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The members of our Campaign steering group
The Campaign Steering Group was set up to advise the Policy and Campaigns team about our work. We’re really excited to be learning from them! Here all nine of them telling us why they wanted to be part of the group.
Five Change 100 successes
Change 100 is a programme which brings together the UK’s top employers and talented disabled students and graduates to offer three months of paid work experience. Since launching in 2014 we have supported 403 interns into roles at 131 employers with...
One Leonard Cheshire Christmas Choir
Amy tells us about her journey creating our first Christmas Choir.
Can Do Solent: Part two
We caught up with Catherine about our Can Do gardening project in Portsmouth.
Power players at AFC Bournemouth Warriors
Powerchair football is more popular than ever. AFC Bournemouth are the latest Premier League club to launch a powerchair football team. We chat to Cherries players about the buzz of playing for your local team.
Final preparations
Our Leonard Cheshire Christmas Choir are making their final prepartions ahead of Tuesday's performance.
The spontaneity of going out has disappeared
Our latest research has found more than eight in ten disabled people face difficulties in pubs and bars. Grace tells us about her experience.
I’m so tired of people pushing in front of me
Jaz, one of our campaigners, told us how she brought a bike bell for her chair because she was so tired of people pushing in front of her.
I’m really proud of my work in Kenya
We have been working with PULSE since 2009 and last year alone we had six volunteers supporting our work and that of our Global Alliance partners across three countries. Patricia was one of them and she has now been back from Kenya for six months...
Newport Can Do gardening project: Part Two
We caught up with Katrina about what Newport Can Doers have been up to in their gardening project.
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