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January 31, 2018 | by Disabled Living | General
January’s Story of the Month goes to, Kerrie Keen, 37 years old who talks about her son’s journey with cerebral palsy. Kerrie is married to her husband, Owen and is a proud mum to her 15 year old son and 4 year old identical twin boys, Cooper and Lucas. If you would like to catch […]
Tags: Cerebral palsy, Children
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January 19, 2018 | by Disabled Living | General
The following is a guest blog by AskJules, who are exhibiting at our Kidz to Adultz Middle event this year in March. This blog post will discover facts that you may not have known about AskJules along with their advice for those with a disability who are starting a new term at university. Whilst the […]
Tags: Exhibitions, Kidz to Adultz
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January 19, 2018 | by Disabled Living | General
This is a guest feature with Carrie Aimes, founder of Life on the Slow Lane, lifestyle and disability blog. Carrie has lived with muscular dystrophy for 29 years (her whole life). And we took the opportunity to ask her a few questions. Please can you tell us a little bit about your disability? I have […]
Tags: muscular dystrophy
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January 17, 2018 | by Disabled Living | General
This is a guest blog by Remap for Disabled Living. Remap is a charity that helps disabled people achieve independence and a better quality of life by designing and making equipment for their individual needs. Last year the charity helped over 3,500 people in this way and gave the equipment free of charge in every […]
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January 11, 2018 | by Disabled Living | General
As it’s Heritage Treasures Day, we thought this would be a great opportunity to share the reasons as to why we love our heritage at Disabled Living. As you may already know, Disabled Living has had several name changes over the years and there have been many special memories shared. Throughout 2017 we shared our […]
Tags: Archive, Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund
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January 4, 2018 | by Disabled Living | General
This Story of the Month is based on a young boy called Sebastian, who attend our Kidz to Adultz North event in November 2017 with his parents. His mum (Vicky) gives her insight along with dad (Paul) about their journey of seeing their little boy grow up with Angelman syndrome. Please can you tell us […]
Tags: Kidz to Adultz, parenting
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December 21, 2017 | by Disabled Living | General
December is a time to be feeling festive and prepare for Christmas. We have got a lot of news for you to catch up on this month. There have been several events at Redbank House and Disabled Living giving us that Christmassy feeling. We put our Christmas trees up at the beginning of the month […]
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December 18, 2017 | by Disabled Living | General
We recently received a ‘Speak Up’ newsletter from Manchester People First (MPF) and felt inspired to write a blog about what they do. From 1992 to 2017, MPF have given training and support to disabled adults and professionals, with the aim to campaign for disabled people’s rights. This year, they were awarded with ‘Best Service […]
Tags: Manchester
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December 13, 2017 | by Disabled Living | General
This is a guest blog by Heather Roberts, who you might have seen featured in our other blog posts. It’s not just in Manchester and Salford that Disabled Living has operated. Way back in the late 1800s The Band of Kindness, as it was known back them, was implementing novel ideas all over the country. […]
Tags: Archive, Heritage
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December 8, 2017 | by Disabled Living | General
At the end of October we introduced Ben Andrews to you and told you why we thought he was deserving of our Story of the Month. Since then, Ben has started a whole new project which involves his series of videos, ‘Breaking Barriers’. These look at topics such as, transport as a barrier to an […]
Tags: Disability, Lifestyle
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