You know it gets tougher to write new, innovative, non-repetitive and funky blogs. I guess when you have a routine of work, and (unfortunately) cannot travel every week, this is unavoidable. On the flip side, with random events, news articles and the variety we have in the world; the task is not impossible either. So… Continue Reading
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Sunnier Days launches 1st Online Disability Seminar with JTSMA
Hi readers. Another week has passed already. I am keen to tell you about a new project I am working on for Sunnier Days (my social enterprise). Therefore I will share Thursday nights debauchery and this weekends fun in a separate blog over the next couple of days on my site. Sunnier Days is the… Continue Reading
Direct Payment care and Guidance
I am sat writing this blog in my old skool wheelchair that has dead batteries and not offering me the best of comfort! I have taken a days annual leave, knowing the weekend was going to be tiring in a debauched kind of way. More to come. So in knowing I would sleep most of… Continue Reading
Background info to BBC interview
This morning, thanks to the lovely Amisha who works tirelessly with the great Scope press team, I was on BBC breakfast. As you know my day job is fundraising, but to be given the chance to speak up on disability issues to 5 million viewers and mention Scope while there was awesome. I jumped at… Continue Reading
ILF update
I came across the below prose whereby a question was asked by Baroness Wilkins on the ILF closure. What are your thoughts? To ask Her Majesty’s Government what factors were considered in concluding that the Independent Living Fund is financially unsustainable; what alternatives have been explored; and whether the funding that is freed up by the… Continue Reading
Olympics seeking wheelchair users
My plan was to do a little video following xmas, and prior to the new year. Having drank lots of vodka xmas eve in the infamous http://www.musicboxstives.co.uk/ and eaten so much food since, I am not feeling tip top today. The video shall still be done, just not now 🙂 The xmas period was lovely… Continue Reading
How the ILF closure will effect real people
As always my life has been fast paced and on the tiring side. I am glad to say despite winter and general work tiredness, I am feeling good and looking forward to xmas. Due to things being busy, this blog on the recent Independent Living Fund (ILF) proposals is not the heavily researched or laid… Continue Reading