The Disability Download
Storytelling Podcasts
The Disability Download is brought to you by pan-disability charity Leonard Cheshire. We respond to current topics, share stories and open up conversations about disability. From sex education, to inclusive sport, to music and mental health - you don't want to miss this! Don't forget to hit subscribe!
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Storytelling Podcasts
Description:
The Disability Download is brought to you by pan-disability charity Leonard Cheshire. We respond to current topics, share stories and open up conversations about disability. From sex education, to inclusive sport, to music and mental health - you don't want to miss this! Don't forget to hit subscribe!
Twitter:
@leonardcheshire
Language:
English
Episodes
Accessible Travel with Arunima Misra
9/30/2024
In this episode, Leonard Cheshire's Joshua Reeves speaks with Whizz-Kidz ambassador Arunima Misra about accessible travel and navigating holidays as a wheelchair user.
Duration:00:29:53
Paris 2024 Paralympics Preview with Team GB’s Olivia Breen
7/29/2024
Follow Leonard Cheshire
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Follow Olivia and find out more about Paris 2024
You can follow Olivia via @livvy_breen on Instagram and @BreenOlivia on Twitter.
There’s an easy way to find out more about Olivia, her fellow athletes and her journey to the Paralympic Games in 2024. Check out Olivia Breen’s Paris Diaries on BBC Sounds.
Duration:00:17:20
Parenting with a Disability: Navigating Challenges and Celebrating Strengths
5/25/2024
Follow Jessica on X and Instagram using: @mrsjhatchett
Follow Leonard Cheshire
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:31:22
In Fashion: Disabled Business Owners and the Disability Employment Gap
4/27/2024
Cassie Lovelock
Dr Cassandra Lovelock (she/they) is a Black mixed-race wheelchair user living with chronic illness and ADHD. She is a scholar activist whose work focuses on ethical, lived experience-led research, education, and policy making practice within the fields of mental health, neurodiversity, unpaid care, disability, poverty and worklessness.
Find Cassie on Social Media: @soapsub - Instagram and x.com
You can check out Cassie’s work here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/cassandra-lovelock
Tilly Dowler
Tilly is a disabled business owner who runs pre-loved clothing boutique Wanted Wardrobe (Studios 5b, Castle wall buildings, Clapgun St, Castle Donington, Derby DE74 2LE). Her shop is open to customers from Tuesday to Saturday. Tilly has Stargardt’s Disease, a progressive condition affecting central vision.
You can find Wanted Wardrobe on:
Instagram: @wanted_wardrobe_
Facebook: @wantedwardrobe1
Vinted: @WantedWardrobe23
TikTok: @wantedwardrobetilly
Online: www.wantedwardrobe.co.uk
Visit Leonard Cheshire's website: https://leonardcheshire.org/
Follow Leonard Cheshire on social: @LeonardCheshire
Get in touch and let us know what you think of the episode: disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:46:19
Care, relationships and why the Budget fails disabled people.
3/30/2024
Follow Leonard Cheshire
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Follow Kerry Thompson and read more of her work
You can follow Kerry via @kerry_thompson on Instagram, @kerrymThompson on Twitter. You can follow her blog: My Life, Kerry’s Way.
You can also read her article for Leonard Cheshire on the cost of living crisis and energy.
Like many disabled people, I lose sleep worrying about bills | Leonard Cheshire
Her points on the extra costs of disability and high energy usage are very relevant for disabled people in 2024 and beyond.
Duration:00:21:34
Taboo Tales Love, Sex, and Disability
2/24/2024
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Find Zarifa on:
www.itsanidealworld.com, or @ZarifaRoberson on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and Snapchat.
Or you can directly e-mail her on: zroberson@itsanidealworld.com
Find Paige and Taylor on:
https://www.instagram.com/alifelookingup/
https://www.youtube.com/@ALifeLookingUp
Duration:00:36:33
Welcome to Wrexham: Access All Areas. With Kerry Evans.
2/3/2024
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Follow Wrexham
You can find out more about accessibility at Wrexham and follow Kerry’s work.
on Twitter via @OfficalDLOWAFC.
Follow Wrexham AFC: @Wrexham_AFC (Twitter) and @wrexham_AFC (Instagram)
Follow Welcome to Wrexham: @WrexhamFX (Twitter) and @wrexhamfx
Duration:00:36:31
Disability Download 2023: Our Highlights
12/23/2023
In this episode, we feature:
Duration:00:29:37
Black History Month with Fats Timbo and Cassie Lovelock - History, Hate Crime and Having an Impact
10/23/2023
Follow our guests on Social media:
Fats: @fatstimbo - Instagram, @fats_timbo on x.com
Cassandra: @soapsub - Instagram and x.com
You can check out Cassie’s work here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/cassandra-lovelock
Visit Leonard Cheshire's website: https://leonardcheshire.org/
Follow Leonard Cheshire on social: @LeonardCheshire
Get in touch and let us know what you think of the episode: disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:40:28
Uniting Against Disability Hate Crime with Leonard Cheshire, United Response and Victim Support
9/30/2023
This episode explores the topic of disability hate crime – what it is and how people can be allies to disabled people.
