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SATURDAY! Take a trip to #WW2 #PlanetTooting & relive wartime wedding of Gladys & Arthur All Saints Church, Tooting & join their descendants for ‘The Balloon Girls of Tooting Common’ Tour Meet 2pm Tooting Bec Station The FOTC eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-balloon-…

Join us tomorrow as we launch our new strategy called 'Mtiriko'and hear from the disability justice activists we work with.

If you haven't yet registered, find the full details for the webinar here: add.org.uk/introducing-mt….

#DisabilityJustice #Mtiririko #NewStrategyLaunch

This is why we love our local history! Glorious scenes on sun-kissed Wimbledon Park Road #Southfields as blue plaque unveilied for #FirstLady #EleanorRoosevelt An unforgettable morning of joyous heritage in #WandsworthBoroughOfCulture CONGRATULATIONS Alice Fookes & all involved!

We are absolutely thrilled to have won the Arts and Culture category at the BATCA awards ceremony last night. It was for our Planet Tooting work, which championed the history and diversity of our local community

Wandsworth is London Borough of Culture 2025! 🥳

Thank you Mayor of London and the hundreds of community organisations, creative venues, schools, businesses and residents of all ages who have made this possible.

wandsworth.gov.uk/culture

Let's do this together!

#mylocalculture

The Accessible Transport Policy Commission, chaired by Tanni Grey-Thompson, is launching the #AccessibleTransportCharter in Parliament today. It calls for local and regional leaders to eliminate barriers to travel for disabled people. Read and sign here: policyconnect.org.uk/news/accessibl….

1. We are proud to be a ZeroProject.org Awardee 2024! Our work with #InclusiveFutures on collaborating with organisations of people with disabilities working to make education more inclusive in Bangladesh and Tanzania has been selected among 523 nominations from 97 countries for

Many congratulations David!

Several people recently have advised me to ‘stay positive’ in the light of my terminal #cancer diagnosis. They mean well of course, but does ‘positivity’ help & should I feel bad when advice like this exasperates me? Working With Cancer 💙 workingwithcancer.co.uk/2023/10/24/can…

People living in the most deprived local authorities in England are nearly one and a half times more likely to experience economic inactivity and are twice as likely to be in poor health than those in the least deprived authorities.

We are delighted to welcome six new members to the Social Security Advisory Committee: Les Allamby, Rachel Chiu, Daphne Hall, Stephen Hardy, Jacob Meagher and Suzy Walton.

gov.uk/government/new…

Just resharing in case anyone is feeling 'New Year, New me, New PhD'.

Funding opportunity specifically for a disabled person interested in undertaking a PhD on accessible transport design, policy, or practice.

Let me know if you're interested 😊

Thanks - it was fun, we had a great team

Thanks for the comments about #assisteddying .

Some clearly shocked mental disorder is within scope of law elsewhere. People whose suicides we try to prevent here.

Worth reading Dr Scott Kim, psychiatrist/philosopher I shared a platform with this year.

theglobeandmail.com/amp/opinion/ar…

Why I believe Dame Esther Rantzen is wrong on assisted dying - my Daily Mail column calling for society to embrace deeper questions over valued lives and decent deaths in a genuinely humane society mol.im/a/12891431

add.org.uk/unlocking-chan… - a great campaign to put power and decisions over what gets funded in the hands of disabled people

Read their full story here->add.org.uk/yumna-jamila-p….
Donate here-->add.org.uk/unlocking-chan… to support disability justice and give an opportunity for leadership among persons with disabilities. #UnlockingChange #DisabilityJustice

“Giving us the power to decide what projects to implement and how, gives us the chance to address the actual problems that persons with disabilities face because we are the ones being affected. Yumna, Jamila, and Fakihat, Disability Justice Advocates.

Thanks to everyone who came and enjoyed Geoffs great talk about his Blue Plaque campaigns celebrating local people and events!
His next walk & talk is a Magical Musical Mystery Tour around Tooting on Fri 15 Dec