sport AND those who do not to help us understand the relationship between sport participation, physical fitness and quality of life. Participation involves simple physical assessments (strength, balance, coordination, and endurance) and a…
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Disability hate petition
Too much hate going on. Here is a link to the petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK - Petitions I've signed the petition, but unfortunately it just seems to be about the general public hating on us, there's no mention of MP's and the media, which are the main things that are fuelling the hate in…
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Could you help shape our work? Access for Everyone Listening Survey
Hi everyone, I’m Nicola from A Place for Everyone CIC. We’ve launched our Access for Everyone Listening Survey. This is our main survey of the year, and what people tell us will directly help shape our future work and projects. We want to understand what it is really like to live, work and take part in your community—and…
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opportunity to join a Community Advisory Board (CAB)
This is an opportunity to join a Community Advisory Board (CAB) that will guide and inform research conducted by the Women's Cancer Department at UCL's EGA Institute for Women's Health, grounding that research in the lived experience, perspectives, and priorities of people and communities affected by it. Joining the CAB is…
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Fighting the DWP Matrix: A Free Chronicle
Hi everyone. I wanted to share something born out of pure frustration with the UK welfare system. Most of us here know exactly what it feels like to face robotic scripts, lost paperwork and endless walls of bureaucracy when we are at our lowest.I started a blog, but let me be absolutely clear. This is not another dry,…
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Hackcessible: Could you help shape the next generation of assistive technology?
Hackcessible 2026 is looking for disabled people who have a problem, challenge or everyday frustration that they think could be improved through engineering and design. Hackcessible is a student-led assistive technology make-a-thon at the University of Sheffield. Over several months, student teams work alongside disabled…
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Looking for wheelchair users to help test RollSense
Hi everyone, We’re building RollSense, a mobile app designed to help wheelchair users understand how sidewalks and outdoor routes actually feel to travel on — not just whether they are technically marked as wheelchair accessible. The idea is simple: Your phone is securely mounted or fixed in a stable position on your…
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DWP complaint? Parliament petition to solve missing complaints
This is petition about DWP complaints. USERS not made public. UC, ESA, PIP you name it, they deleted it. Either literally or metaphorically. They misquoted law, facts, change what you said. I can't fix that. But this could fix complaints being not accepted then being removed without your knowledge. Sign the petition to get…
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Improving travel apps for people with accessibility needs
The University of Southampton is doing research on how to best design apps that help disabled people plan and make their everyday journeys. If you are 18 or over and have one or more of the impairments listed below, or any other condition that affects your ability to use public transport or active travel (e.g., walking,…
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📋 Research Survey: Workplace Support for Disabled Employees
My name is Doreen, and I'm an MA student at the University of Essex researching how workplace accommodation frameworks affect whether disabled employees stay in work. I'd love your help! Whether you have lived experience of disability, work alongside disabled colleagues, or have managed employees with health conditions,…
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Carer’s Allowance Call for Evidence Submission
The government is currently debating whether the law on carers needs to be changed - maybe it does - but what about UNPAID carers - spouses who give up everything to care for their "loved ones" ? 1. Introduction I am submitting evidence because my wife has been my full‑time carer for more than 20 years. She provides care…
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Participants Needed for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Regenerating Presence: Immersive Nature Environments for Wellbeing and Place-Based Healing through XR We are looking for adults living in the UK with spinal cord injury (SCI) to take part in a research study exploring body image and body appreciation following SCI. Taking part will involve a short questionnaire, which…
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SEND Master student looking for individuals to interview!
Good afternoon! I am a University student studying Special Educational Needs currently doing my master dissertation!…
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Free app to find toilet, parking and health facilities: Find Nearby
Hi everyone, My name is Callum and I’m the Glasgow-based founder of Find Nearby, a mobile app that helps people quickly find toilets, parking, benches, playparks, health locations and other useful places nearby. I’ve recently made several key accessibility, family and health searches completely free with no ads, including…
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Kindness
Recently I’ve managed to get outdoors some more and have discovered a secret garden that I like to sit in. It’s very peaceful and shaded which helps when it’s been hot. I don’t see many people here but I was there recently and I wasn’t feeling well and I guess it must have shown in my face because someone came and gave me…
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Share your experience of home enteral feeding and homecare services
Project background The Patients Association are working with the medical device and healthcare company Abbott to better understand the experiences of adult patients who receive - or who have previously received - home enteral feeding (HEF) and have used homecare services. Home enteral feeding (HEF) is a way of providing…
