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📷 NEW: Our Job Club is now HYBRID – join us in person or online!
Looking for work? Starting a business? Need help with your CV?
📷 Tuesday 1 September, 4–6pm
📷 At Mary Lloyd Centre, 329 Queensbridge Rd, London E8 3LA
📷 Or via Zoom
📷 Contact [email protected]
🍂The East London Recovery College Autumn 2026 Prospectus is out📚
The College empowers people experiencing emotional, physical and mental health challenges,and those supporting them.
Open to adults who in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or the City.
📖 elft.nhs.uk/sites/default/fi…
Reminder - the Community Transport Waltham Forest project is looking for participants for its ride-along phase.
Particularly those who experience challenges when travelling and experience difficulties getting around their local areas.
The form is here: forms.gle/2Fjrfhspce691sAB9
So many great stories to read from the archives of Disability Horizons -from an interview with disabled BBC weather presenter Lucy Martin in 2018 to a feature on Frida Kahlo and pushing boundaries.
Visit disabilityhorizons.com/2015/… for more on Frida Kahlo.
@DHorizons
More on US activist Judy Heumann - this 2020 documentary - CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION - on Netflix and YouTube is terrific.
1970s footage was shot at Camp Jened, a summer camp in the US for teens with disabilities.
judithheumann.com/cripcamp/ and youtube.com/watch?v=OFS8Spwi…
Choice hosted a Hate Crime Awareness Day on Friday 16 October.
Felicia Tay, our Disability Hate Crime Advocate spoke as did Councillor Gemma Bo Per. Thanks to Hackney Council and our Community Alliance to Combat Hate (CATCH) partners.
Lets keep working to tackle hate!
The London V&A's Design And Disability exhibition has moved to V&A Dundee in Scotland where it is garnering fresh praise.
For more visit: list.co.uk/news/may-rosentha…
Photo: Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye
Haringey, Hackney and Islington are marking National Hate Crime Awareness Week on Thursday October 15 outside Finsbury Park station from 3pm to 6pm.
#hackneycouncil #haringeycouncil #islingtoncouncil @MPSHackney
@metcc @MPSIslington @MPSHaringey
Photo: Mikael Blomkvist
Choice in Hackney retweeted
Great opportunities from a disabled-led organisation in Harrow. Our friends at @HarrowHAD are recruiting, find out more below👇
📢 WE’RE HIRING!
Are you a Disabled person passionate about creating opportunities for other Disabled people?
💼 Employment Coach
💼 Advocacy & Welfare Benefits Coach
Both roles: £29,120 p/a (pro rata).
📩 [email protected]
ALT Job advertisement for an Employment Coach and Advocacy and Welfare Benefits Coach at HAD. Includes contact email for Angela at [email protected].
Being Heumann - the story of disability rights activist Judy Heumann leading a group of at least 100 activists into occupying a Federal State Building in the US in 1977
digitalspy.com/movies/traile…
Out on 6 November in cinemas and on Apple TV on 13 November
Choice in Hackney retweeted
Blind and partially sighted people across the UK are being invited to share their experiences of accessing food packaging as part of a new survey designed to strengthen the case for mandatory braille food labelling. Read more here: rarerevolutionmagazine.com/n…
@SightScotland
@SightScotVets
@DisabilityEqua3
#Braille #SightScotland #Accessibility #BrailleFoodLabelling
Choice in Hackney retweeted
Hire Disability is a new recruitment platform to match disabled job seekers with businesses looking for staff.
You can sign up to be part of the Hire Disability community. They’d love to hear from you about what you want from an accessible recruitment platform as it is built. You’ll also be informed as soon as it goes live and be the first to start being matched for jobs. #HireDisability #InclusiveHiring #DisabilityEmployment #AccessibleJobs #DisabilityInclusion #JobSeekersWithDisabilities #InclusiveWorkplace #DisabilityRecruitment #EqualOpportunity #Haringey
Visit: hire-disability.com/ #WorkplaceAccessibility
ALT Young woman demonstrating British Sign Language numbers in a video introducing Hire Disability platform. www.hire-disability.com. Hire Disability is a new recruitment platform to match disabled job seekers with businesses looking for staff.
We share the Guardian's marking of the life of the actor RJ Mitte who died aged 34. We knew him best from his role as Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad.
Visit: theguardian.com/tv-and-radio… and bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmn0…
Photo: David Levene/The Guardian
During National Hate Crime Awareness week, join us on 16 Oct at the Marie Lloyd Centre, E8 3LA in person or online (link on flyer).
How to report hate crime: if in danger, call 999.
If not call 101/ fill in report-it.org.uk
What are hate crimes? cps.gov.uk/types-crime/hate-…
Choice is happy to share this Autism Central info - national peer education programme for families and support networks in England.
Education, coaching, connection, one-to-one support and group learning.
NHS funded/free to access: shorturl.at/rrz1Z
#nhsenglandldn
National Hate Crime Awareness Week runs from 10 to 17th October
JOIN US for Joint Community Outreach on Friday 16 October
Marie Lloyd Center, 10-2pm, 329 Queensbridge Road, London E8 3LA
There are events across the week in Hackney - see flyer
(Pic: Liam Edwards/Unsplash)
Choice in Hackney retweeted
The home secretary has been asked why she is delaying the implementation of a “long overdue reform” that would take an “important step” towards equality for disabled victims of hate crime.
#DisabilityHateCrime
disabilitynewsservice.com/ho…
A thought-provoking piece by John Harris in The Guardian
'Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it?'
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Choice in Hackney retweeted
A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government against using the Timms Review to cut disabled people’s access to personal independence payment, which it said would only increase pressure on other services.
#PIP #DWP #TimmsReview
disabilitynewsservice.com/cu…
Thanks to @EnableMagazine for highlighting this issue and also reminding us to mark October as ADHD Awareness Month
This October is ADHD Awareness Month.
ADHD – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – is everywhere... Or so it seems. But the neurodivergent condition, which affects 3 to 4% of adults and around 5% of children and young people, has been chronically underdiagnosed.
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ALT An abstract graphic of a person's head with colourful squiggly lines shown over it, meant to convey feelings of anxiety, ADHD, obsessive thoughts etc.
So what would make the difference? A different system? A different approach?
#DWP
#Assessments
The type of assessment you have for PIP or the WCA makes little material difference to the outcome, according to a trial involving over 350,000 randomly assigned assessments covering face-to-face, telephone and video.
benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/f…