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Gemma Per-Bo
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Disability Advocate and Facilitator in London
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Remember GRENFELL 8 years ago . Residents still in temporary accommodation AND no one has been charged for 72 deaths yet. Meet us at The Methodist church. Please arrive near to 530.
📅 Saturday 14 June
🕕 6PM
📍 Notting Hill Methodist Church, W11 4AH
🟩 Wear green #London #UK #accessibility #disability
Top: Green text on white background Center: A person with long hair on a wheelchair, on their right another person with a hijab, sunglasses and an assistant dog, on the other side of the wheelchair user a black person with beard and prescription glasses. Bottom: Green text Background: people from different walks of life.
June 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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ACCESS COHORT HACKNEY online event 23.06.25
12 PM to 2PM with breaks. Providing BSL interpreters and Captions. Supported by Inclusion London #Hackney #London #Accessibility
#Disability
#Community
Purple background. White text surrounded by icons representing the top half of a human being in different colors. At the top there's the logo for Access Cohort Hackney and at the bottom there's the logo of Inclusion London, ACCESS COHORT HACKNEY is a group of Disabled residents and allies committed to ensuring accessibility, inclusion, and equality in our borough. We are reaching out to formally introduce ourselves and to express our collective concern regarding the need for consistent implementation of reasonable adjustments for Disabled people across Hackney Council services. Under the Equality Act 2010, public bodies like local councils have a legal duty to anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments to ensure Disabled people are not put at a disadvantage. However, we have found that requests for basic adjustments, such as receiving letters in large print, accessible formats, or alternative communication methods, are often overlooked or inconsistently applied. We’d love you to join us online to talk about the barriers you experience when accessing council services in Hackney. We will meet with Deaf and Disabled People’s Organizations (DDPO) in Hackney, allies and council councillors on Monday 23rd of June 2025 from 12PM to 2PM with breaks. To join the event, please register attendance on the following link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rMtim-XLR2i2AYVCMWcaIg At this online event we want to initiate a conversation about accessibility between residents and Hackney council services. 1. Ensure a clear and consistent system is in place for Disabled residents to request and receive reasonable adjustments. 2. Implement a flagging system across all departments to make sure that once an adjustment is requested, it is remembered and respected in future communications. 3. Train all front-line staff and officers on the rights of Disabled people and the council’s duties under the Equality Act, based in the Social Model of Disability by Inclusion London. 4. Engage with Access Cohort Hackney and local Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) to co-produce accessible policies and practices. We look forward to meeting you!
June 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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'If you are disabled how can you dance?' Reading The Anti-Ableist Manifesto by Tiffany Yu, may encourage you to become a disability ally and acknowledge integrated ableism #ableism #ableist #anti-ableism #anti-ableist #disability #accessibility
#inclusive #inclusion
The picture is the front cover of the book in different tones of orange and the book title is repeated throughout the cover as in a background layer behind the title in dark orange. Title in white, sub title in dark red. Text on cover : 'The Anti-Ableist Manifesto Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability - Inclusive World' by Tiffany Yu, Founder of Diversability.
December 19, 2024 at 11:52 AM