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SDN’s is seeking members to contribute to the blog. If you have a burning issue or you want to share something with other members please contact us.
Wheel’s Wonderings contributor is written Ian Pugh a disabled teenager living In Shrewsbury.
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As a keen runner I like to start each New Year with a plan of the races I hope to enter in the next twelve months. I very much wanted to try and run two marathons this year. This is something I have never done before, not really being a marathon runner – I have [...]
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On the 26 March SDN had its first fund raising pub quiz at the Crown in Abbey Forgate, Shrewsbury – a big thanks to the landlord and landlady for their generosity and support in hosting and supplying prizes! The weather may have reduced numbers so the Deaf team form Shrewsbury Deaf club ended up dividing [...]
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Shropshire Together are inviting all members of the disability network to get involved in live discussions on the online Health and Wellbeing Stakeholder Alliance. The online health and wellbeing stakeholder alliance is an exciting and new way of engaging, providing discussion that regularly feeds into the health and wellbeing board. The focus will be OUTCOME [...]
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SDN are delighted to announce one of our members Vic Davies is putting on his running shoes to raise funds for us. At a recent fund-raising sub group meeting it was suggested we get someone to run a marathon for us. It was agreed that we ask for volunteers via Social Media site twitter & [...]
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“National Volunteer Week is about inspiring, recognising and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage in their communities. It’s about demonstrating to the nation that by working together, we have the fortitude to meet our challenges and accomplish our goals” This statement applies to us at SDN as much as to every volunteer organisation. Shropshire [...]
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We recently established a team in Shropshire in June 2012 after noticing there is a severe lack of high quality sporting options for disabled athletes. There are a few disabled sports clubs about in the West Midland region but none that were solely into competitive competition. We approached Shropshire Warriors as they are a large [...]
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I’m Sue, I live in Halifax & my 5 year old grandson is on the autistic spectrum… Once we realised where he was living his life, like all other parents and grandparents I researched extensively and discovered that food can be the bain of a lot of problems… in that autism can also be made [...]
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The BBC reports that Welfare secretary Iain Duncan Smith has instructed officials to “look again” at how the “bedroom tax” will affect disabled people. Read the original story here. Widely publicised plans informed us that social housing tenants’ benefits will reduce if a home has one or more spare bedrooms. Thanks to a number of charities giving [...]
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We have set up an e petition regarding respiratory disease and asthma sufferers. This is non-political in the sense that it is not party political, and would benefit practically everyone. We have been going since May 2012, and are well inside the top 10% of current e petitions. This is for a cause that is [...]
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Our latest blog post is by Peter Hopkins who won Shropshire’s “Pride of Shropshire Carers Award in 2011 and has a strong interest in Aspergers while being well aware of the shortcomings on the WCA process. My name is Peter Hopkins and my main area of interest is Autism. On 17th January, over a few [...]
