I have just been cheered up no end by the petitions committee speaking about Save WILG and paying tribute to a certain campaigner. I was almost in tears. Janet Finch-Saunders did us proud and she wearing a badge of ours. She is a Welsh Conservative but she really is a Tory with a heart of gold.I would […]
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What my #SaveWILG campaign is in need of is a theme tune. I hit upon this idea while listening to Spotify in bed the other night. Frank Sinatra featured on my playlist performing his classic hit They Can’t Take That Away from Me. Without permission, I have took it upon myself to change the words to this
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Throughout the 2017/18 football season I will be contributing to the Wrexham AFC matchday programme. I will be penning a feature called Memory Match, a look back at classic Wrexham games from the past that I will share in this blog over the coming months. This is the third successive season that I have been writing the Memory Match column. Indeed, when
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The following article is from a website produced by Luke Clements who is a Professor of Law at Leeds University and a Solicitor. This is an invaluable piece of writing from Mr Clements who would certainly a good person to speak with and have as an ally for our campaign. I remember Sheila Meadows OBE
R (Luke Davey) v. Oxfordshire CC Court of Appeal 2017 #SaveWILG Read More »
I received the following email from the Welsh Assembly Petitions Committee this morning to remind me of a discussion next Tuesday about the future of WILG. This is an important step in our efforts to save the Welsh Independent Living Grant and should provide interesting viewing. Dear Petitioner Your petition will be considered at our
WILG discussed on Senedd TV #SaveWILG Read More »
Our new campaign banner arrived this morning. Very impressive work from Just Print. Thanks to Steve Gittins for his help in organising this and Vic Grout for his design work.
I have just received the following letter from Minister for Children and Social Care, Huw Irranca-Davies. I have only skim read it at the moment but I can see that it is ignoring all of our fears about the end of the three tier triangular system of support and disabled people’s rights under the UNCRPD. There
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The postcard campaign continues and spreads south. Massive thanks to Lynne and Osian, Castell Carreg Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Luke Roberson, Forester. Castell Carreg Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Lynne Parry and Phillip Thompson, Disability Officers, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire CLP and Llanelli CLP respectively and Olive Potts and Jo Potts, Disability Forum, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire CLP.
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Disability Arts Cymru have introduced me to the amazing Sophie McKeand – the gifted writer, poet, performer who is the current Young People’s Laureate Wales April 2016 – 2018, winner of the Out Spoken award for Innovation in Poetry 2015 and longlisted for the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 2014. Writing about the incredible collection of
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What my #SaveWILG campaign is in need of is a theme tune. I hit upon this idea while listening to Spotify in bed the other night. Andy Williams was featured in this addition from 1985 and was performing his classic hit Can’t Get Use To Losing You. Without permission, I have took it upon myself to change
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