It is one month to do the day that I saw Arcade Fire at Hyde Park and had left the offices of Scope as an employee for the last time. You may remember my reasons for going self employed were career, leisure and health related. This post will update you on how things are fairing… Continue Reading
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Campaigning for the fist bump
We are all aware of the high five http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five and fist bump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_bump as greetings right!? Without regurgitating the Wikipedia explanations, these two types of informal greetings are a part of our everyday lives. Influenced by sporting celebrities and embraced by the masses, they have often replaced the handshake in our everyday, social interactions. This… Continue Reading
IOF convention and kayak paddles
Since my quick concoction of a video blog yesterday it has been a whirlwind 2 days and border line strange at 16.00 yesterday afternoon (I will explain the kayaking photo shoot later). I just made the IOF PR briefing for 8.30am. I had foreseen my first day in self employment along the lines of wake… Continue Reading
Independence Day
Welcome to a new chapter of my life! It is hardly a shocker to hear as I have been banging on about this for a few weeks. However, today is officially Independence Day! The 4th of July 2011 is the day I begin working full time on changing the world for disabled people and their… Continue Reading
Summer Series – Swimming
During my time as Hackney council’s Personalisation ambassador I delivered talks about my social care package. It was to show disabled people, professionals and local councillors in the borough the merits and difficulties of Direct Payments and Personal Budgets. I laid out the assessment process, defining your needs, creating outcomes, using the money and other… Continue Reading
Summer Series – Guide to festivals
In the latest instalment of my summer series, I am discussing how to attend summer festivals when considering additional needs, such as my own. During another difficult winter I decided I may not go one better than flying a plane this summer (although leaving my day job to start a business feels like a sky… Continue Reading
PAY US LESS? GET OUT OF TOWN
Richard is one my best mates. We attended Coventry university together. Had many hilarious and intellectual conversations throughout. Rich is a political genius and I wanted him to write this piece around the recent media coverage of disabled people. I hope you find it interesting, helpful and wanting to question the status quo. Thanks for… Continue Reading
Serendipity
Definition: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way My interpretation: If you want something – do it. Despite the risks amazing things will occur I have just spent an amazing weekend with my good friends from ‘Misfit Inc’ (http://thelacproject.com/) – AJ and Melissa Leon. Almost 2 years ago… Continue Reading