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  • Labour Leader Visits Disability Sheffield

    04 April 2016

    We were delighted to welcome Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn to our office on March 25th during his visit to Sheffield to support Labour’s candidate, Gill Furniss, in the upcoming Hillsborough and Brightside by-election.

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  • Disability Sheffield on Personal Independence Payment budget reaction on Radio Sheffield

    18 March 2016

    Listen to yesterday’s recording of Andrew Crooks talking on BBC Radio Sheffield about what the budget announcement meant to him and other disabled people in Sheffield. Andrew was quick to highlight that the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) came on the back of some already tough measures affecting disabled people badly.

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  • Samantha's Story - An Introduction to Personal Health Budgets

    14 March 2016

    This short film, coproduced by Disability Sheffield, Sheffield Voices Learning Disability Self Advocacy Group and NHS England will help you to understand what personal health budgets are and how you might be able to start the process of getting one, if you have a learning disability.

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  • Ways You Can Support Disability Sheffield

    10 February 2016

    Disability Sheffield has gained a good reputation locally and nationally for the quality of our services and projects but we face challenging times in the year ahead. If you like what we do here’s some ways you can support our work. Whether you’re interested in volunteering at community events or have any ideas for fundraising , however unusual, different or wacky, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • 12th March is Disabled Access Day

    26 January 2016

    We’re taking part in Disabled Access Day at Kelham Island Museum and we’d love to see you there – find out about the special offers, accessible events and activities in Sheffield and elsewhere and let us know where you’re going.

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  • Let's Talk About Restraint Conference - 17 March 2016

    07 January 2016

    Disability Sheffield have teamed up with Active Independence, Sheffield City Council and individual employers and their personal assistants to coproduce new Safer Restraints Training and downloadable resources to help people talk about safer restraints. We invite you to come along to our free conference at Rotherham United Football Stadium to share learning from the project.

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  • Our AGM papers are now online

    03 December 2015

    Following our Annual General Meeting on Thursday 3 December you can now view our AGM Agenda, Minutes and Accounts on our website.

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  • Please Make a Free Donation to Disability Sheffield with Easyfundraising

    17 November 2015

    Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be making a free donation to Disability Sheffield ? There are nearly 3,000 retailers including Amazon, John Lewis, thetrainline, Aviva and Sainsbury’s, who will donate a percentage of the amount you spend to Disability Sheffield to say thank you for shopping with them. It’s really simple, and doesn’t cost you anything.

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  • Chairperson Vacancy

    22 October 2015

    We are recruiting a new Chairperson for Disability Sheffield to lead a group of ten trustees with a wide range of experience.

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  • Stand for Election as Disability Hub Representative

    21 October 2015

    The next meeting of the Disability Hub on Thursday 26 November 2015 will elect its Disability Hub Representatives .Deadline for submissions is Wednesday 18 November 5pm if you wish to apply.

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Very good presentation, brave of the speakers to tell their stories and had a very high impact - feedback from Mate/Hate Crime presentation and video session at Safeguarding Working Together Conference
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When I moved to Sheffield nearly five years ago it was my "go to" organisation. I expect it to stay that way. All the staff and volunteers seem to pull out little gems of effort that disabled people like me couldn't do without. Professionally and personally - I love em :)
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Disability Sheffield is a forward-thinking, energetic organisation doing a lot of positive work in Sheffield. I have no doubt they will continue to do so for a long time to come.
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Ruth

A fantastic presentation thought provoking and good questions from the floor around promoting this film/message to the general public not just professionals.
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