Cardiff Disability Pride 2025

Mary_Scope
Mary_Scope Posts: 6,299 Scope online community team
edited August 2025 in Actions and opportunities

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 celebrating local disabled people in Cardiff😄

A blonde woman in a white waistcoat and a red haired woman in a leopard print top on the stage in the Senedd giving a speech with disability pride written behind them on the powerpoint

First up was Mark Isherwood MS who was the event sponsor and told us his story and what disability pride means to him.

A tall man on the stage giving a speech with disability pride on the background behind him

Then, Neurodivergent Friendly Cymru gave a talk about the work they have done with Scope to produce sensory bags in Cardiff hubs. It was lovely to hear the steps towards making Cardiff a much more accessible place!

A woman in a red dress with grey curly hair giving a talk

Followed by Jackie from Cardiff Youth Service who gave us a poem about her experiences as a young disabled woman.

a young woman with a blonde mullet reciting a poem on stage

Next we had Chloe from Vision21 who put a smile on everybody’s face by giving us a really entertaining talk on pottery, what it means to her and her story about being a disabled artist.

A woman with dark hair in a bun wearing all black with the logo for Vision 21 behind her

Then we had the great Gavin Clifton who gave us a presentation about his experience about being a disabled author and writer!

A white man in a burgady tshirt on stage giving a speech with a powerpoint behind with a QR code on

After that was Nikita from DeafBlind UK talking about their organisation's successes and this was really lovely to hear how they have made such a positive difference to so many disabled people.

A woman with dark wearing a brown knitted vest and a white tshirt giving a speech on stage

Next was the wonderful Steph who told us all about her story into employment with Scope's Working On Wellbeing Service.

A woman sat down wearing green trousers giving a speech on stage

Followed by Anum who did a speech about her experience of being a disabled dancer and performed some Bollywood dancing. This was so much fun and I wanted to dance along! Watch the video here!

A woman with dark hair and stunning pink and silver traditional bollywood dancing dress on stage giving a speech

And finally, the day was closed by the absolutely amazing Choir – Shiny Happy People. They never fail to put a smile on everybody’s face and definitely ended the event on a high! Watch the video here!

A diverse group of people on stage, some people are in powered wheelchairs and a woman in a blue tshirt is stood in the front giving a speech on the stage

Comments

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,373 Championing

    It looked like an amazing day! Thanks for sharing, we can all pretend we were there too. 😁

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