Keeping York up-to-date with disability activism, especially York Disability Week. York Disability Week 2026 will run from 28th November to 5th December.
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York Disability Week retweeted
“Carer’s allowance is £86.45 a week for 2026-27. Spread across 168 hours, that is roughly 51p an hour. As a sole carer, I have no downtime.” @guardian theguardian.com/society/2026…
York Disability Week retweeted
That wouldn’t help me & the cycle lanes they have built are not wide enough for those. Amazingly no publicity about them locally. Lovely weather to introduce them. Yes they will help a few people but not inclusive for everyone.
York Disability Week retweeted
Okay im watching The Experiment
I have had to stop at the first commercial break, I cant go any further right now.
This is the country my kids will be left behind in when I die.
Will they too be rounded up because they "cost too much"?
Thank you @sophmorgTV for making this.
York Disability Week retweeted
SCARBOROUGH HIT BY FLASH FLOODS! Downpours have flooded roads and left cars stranded and properties flooded this afternoon... #StormAusten
MORE: thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/lo…
Ian Wood's Stand Up, Sat Down scarboroughfair.uk/events/ia…
York Disability Week retweeted
Unsettling new research from @DisRightsUK
“I would love to go to the gym, every day, but I don’t dare because I would be seen as being too physically fit… I’m worried I’ll lose my benefits.”
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Disabled people who rely on PIP face ‘constant fear’ that physical activity could see them lose their benefits disabilitynewsservice.com/di… via @johnpringdns
York Disability Week retweeted
Children in North Yorkshire facing challenges like poverty or special educational needs could get support earlier. Read more 👉 hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit…
York Disability Week retweeted
This bullshit project from Herts County Council isn’t about connectivity: it’s about cost cutting. This crap needs to be challenged. “Trackless trams” are not trams: they’re BUSES. Bouncing bendy buses stuck halfway in traffic; and take away tracks & you take away fixed links.
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Researchers at the University of York are working to develop a robotic system that could make mammograms more accessible for people. Payment will be offered for your time. To find out more, email [email protected] or call 01904 328088.
York Disability Week retweeted
I hate to break it to you, not that you don't already know, but your media outlet is one of the reasons. You're part of the problem.
The lies and misinformation about benefits, the rhetoric thats shockingly similar, if not almost identical, to Aktion T4 propaganda, has been one of the main contributors.
Shocking TV show exposes how Brits failed to speak up to Nazi ideas on 'how to deal with disabled people' trib.al/AAYiYeD
York Disability Week retweeted
On 29 September I asked this 👇🏼of @nimbusdis, the controversial enterprise behind the access card - they have failed to acknowledge or answer. #Nimbus #AccessCard #Disability #mentalhealth
York Disability Week retweeted
@JohnHealey_MP
£39.8bn lost to the tax gap. Just £4bn to benefit fraud. Why are the most vulnerable paying the price? Poverty is NOT an economic strategy! Please commit to closing the tax gap and rule out further welfare cuts today. Read the National Statement: welfarefacts.org.uk/Welfare_…
York Disability Week retweeted
I’m bloody glad I did check because in reasons I do not understand it is ONLY FOR MANUAL WHEELCHAIRS 🤨
So powered wheelchair users cannot access this arts space despite it opening in 2018- long after the Equality Act took over from the DDA 95.
How are venues STILL opening
York Disability Week retweeted
We shouldn’t need to petition parliament. Where is the @EHRC on the subject of many venues demanding we buy a £15 access card in order to get reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act?
Require venues to accept government evidence of disability or caring needs petition.parliament.uk/petit…
York Disability Week retweeted
It’s that time of the year again where all the extra plinths get placed in front of shelving for Xmas, which coupled with general poor & thoughtless management of shop floor space means that unless you can shape shift you are royally #DisabledByTheSupermarkets
ALT A cadburys plinth sits in front of shelving and on the other side of the aisle, a restocking trolley full of boxes blocks the aisle.
Given how one has to play find the guard to get in, then wait patiently to get out, I suspect many have carried on as they did when it was #ClosedToUs and gone elsewhere. Need to feel welcome again.
Fewer Blue Badge holders using City Centre vehicle access westfieldnewsfocus.wordpress…
Require venues to accept government evidence of disability or caring needs petition.parliament.uk/petit…
What is the Channel 4 programme The Experiment about?mencap.org.uk/easyread/what-… @mencap_charity #TheExperiment
York Disability Week retweeted
My 2nd email to @yorkbarbican regarding the @nimbusdis controversy remains unanswered after almost 2 wks highlighting exactly what they think of customers with a #disability … disrespectful
“MUST have registered for a Nimbus Disability Access Card.”
Why, @YorkBarbican?
Disabled people have rights under the Equality Act 2010. Accessibility is a legal duty, not a membership scheme.
