LinkUpClub

Campaigning Icons

04/03/2010
With Project Icons our aim is to promote disability awareness by reproducing iconic images. It was great fun doing this and more images will be added soon. read more »

Making a Donation to Link Up

29/01/2010
Link Up have registered with Justgiving to make it easier for our supporters to donate or raise money online. If you wish to make a donation, please click on the button below.

Fight For The Right To Play Sport

29/01/2010

For 8 years we have had a block booking on a Tuesday morning at the Northgate Arena Leisure Centre (photo right) for a group of people from Scope to play cricket and football. In August, however, we were told by Clive Donovan, who is the manager at the read more »

Winter Newsletter available now

28/01/2010
Click here to download our winter newsletter. Please be patient, it's packed full of loads of great stuff so it may take a couple of minutes to download. read more »

10 Pin Bowling League 2009

03/12/2009

The Lions won the championship with the very last ball on the final day of the 2009 league season. Tension was high as the two top teams played each other for the title. The Canaries looked favourites after the first five frames as two strikes from Michael Brown read more »

Project Icons

11/11/2009
More pics have been added to our 'Project icon' page. View our reproduction of famous film posters and images. we re-interpret the photos to promote disability awareness. read more »

The Morgan Foundation Sponsor Link Up.

29/10/2009
Link Up have been given £6000 by The Morgan Foundation to help with their overheads over the next 3 years. The activities Link Up do are funded by the members who take part. However we incur office and administration costs like anybody else and it has drained the clubs finances over read more »

Fantastic Support From A Wedding Party

05/10/2009
Link Up would like to give a huge thank you to all who donated to us via the wedding of of the sister of one of our members. Adam and Lucy Hemming who were married on the Wirral the 5th of September, both live in Singapore having met in London read more »

Summer Newsletter available now

05/10/2009
Click here to download our summer newsletter. We hope you enjoy! Please be patient, it's packed full of loads of great stuff so it may take a couple of minutes to download. We are interested in any feedback you might give us. read more »

Open Day 2009

03/09/2009

Our Open day took place on Thursday September 3rd at the Skills Centre in Blacon. The weather was a bit iffy and it rained at a inconvenient times, however, all in all it was another great occassion for our members and we hope all that went enjoyed themselves. A lot read more »

Dancefx - Stay up Late

17/07/2009
Dancefx aims to promote the performing arts of disabled people to the general public and to promote the arts to a disabled audience.

We organise a club night once a month. The aim is to provide a stage for local dance groups to perform and encourage our read more »

Dances With Schools

03/06/2009

danceability performed their ‘awareness dances’ for local school children, on march 31st. This is the second show targeting youngsters around 9, 10, 11 years old and we aim to repeat performances 3 to 4 times a year. Our objective is to forge links with local schools and promote read more »

Promoting Disability Awareness on Holiday

02/06/2009

Eleven Link Up members headed off to Tunisia for a weeks holiday in April. We’ve started going abroad 4 years ago with the intention of going to places, as a group, that might not be the norm for some disabled people. Certainly the reaction we get from staff and read more »

Chester is cracking up!

11/12/2008

Dear Stephen Thank you for the letter dated 9^th February with the results of the survey Carried out by the Link Up Club into the state of pavements in Chester City centre. I have written to Colin Stredder, Area Highways Manager at Cheshire County Council, Enclosing a Copy read more »

Disability Awareness For Kids

11/12/2008
On Dec 2nd over 90 school children from 2 local primary schools watched danceability and Sign Of The Times perform in the Theatre at the Skills Centre.
About 30 - 6 to 7 year olds from The Arches School watched the show in the morning along with an adult read more »

Where Do We Try It On?

07/04/2008

Only 36 out of Out 97 clothes shops have disabled changing rooms. This represents less than 40% of the clothes shops in Chester city centre. Of the 36 only 18 had handrails and 4 of the rooms were being used as storerooms.

Our Campaigns team (above) have been doing read more »

Icons at Starbucks

13/02/2008
We exhibited our Iconic photographs at starbucks in Chester city centre over the christmas and new year period. Hopefully some of the issues raised through the images will of hit home with members of the public. Some of our models dressed the part and posed for a team photo. read more »

Invitation from Antony Gormley

12/09/2007

Antony Gormley, the English sculptor famous for the Angel of the North outside Gateshead and Another Place on Crosby beach near Liverpool, invited us down to his studio in London in the autumn. This invitation comes after seeing some of the sculpture work and models we have made at the read more »

Time To Get Equal

20/06/2007

The Chester disabled people's march is one of over fifty events happening across the UK in conjunction with disability charity Scope's Time the Get Equal Week. Other findings of the survey: One in ten people in the North West said that, if they had a colleague who became disabled, they read more »

Chester Equality Training

31/05/2007

Janet Earl, Emily Fox and Karen Doyle have assisted Liz Evans and Jack Lloyd (service users) to develop packages of training. Chester Uni have signed the team up to carry out Equality training to student nurses. This pilot project has been highly successful and resulted in us now looking for read more »

Sainsburys OAKS funding

31/05/2007
OAKS is a Chester based charity set up to help build a school and a clinic in the villiage of Bo in Sierra Leone. We raised £135 and a cheque was handed over to Margaret the chair of OAKS.
The project is gong well, acording to Margaret; the roof read more »

Krash, Bang, Wallop and Human Rights

03/05/2007

On Friday 30th March 2007 Krash, Bang, Wallop, Thud and Boom travelled down to London to perform at a reception that Scope had organised. It was to celebrate the signing at the United Nations of the first International Human rights charter for disability.

We arrived at Chester Railway Station read more »

Country Parks Access Awards

10/10/2006

On the Morning of the 5th October 2006 The Access Group went to Marbury Country Park in Northwich to give out two awards to Cheshire County Council Park Rangers. They were given the awards for making the park more accessible to disabled people. They have resurfaced the paths, the surface read more »

July Access Awards

01/08/2006
Two weeks ago on Thursday a group of us from the access group gave out awards to shops in town. We gave awards to Ladbrooks, River Island, Gap and George for promoting good disabled access. Dee 106.3 Radio Station www.dee1063.com was there, they interviewed Mike Flood from Scope and some read more »

Community Equipment 4 Sierra Leone

21/07/2006
The Community Equipment Service in Bromborough have donated truck loads of disability aids and equipment for the Clinic at Bo in Sierra Leone, including, bags of walking sticks, Rollators, trolleys, wheelchairs into vans and is in storage awaiting transportation out to Sierra Leone. Barry Parsons of CES said everyone there read more »

Tribute to Antony Gormley

19/05/2006
Our art and campaign teams visited Antony Gormleys “Another Place” exhibit on Crosby beach on Mesrseyside. Gorm our own model based on Gormleys work went along with us to meet the relatives and you can see the photos throughout this publication.

Another Place is a massive installation read more »

Access Appraisals and Awards

15/05/2006
From October 2004 Companies and organisations that provide services to the public will be required by the Disability Discrimination Act to ensure that those services are reasonably accessible to disabled people. In many cases the most sensible way of doing so will be to ensure that the building within which read more »

Fires, frames and wheelchairs

15/05/2006
One of our members Gary Fisher was at the North Wales Theatre with Link Up when the fire alarm went off. Gary could not evacuate with the masses as his walking frame had been stored away. Gary felt disempowered and a sense of panic because the staff had removed his read more »