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Last reminder about Scope's festive Santa Dash
Join Scope for a virtual, accessible, 5k Santa Dash While we can't hold mass events at the moment, you can still take on a festive challenge this December Whether you run, walk, wheel (or anything else you like), take part in your local area and support Scope this Christmas Festive attire is encouraged and you'll get your…
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Get Yourself Active at Home – New Timetable
New accessible pre-recorded videos to support disabled people to get active at home during the coronavirus outbreak. Disability Rights UK has been working together with Sense and Durham University to find out how disabled people have been staying active during the coronavirus pandemic, and to find out what resources can…
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Get Yourself Active at Home – New Timetable
New accessible pre-recorded videos to support disabled people to get active at home during the coronavirus outbreak. Disability Rights UK has been working together with Sense and Durham University to find out how disabled people have been staying active during the coronavirus pandemic, and to find out what resources can…
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Have you travelled with an assistance dog? Tell the Department for Transport about your experiences
The Government want to ensure disabled people have the same access
to transport as everyone else and for them to travel confidently, easily and without extra cost. If you use an assistance dog, or
have done so in the last year, we’d love for you to share your experiences by
completing the survey. The survey will take…
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Disability and YouTube!
Hi everyone, I'm currently carrying out a university research project into disabled people's experiences using YouTube. This includes accessing and navigating the platform, participation and representation, and what you may like or dislike about the site. I am looking for the perspectives of people with all kinds of…
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What issues are you experiencing with communication from the government?
Scope is looking to find out what issues disabled people are
encountering from Government communications about the coronavirus
pandemic We are specifically looking for examples of bad
communications about disabled people’s employment, but we are also interested
in any piece of communication from Government that was about…
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Do you think the Beauty and hair Industry is inclusive?
Do you think the Beauty and hair Industry is inclusive?
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Would you mind filing out my survey on issues you faced as a child with CP?
Hello everyone, My name is Luke and I am a product design student at Nottingham Trent University. Hope everyone is well and enjoying the holiday season. I am currently researching into designing a new product to help children with cerebral palsy for my university project. To do this it would be amazing if I can learn what…
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Addressing ableism in the Hair and Beauty industry
Hi everyone, I am Gautham Marthandan and
I'm a postgraduate student at Leeds Beckett University. My team and I are currently working on a PR campaign for NHBF (Hair and Beauty
Federation) and BBC (British Beauty Council) regarding ableism in the hair and
beauty industry. Our objective is to raise awareness on the issue and…
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Custom Made Clothing - Online Shopping
Hi all, could you please help me with following survey. It's for a project l am working on. Thank you in advance. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BS9MY5K
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Seating
Hello everyone, I sincerely hope that you’re all safe and well? Like a lot of people, I have been staying in, but every now and again, I need out, just for a little while, in order to help keep me from going stir crazy. But, I understand that the priority is on being safe, but my problem is that I use crutches to help get…
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New ITV quiz show - Looking for contestants
Hosted by
comedian Lee Mack, The 1% Club is a brand-new ITV1 entertainment quiz show like
no other. We aren't looking
for a traditional studio audience, we are looking for 100 people to participate
in the quiz with the potential of winning up £100,000! The questions in
the quiz are brainteasers, not general knowledge - so…
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Hotel Adivce
Hello, My name is bekah. I am using this forum to get some advice from the community. I work in a hotel and we are looking at ways we can improve guests with a disability's experience to ensure the stay is as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. Here are the questions: 1) What do you feel like is missing when you go to a…
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Disability online survey
Hey everyone I hope you are all having a great day. I am currently a student in year 10 approaching my GCSEs working a project to design a product which help people with disabilities. Currently I am thinking of making a product that will especially help people who use wheelchairs. I have a link to form below consisting of…
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Looking for Work With A Disability Comments for Online Article
Hi all, I'm doing an article for an online magazine, The Everyday, on looking for work with a disability. I'm registered disabled with complex partial epilepsy. It doesn't affect my life too much but I was unable to work in a full-time job before I was diagnosed so my CV doesn't flow as smoothly as some others. I have been…
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Views on climate change?
Hi! My name's Kiri, I'm 20, and I'm a care worker for children and young people with disabilities as well as an English student and climate justice activist. The intersection between climate justice and disability seems really under-researched. I'm planning an article on this issue, and would love to hear any of your views…
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Would a software that helps complete your sentences be useful?
Hello everyone, I hope you are keeping well and safe. My team and I are developing a predictive text teleprompter app that can help people have more fluent spoken conversations when they are struggling to find the right words to say. As you are a speech and language adviser, we want to prioritise your thoughts and opinions…
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Hi, my name is Susanna - I'd love to talk shopping with you!
Hi everyone, I'd really like to get your insights and thoughts around your experiences of shopping and retail as a whole. I'm aware that there are many mobility shops which I have mixed feelings about. They offer solutions but I, personally, find them uninspiring and outdated. I'd also like to understand how your…
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Meet Santa this Christmas
Scope are delighted to be working with Virgin Media to increase the accessibility of their grotto. They're giving 50 disabled families, and those shielding, the chance to enjoy a one-to-one video chat with Santa, live from his grotto in the North Pole. It’s free to enter, and disabled families only compete with other…
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Hi, my name is Martindougan11! Newsround BBC shout out
Hello everyone :) My name is Martin and I am a journalist at the BBC. I work on Newsound, the news programme for kids. At the moment I am working on a story: How young disabled kids have been impacted by the Covid crisis! Our core audience are 7-13 year olds, give or take. I'm reaching out to see if anyone within that…
