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Funding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’

By John Pring on 21st July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Funding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’
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Organisations that represent disabled people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities face blatant and widespread discrimination at the hands of local and national government, according to a leading campaigner. Julie Jaye Charles (pictured), chief executive of Equalities National Council (ENC), […]

Award-winning campaigner to set up food bank just for disabled people

By John Pring on 22nd May 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Award-winning campaigner to set up food bank just for disabled people
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A user-led organisation is to set up a food bank solely for disabled people in east London, after being overwhelmed by requests for help in the wake of five years of government “austerity”. Julie Jaye Charles, chief executive of Equalities National […]

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