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time to get equal parade and street dancing

17/06/2008

We were on the march again this year playing our part in Scope's "Time To Get Equal Week' , a seven celebration that has seen campaigning and awareness-raising events taking place up and down the country. Over 50 of us paraded and banged drums up and down the town centre making our way read more »

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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 read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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Wyn and the Prime Ministers Wife

12/09/2007

Link Up member Win Omerwood was commissioned by Scope to paint a picture of Number 10 Downing Street to be presented to Cherie Blair as a thank you for all the support she has given Scope over the last ten years. The painting was presented to Cherie Blair at a read more »

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WOMAD 2007 (or was it WOMUD?)

26/07/2007

I met up with the others at Keele service station at 1.30pm. When we arrived at Charlton park we had to queue for about four hours just to park the vans and then had to erect the tents up in the dark. It was about 2.30am when we read more »

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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 »

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Campaigning Icons

04/06/2007
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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »