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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People
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Disabled People's Organisation (100% exec & staff are disabled people working from Social Model of Disability & Disability Justice)
#RightsNotCharity
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Disability History Month Celebration - JOY!
By Disabled People's Archive & North West Film Archive

Manchester Central Library
Dec 4 from 12pm to 4pm GMT
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Disability History Month Celebration - JOY!
The Disabled People's Archive (DPA) and North West Film Archive (NWFA) are hosting a free event to celebrate the DPA's new project & UKDHM.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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JOB!
PA to GMCDP Staff Member, closing date: 26 Nov
Hours: 28 hours per week, including planned evenings and weekends
Location: Hybrid (home-based, travel within Manchester)
Salary: £16 per hour; (£29,000 per annum FTE) - funded by Access to Work.
Contract: until March 2026 in the first instance.
Jobs | Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People
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November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Celebrate International Day of Disabled People with GMCDP on Wednesday 03 December 2025
For more information and to book your free place:
👉 iddpsocial.eventbrite.co.uk

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November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Disabled people have warned for years that welfare reform pushes us deeper into poverty and exclusion.

Now the UN has called out the UK again. It's time for rights, dignity, and justice at home.

We write with @justfairuk.bsky.social in the Big Issue
Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations
United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.
www.bigissue.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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💼 We’re hiring! Part-time Operational Manager at GMCDP.
Join us to keep our operations running smoothly & support disabled people’s rights.
📍 Remote (flexible hours)
💰 £21,600 pro rata (£36k FTE)
⏳ Apply by 27 Oct
🔗 gmcdp.com/jobs
#GMCDP #Hiring #DisabilityRights #Operations
October 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Benefit Tips Social!
Wednesday, October 15・6:00pm
Online and In Person at Proud Trust
Includes Pizza and creative social session!
Book Now
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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With support from The National Archives, we’re also recruiting an Archive Catalogue Project Worker (staff).
All posts run until April 2027.
👉 gmcdp.com/jobs (2/2)
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September 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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We’re recruiting for 4 roles on our Disabled People’s Archive 🎉
Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (made possible by National Lottery players) we’re looking for an Archive Project Assistant (staff), plus freelance Oral Historian & Evaluator. (1/2)
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September 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Don't fight the DWP alone, do it with friends!
Benefits Tips Social
Wed July 16・6:00pm
The Proud Trust
49-51 Sidney St M1 7HB
Join us for our hybrid Benefits Tips Social - an evening of disability-related Benefits tips and peer support.
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Benefits Tips Social
Join us for our hybrid Benefits Tips Social - an evening of disability-related Benefits tips and peer support.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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· the extension of financial surveillance and policing powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.

The Committee will examine the responses and all credible information during its thirty-third session, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 26 August 2025.
July 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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· the lack of a limited scrutiny because of its designation as a money bill.
· public statements by politicians and authorities portraying disabled people as fraudulent or burdens on society including debates around the Terminally Ill Adults Bill.
July 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The committee seeks answers on:
· the lack of full impact assessments.
· the impact on women, younger people, and global majority people.
· the risk of increasing poverty rate.
· the inadequacy of the public consultation.
· the lack of involvement of deaf and disabled people’s organisations.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Even after concessions and the dropping of Clause 5 our concerns remain. Please note the UN has been given a timeframe for a response which conflicts with Government plans to designate this a money bill, meaning it should not be designated as such.
July 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨

The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights.

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July 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Tell your MP to vote against the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill, it will put 50,000 disabled people into poverty.
Also ask them to support these Amendments:
Amendments 14 & 15 by Neil Duncan-Jordan MP - These crucial amendments would remove the dangerous UC cuts from the bill, leaving the bill as an uprating of UC. Amendment 2(a) by Richard Burgon MP - This would eliminate the punitive change to UC Health, which proposes a lower rate for all but those in the new serious conditions criteria group. Amendment NC10 by Nadia Whittome MP - This would ensure that there is a human rights analysis of the bill, which has been completely absent thus far. Amendment NC11 by Dr Marie Tidball MP - which would put a 12-month timeline on the ‘Timms Review’ and make it accountable to MPs by requiring a vote for any of its recommendations to be implemented. Amendment NC8 by John McDonnell - which prevents any proposal from the Timms review adversely affecting anyone’s eligibility for PIP. Amendment by Debbie Abrahams (19) - which changes the date on which the universal credit cuts start, from April 2026 to November 2026. Amendment NC4 by Stella Creasy - which calls for a duty to have due regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People in exercising any power under this Act. Amendment by Kirsty Blackman (33) - which removes the requirement that, for the severe conditions criteria, a diagnosis must have been made by a health professional providing NHS services. Amendment by Graeme Downie (17) - which allows for the severe conditions criteria to apply to claimants who have fluctuating conditions, such as Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis.
July 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Deadline to apply is rapidly approaching, Monday 7th July!
gmcdp.bsky.social Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Apr 14
GM Disabled People’s Panel launches Feeling Good! Small grants up to £5,000 to support the Mental Wellbeing of Disabled People.
Read our Report: gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/gm-mental-we...
Deadline to apply- Mon 7th July.
tinyurl.com/MHWGDP25
Poster for the grants with sunbeams and drawings of a group of diverse disabled people in a city park with a rainbow hot air ballon in the sky.
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The Universal Credit and PIP Bill and Green Paper are the wrong policy approach and harmful. The ‘concessions’ do not alter this. We ask MP’s to vote the bill down on Tuesday.
Please continue to seek ways to talk to MP’s and their staff to give them this message.
June 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Human Rights Watch: UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities -
Proposed Benefit Cuts Will Worsen Poverty and Undermine Rights
UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities
While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Refuse to be invisible! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Now is the time to make our voices heard, sharing our experiences in the EHRC Consultation which affects LGBTQ+ people.

We've created a handy guide to help plan your response, get started now and share this post.

www.lgbt.foundation/EHRC
June 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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We have also been through two UN examinations that have found the UK is committing continued grave and systemic human rights abuses of disabled people. Until we can rely on our needs and Rights being met to thrive in society, the risk from this Bill of coerced euthanasia is too great to accept.
June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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As Covid showed us, medical professionals have a low level of understanding of the realities of disabled people’s lives and we were disproportionately the greatest number of dead from the pandemic.
June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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With ongoing austerity, our Social Care, Social Security, and Healthcare systems are in perpetual crisis with unmet need increasing. Disabled People are not getting the support they need to live.
June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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GM Disabled People’s Panel is comprised of 16 organisations led by disabled people, we have a breadth of views across our organisations on Assisted Dying. However on the specific matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill we believe now is the wrong time to be supporting such legislation
June 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel (GMDPP) statement on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill:
gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2024/11/27/g...
The GM Disabled People’s Panel is comprised of 16 organisations led by disabled people, we have a breadth of views across our organisations on Assisted Dying. However on the specific matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill we believe now is the wrong time to be supporting such legislation. With ongoing austerity, our Social Care, Social Security, and Healthcare systems are in perpetual crisis with unmet need increasing. Disabled People are not getting the support they need to live. As Covid showed us, medical professionals have a low level of understanding of the realities of disabled people’s lives and we were disproportionately the greatest number of dead from the pandemic. We have also been through two United Nations examinations that have found the UK is committing continued grave and systemic human rights abuses of disabled people. Until we can rely on our needs and Rights being met to thrive in society, the risk from this Bill of coerced euthanasia is too great to accept.
June 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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First reading today after Urgent Questions And Statements at 12:30 commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/955...

PRESENTATION OF BILLS
No debate (Standing Order No. 57) Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment
Secretary Liz Kendall Bill to make provision to alter the rates...
Order Paper for 18 June 2025
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June 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM