Author: Mark Watts
EHRC Housing Inquiry Launched
EHRC Housing Inquiry Launched The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have launched their Inquiry into housing for disabled people. The full Housing Inquiry report can be downloaded from the EHRC website through the following link: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/housing-and-disabled-people-britain%E2%80%99s-hidden-crisis In addition, our very own June Craven was interviewed regarding her housing situation.
DDRG Design Input a Winner at Architects Journal Awards
DDRG Design Input a Winner at Architects Journal Awards Simpson Haugh architects have won an award for Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop in the category “Infrastructure Project of the Year”. The national awards are presented by the Architects Journal and “celebrate and reward design excellence in UK architecture”. Dave Green from Simpson Haugh architects valued the input from DDRG [Continue reading…]
Disabled People’s Identity and Pride Virtual Workshop
Disabled People’s Identity and Pride Virtual Workshop We will be holding a virtual workshop on the topic of disabled people’s identity and pride at Manchester Histories Digifest 2020 on Saturday 5th September at 10am – 11am. Breakthrough was founded by disabled people with a very strong identity, rooted in the Social Model of Disability – [Continue reading…]
Keep up to date with the latest information on Coronavirus
Keep up to date with the latest information on Coronavirus Please contact us if you need to. This page will be added to regularly. Remember we are still here and can be contacted by phone, text, email and through the website. We are sharing the latest information on when and where we have been asked [Continue reading…]
Greater Manchester Coronavirus information for all Greater Manchester boroughs
Greater Manchester Coronavirus information for all Greater Manchester boroughs Here is an easy and in one place list of phone numbers, and information for disabled people living in all the Greater Manchester boroughs. Breakthrough is now operating a text service covering all the Community Hubs, which will be answered within one working day. Text number: 07860022876. [Continue reading…]
A day in the worklife of a Community Connector during a Pandemic
A day in the worklife of a Community Connector during a Pandemic I’m waiting for the tram in the surprising September sunshine. The black facemask Breakthrough has supplied is warm. I am travelling to meet a Connectee, who has just gone back to school. I’ve tried to speak to him before on WhatsApp but he [Continue reading…]
Breaking Through During an Outbreak
Breaking Through During an Outbreak Same storm The current time feels unpredictable, overwhelming, uncertain and chaotic as we are thrown into to a “new normal”, changing how we live, work and play, day by day. Some of us now feel lonely, confused, anxious, bored, frustrated and helpless…. sharing a desire for choice and control, belonging and [Continue reading…]
My Personal Experience of Lockdown
My Personal Experience of Lockdown First of all let me say that this blog is based on my own personal experience and that won’t be the same as every other disabled person’s experience, just as a non-disabled person’s experience is not the same as another’s. So of course going to talk about lockdown, because that [Continue reading…]
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Blogs and opinions “Vulnerable People” One of our Trustees, Vivienne, touches on the increased use of the term “Vulnerable People” and how Breakthrough would challenge this during the Covid-19 crisis. My Personal Experience of Lockdown One of our Community Connectors, June, writes about her own personal experience surrounding lockdown and how she has kept positive [Continue reading…]
“Vulnerable People”
“Vulnerable People” As a disabled person, I was disappointed to miss the London School of Economics (LSE) online event “Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Disability Policy”. Streamed on Facebook, and starring an impressive list of speakers (Liz Sayce, Baroness Jane Campbell Clenton Farquharson and Neil Crowther), but was able to watch it as a BSL [Continue reading…]