by The Disability Union | Thursday, 3 March, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Disability Union x Manor Farm The community team has been forming relationships and liaising with businesses and organisations to promote and raise awareness of accessibility within our communities. We have been in talks with our local farm in Southampton...
by Dan White | Thursday, 2 December, 2021 | Uncategorized
Imagine what is like to flee poverty, oppression, persecution. Imagine what it’s like to be caught up in a war not of your creating, watching children burn, and seeing hearts breaking. Think about witnessing all you hold dear reduced to ash while batons are wielded,...
by Dan White | Thursday, 25 November, 2021 | Uncategorized
Carers’ rights day is here once again and the irony of such a day existing is not lost upon the millions of carers both low and unpaid up and down the country. Contrary to what many carers charities would have us believe, hardly anyone in the care community knows that...
by Dan White | Wednesday, 17 November, 2021 | Uncategorized
We live in a media society where we are so desensitized to violence, gore and so much more that it would take a great deal to appall and offend anyone, especially a well socialised teenager like my daughter. It’s not often that I see her wheel out of the lounge in...
by Dan White | Wednesday, 10 November, 2021 | Uncategorized
For a world so obviously dismissive of disability, it is seemingly perplexing that it is subconsciously intent on growing our community numbers. The number of disabled people worldwide currently stands at one billion, and according to the World Report on Disability,...
by Dan White | Tuesday, 2 November, 2021 | Uncategorized
My daughter is 15, a wheelchair user, and a fierce Disability rights campaigner. I proudly stood next to her as we took part in the extinction rebellion protests in London. She was asked by many bystanders why did she feel the need to campaign on something like...
