🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

We are currently looking for Gig Buddy volunteers from across Wales! Interested or just want to find out more? Awesome! You can visit gigbuddies.cymru, e-mail [email protected] or phone 029 2068 1160.

Disabled people, do you know your rights and how to use them? Our #KnowYourRights, Use your Rights, Live your Rights resource aims to empower disabled people by equipping you with essential information about your rights. Have a read: disabilitywales.org/socialmodel/

🚨 Latest Department for Work and Pensions estimates show 3.2m families across the UK will lose income under the current plans to cut disability benefits by 2029/2030. 700,000 will be families already in relative poverty when taking housing costs into account. Read more: theguardian.com/society/2025/m… 1/2

Did you know we can make forms and surveys more accessible for people with a learning disability? This is key to getting the maximum number of responses. #AboutEasyReadWales #AccessibleForms

Oeddech chi’n gwybod ein bod yn gallu gwneud ffurflenni ac arolygon yn fwy hygyrch i bobl gydag anabledd dysgu? Mae hyn yn allweddol i gael y nifer mwyaf o ymatebion. #AmHawddEiDdeallCymru

📢Calling all our members. We need your voice to fight back against heartless benefit cuts. Tell us how these changes would affect you by taking our short survey. Every voice matters! surveymonkey.com/r/6GNN79S

New blog post: Recent closures of learning disability organisations and support services is a worrying trend according to our CEO Zoe Richards. ldw.org.uk/closures-of-le…

Post blog newydd: Mae cau sefydliadau anabledd dysgu a gwasanaethau cymorth yn ddiweddar yn duedd bryderus yn ôl ein Prif Swyddog Gweithredol Zoe Richards. ldw.org.uk/cy/blog-y-prif…

New PhD study aiming to identify gender differences in workplace support for autistic adults. English version: lnkd.in/eRGWzgPP Welsh version: lnkd.in/evCU5k-W lnkd.in/eDp3T_Vu

Disability benefit cuts 'impossible to support', Starmer told by his own MPs bigissue.com/news/politics/…

Andrea Meek Easy Read Wales Learning Disability Wales Mencap Cymru Thank you for highlighting this! Without the easy read it's very difficult for individuals to respond as the easy read makes it more accessible also for carers who don't have much time.

Cardiff Buddies, Richie and Mark have been interviewed for the new series of ITV Cymru Wales’s arts show Backstage! Huge thanks to Canopi Cardiff for hosting the interview and Clwb Ifor Bach for letting ITV Cymru Wales film at last week’s brilliant gig by Gans.

🚌 Help us get to London and make our voices heard in the fight against cuts to disability benefits! We're raising funds to hire an accessible coach so DW staff & members can join the Mass Lobby. Please donate whatever you can. Together, we are stronger. justgiving.com/campaign/disab…

Please support us if you can to enable members to join the mass lobby at Westminster on 21st May to talk to MPs about the devastating impact of cuts to PIP on disabled people in Wales Disability Wales

FOCUS Wales Festival, part 2 We were thrilled to have had musician Mali Hâf drop by our stall and have a chat at FOCUS Wales Festival in #Wrexham last week! Mali Hâf was joined by Fiona, who works for a PR Company in New York City.

Gig Buddies South Wales participants Nicole, Simon and Geraint are part of Tŷ Cerdd's Bwthyn Sonig Collective! Nicole and Simon sent us photos and a video taken during rehearsals following their most recent performance at Wales Millennium Centre. We hope you all had an absolute blast!

Please find important information about Vale People First gardening tomorrow will be the last and final session Lana’s Cafe is also closed

'Why are these difficult decisions always borne by the poorest, most vulnerable and Disabled? We could be making different decisions, like taxing wealth' Disabled MP Nadia Whittome MP speaks powerfully against the Government's planned benefit cuts bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

We are all so sad to hear that Vale People First has made the difficult decision to close. Self advocacy is so important and this will be a terrible loss for everyone involved.

So disappointing to see this. We must fight to ensure that people with learning disabilities in Wales can continue to have access to self-advocacy support.