Nathan Lee Davies

Disabled Tories launch investigation into impact of ILF closure #SaveWILG

Below I have pasted an excellent article by John Pring of Disability News Service, which includes quotes from a certain Nathan Lee Davies 🙂   Disabled members of the Conservative party have launched their own investigation into the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF), following widespread concerns about its impact across the country. The […]

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Disability Wales awarded £600,000 Welsh Government funding package

Disability Wales has been awarded a funding package by Welsh Government totaling £600,000 over the next three years, which means that it is no longer at risk of closure this March as feared following the news before Christmas that it lost its core grant due to changes in Welsh Government grant making arrangements. Disability Wales

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Open letter to Debbie Abrahams – shadow minister for disabled people

Dear Ms Abrahams I am writing to you in your role as shadow minister for disabled people about the on going struggles across the UK to protect Independent Living for all. As a disabled activist I have been campaigning for the rights of disabled people to independent living in Wales.  Recently we have received promising news that we

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Groundtastic – Scots Scene – Winter 2002

Between 2002-2008 I was Scottish Correspondent for the wonderfully professional Groundtastic – The Football Grounds Magazine. I can not speak highly enough of the editors and contributors to this glossy magazine that is jam-packed with interesting information and photographic gold. I haven’t been a subscriber to the magazine since my marriage imploded in 2008 and I was

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Disabled People in Wrexham need car parking protected – Sign the petition

Please sign this petition, which has been started by the Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham (AVOW) and is designed to safeguard specific accessible parking bays for disabled people in Wrexham Town Centre. The petition text reads: A planning application has been submitted for a new town centre Police Station in a building currently used as an

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In Response: First Minister Carwyn Jones AM #SaveWILG

I received the third response to my letter to the four main political party leaders in Wales from First Minister Carwyn Jones AM of Welsh Labour. I thank him for his reply to my concerns over the future of the Welsh Independent Living Grant (WILG), which I have shared below. *** Dear Nathan I am writing in response to your e-mail of

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Wrexham Council receive better than expected settlement

A TAKEN FROM THE NEWSLETTER OF LESLEY GRIFFITHS, WELSH LABOUR AM FOR WREXHAM. EVERY TIME I TRY TO OPEN HER BLOG MY LAPTOP SOUNDS AN ALARM AND WARNS ME THAT A THREAT HAS BEEN DETECTED. SENSITIVE INTERNET SECURITY OR HAVE I MISJUDGED OUR LOCAL POLITICIAN?   Local Government settlements were announced this week and with Local Authorities braced for

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