Winter Newsletter
We have lots of news hot off the press! Please share with anyone who might be interested to know about our work with people with learning disabilities
Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024
Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024 We had a fantastic time at the Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024 in Birmingham! It was a great way to finish off our time as the current Lewisham People’s Parliament reps’ team and meet some amazing new people. The Journey We had a long but fun journey from […]
Barriers to Employment Report
New Report on Barriers to Employment We have produced a new report that looks at the barriers and solutions to people with learning disabilities and autistic people working in health and social care. How we approached the project on Barriers to Employment It was important to us that this work was led by experts by […]
Autumn Newsletter
We have lots of news hot off the press! Please share with anyone who might be interested to know about our work with people with learning disabilities
Read our People’s Parliament report on self advocacy
Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Self Advocacy – past, present and future Read our new report on self advocacy! In June 2024, we held a People’s Parliament about self advocacy. We talked about the past present and future of self advocacy. You can read the report here Or click on the picture […]
Summer Newsletter
We have lots of news hot off the press! Please share with anyone who might be interested to know about our work with people with learning disabilities
Lewisham People’s Parliament on Housing
Read our new Lewisham People’s Parliament report on housing In March we held a Lewisham People’s Parliament on housing. This is a subject we hear a lot about, particularly in our 121 advocacy services where people come to us with many housing issues. People with learning disabilities say they feel frustrated at the lack of […]
Read our new Lewisham People’s Parliament report May 2024
Read our new Lewisham People’s Parliament report on mental health In December 2023 we held a Lewisham People’s Parliament on the subject of mental health. You can read the report by clicking the picture below: This is the third time we have held a People’s Parliament on mental health. We find that people with learning […]
Spring Newsletter
Read our latest News Dear Friends and Supporters, Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter. Spring is in the air and we are pleased to announce some new growth at Lewisham Speaking Up! First, we welcome Ellie Spirrett to the team as our new Self-Advocacy Coordinator. Ellie will be taking over lots of our self-advocacy […]
Read our latest People’s Parliament report! (January 2024)
Read our latest People’s Parliament report! In October 2023 we met to talk about race inequality. You can now read our latest People’s Parliament report. Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Race Equality October 2023 This was the first time we had a discussion about race inequality with a wider group of people with […]
