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Summer Newsletter ’25

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

People’s Parliament report on Money and Benefits

Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Money and Benefits Read our new people’s parliament report on Money and Benefits! In March 2025, we held a People’s Parliament about money and benefits. We talked about benefits, the cost of living and scams.   You can read the report here or click on the picture […]

People’s parliament report on Safer Streets

Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Safer Streets Read our new people’s parliament report on Safer Streets! In December 2024, we held a People’s Parliament about safer streets. We talked about hate crime, street disorder, safer places schemes and riots. You can read the report here Or click on the picture of the […]

Question Time with Lewisham MPs 2025

Lewisham MPs Listen to People with learning disabilities On Friday 31st January, we hosted a Question Time at the Catford Civic Suite for people with learning disabilities. One of our People’s Parliament reps suggested that we hold this event as part of our self advocacy work. They said it would be a great chance for […]

Read our People’s Parliament report on the Elections

  Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on our Elections In September 2024, we held a People’s Parliament where we elected a new set of People’s Parliament reps. You can read the report here Or click on the picture of the report     36 people with a learning disability came to vote for […]

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

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

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

Autumn Newsletter

Read our latest news update Dear Friends and Supporters, Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter. By the time you are reading this, we will have returned from the Positive Voices self-advocacy conference in Birmingham. This is the second year we have been involved in planning and being part of this new conference, organised and […]

Summer Newsletter

Dear Friends and Supporters, I’m writing this during Learning Disability Week 2023 and thinking about the theme this year, which is ‘myth busting’. I’m lucky to work closely with some amazing people with learning disabilities who are great self-advocates, artists, workers, parents and much more. We spend a lot of time fighting for the rights […]

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