After benefitting from the GoFundMe Campaign to the tune of £6,130 and the kindness of strangers, friends and family, I have received a total of £5,820.26. The rest of the money has been taken by GoFundMe. This is not a criticism of the for-profit business, but just serves to explain my calculations below, in a […]
I am totally humbled by the generosity of friends and strangers who have contributed towards my short-break in Florida. The GoFundMe page is currently at £5,825 and I am so pleased to prove Margaret Thatcher wrong when she said that there is no such thing as society. There clearly is, as I have been supported
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I have copied and pasted the following article from the BBC News website, as it highlights an important issue facing disabled people across Wales. You can access the original article by clicking here. I am facing similar challenges, as even though I have been lucky enough to access a wheelchair through the NHS, I feel
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The following blog has been written and published by John Pring on the excellent Disability News Service website. The amount of support that I have received is overwhelming and I really appreciate all the solidarity shown. I have just been contacted by John Pring who said that the BBC are now interested in covering the
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I am putting my weight of support behind Jeremy Miles in the Welsh Labour leadership election. In a statement confirming his leadership bid, Mr Miles said: “If I think back to when I was growing up, wondering about my place in the world as a young gay man from a working-class family in Pontarddulais,
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I am writing the following blog in a very careful manner. I just want to relay the facts and the injustice, as I see it, being served to me by the Adult Social Care department at Wrexham County Borough Council (WCBC). In 2022, I expressed an interest in taking a short break to Florida. This
This time of year is always exciting as we are on the precipice of a fresh new year bursting with new opportunities to rectify the wrongs of the previous 12 months. It is always important to use the no man’s land that exists between Xmas and New Year to plan ahead while the majority of
Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the League Division Three match against Dagenham & Redbridge at Victoria Road on 18/12/07. Wrexham lost the game 3-0. Our first-ever League meeting with Dagenham
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Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the League Two match against Boston United at the Racecourse on 05/05/07. Wrexham won the game 3-1. A staggering 12,374 fans – the biggest Racecourse
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Over the coming weeks, I will be adding a match programme for each of the games that I have focused on in Dirty Old Town. This is the programme from the League Two match against Cheltenham Town at the Racecourse on 10/09/05. Wrexham won the game 2-0. Wrexham had to postpone the previous match against
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