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Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders
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Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]

Shared space schemes must be halted, mayor’s commissioner told

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Transport

Shared space schemes must be halted, mayor’s commissioner told
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A disabled campaigner has told London’s walking and cycling commissioner that all shared space street developments should be halted because they are too dangerous for disabled and older people. Dr Tom Pey (pictured, second from left), chief executive of the Royal […]

Disabled people ‘must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport’

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Transport

Disabled people ‘must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport’
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Disabled people must keep fighting for their right to travel on public transport, and should “challenge the status quo”, an accessible transport campaigner has told a conference. Alan Benson, chair of the user-led, pan-London organisation Transport for All, told Transport for […]

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