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Free Digital Skills Course
17 April 2024
Are you interested in improving your day-to-day digital skills? Does being online overwhelm you? CYF are running a free course to boost your online skills and confidence, taking you at your own pace during May .
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NAIDEX Exhibition a Hit with Sara
17 April 2024
One of our new volunteers at Disability Sheffield , Sara Ali, has written a blog for us about the 50th Naidex (National Accessibility Inclusion and Disability Expo) event she attended, which took place over two days (March 20th-21st) at the Birmingham NEC.
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Local Elections Rule Changes and Accessibility
17 April 2024
With local election imminent and a general election sometime this year we want to remind people there are more accessibility aids available and you can request other adjustments. You also need to know about a rule change for submitting postal votes at polling stations and council buildings.
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Enter our Competition to Design STS a New Logo!
12 April 2024
Sheffield Travel Support has joined Disability Sheffield, and they need a logo! Enter our logo competition for a chance to win a voucher worth £75 – 1st place, £50 – 2nd place or £25 – 3rd place. The closing date to get your design to us is Monday the 6th of May, so get drawing!
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Sheffield Connect circular bus service relaunched
12 April 2024
The Sheffield Connect bus service relaunched on Monday the 8th of April. New vehicles all electric (standard buses), two routes, and longer operating hours and now completely free for everyone.
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Meet Our Community Engagement Co-ordinator
11 April 2024
Hello. My name is Paul Ntulila, and I’m thrilled to be the Community Engagement Coordinator at Disability Sheffield. My goal is to create a strong, thriving community of disabled people in Sheffield who can work with us to influence policies and decisions or even just meet up for a coffee and a chat. I recently travelled to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland to advocate for disabled people’s rights.
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Sheffield Life, Loss and Death Festival
11 April 2024
Death is part of life. so let’s talk about it during this festival across Sheffield and online during May. Events include music, activities in nature, training, creative workshops, writing, open mic sessions, authors panel, Death Cafes, exhibitions and discussion groups.
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My Employment Plan
04 April 2024
This week marks the launch of “My Employment Plan”, a tool coproduced by people with lived experience and employment organisations across South Yorkshire. The plan helps a person and their employer talk about and agree on things that might help them both in the workplace, sometimes called ‘reasonable adjustments’.
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Sheffield Travel Support Joins Disability Sheffield
03 April 2024
Sheffield Travel Support (STS) has joined Disability Sheffield! STS is a paid for service that provides travel support to hundreds of people with learning disabilities each week. Regular customers have the same regular Travel Support Workers, helping them to build trusted relationships and to understand your needs and preferences better.
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Temporary loss of step free access to Dore Railway Station
22 March 2024
Rail passengers who need step free access at Dore and Totley Railway station are urged to book passenger assistance if travelling to or from the station during the period from the 25th March to 4th April 2024. This is because the new lifts will not be fully working for some, or all of this period.
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