UK disability charities Leonard Cheshire and United Response are set to launch key research on disability hate crime with the latest figures in all four UK nations.
You can get support from the organisations below.
Leonard Cheshire – We support disabled people across the UK. Check out the Leonard Cheshire disability hate crime page (latest updates will be live in October 2023).
United Response – UK charity supporting disabled people. Check out the United Response disability hate crime page.
Hate Crime Advocacy Service – Project supporting people in Northern Ireland who have experienced hate crime. This involves Leonard Cheshire, Victim Support, Migrant Centre NI and the Rainbow Trust)
External Organisations
Citizens Advice Bureau – an independent organisation that provides free and confidential information to people about different problems, including debt, housing, finance, and legal issues.
Website: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ law-and-courts/discrimination/hate-crime/
Crimestoppers – a national charity with a free helpline for reporting crime anonymously.
Website: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/
Phone: 0800 555 111
Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS) – a free Helpline to give information and guidance on discrimination and human rights for people living in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Website: https://www.equalityadvisoryservice. com/
Email: adviceline@equalityadvisoryservice.com
Phone: 0808 800 0082
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – the independent non-departmental public body responsible for the promotion of equality and non-discrimination laws in England and Wales.
Website: https://equalityhumanrights.com/en
Email: correspondence@equalityhumanrights. com
Phone: 020 7832 7800 (London) / 02920 447710 (Cardiff)
GALOP – the UK’s largest anti-abuse charity for LGBTQ+ people, supporting LGBTQ+ victims and survivors of domestic violence and hate crime.
Website: http://www.galop.org.uk/
Email: hatecrime@galop.org.uk
Phone: 020 7704 2040
Stop Hate UK – a charity that provides independent and confidential support to people affected by hate crime.
Website: https://www.stophateuk.org/
Email: info@stophate.org
Phone: 0113 293 5100
Tell MAMA – national initiative that seeks to tackle anti-Muslim attitudes whilst supporting victims and survivors with confidential advice.
Website: https://tellmamauk.org/
Email: info@tellmamauk.org
Phone: 0800 456 1226
True Vision – a national police scheme to help victims report hate crimes online.
Website: https://www.report-it.org.uk/
Phone: 0208 016 5678
Victim Support – an independent charity operating in England and Wales that provides advice, information, and support to victims of abuse, hate crime, and other traumatic incidents.
Website: https://www.victimsupport.org.uk/
Email: https://www.victimsupport.org.uk/ help-and-support/get-help/supportline/email-supportline/
Duration:00:20:14
Disability Pride with Dr Hannah Barham-Brown
7/29/2023
You can follow Dr Hannah Barham-Brown on:
https://www.instagram.com/drhannahbarhambrown/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahbarhambrown/
https://twitter.com/DrHannahBB
https://hannahbarhambrown.com/
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Get in touch by emailing disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:28:40
Beneath the Surface: Tattoos and Disability
6/24/2023
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Get in touch by emailing disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Find Jax's Podcast/Broadcast Show "The One Take Live Cast" on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_one_take_live_cast/
Duration:00:27:11
From Adventurer to Advocate: Shehla’s Journey with FND (Functional Neurological Disorder)
5/31/2023
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Get in touch by emailing disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Find Shehla at www.aboutme.group
What is Functional Neurological Disorder?
Duration:00:26:37
Living with an Invisible Disability: A Conversation with Mili
4/29/2023
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Get in touch by emailing disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
More information:
Mili mentions DecodeME – a large scientific study of people with M.E. launched in September 2022. You can read media coverage from the launch.
Duration:00:17:50
Where there's a will, there's a way: Disability and possibility with Yahye Siyad
3/25/2023
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Follow Cyber-Duck on Twitter: @cyberduck_uk or visit their website: cyber-duck.co.uk
Yahye's autobiography "Unshakeable Will" is available here.
Get in touch by emailing disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:29:53
"Keeping My Own Voice” - The Impact of Voice Banking and Assistive Tech with Steve and Jane
2/25/2023
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org
Discover more about technology at Hill House
Find out more about the Leonard Cheshire assistive technology project at Hill House, which supported Jane with voice banking.
Get in touch by emailing disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:36:50
Transforming the Theatre Experience: Getting Creative with Captions with Alice Christina-Corrigan
1/28/2023
Check out Alice's website: https://alicechristina.wixsite.com/my-site
Follow Alice on Instagram: @aliceccorrigan
Follow Alice on Twitter: @aliceccorrigan
More about Alice's show Past Life: https://cptheatre.co.uk/artists/Alice-ChristinaCorrigan
More about Leonard Cheshire: https://www.leonardcheshire.org/
Follow Leonard Cheshire on social: @LeonardCheshire
Duration:00:29:50
Accessible Nightlife and Queer Spaces – who's getting it right and what needs to change? With Josh, Arthur and Charlie
12/30/2022
Check our Arthur's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ArthursRollingVlog
Follow Leonard Cheshire on social: @LeonardCheshire
Get in touch with your ideas: disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Find out more about Leonard Cheshire: https://leonardcheshire.org/
Duration:00:38:54
Access (not) all areas: From Fringe to fooling Penn and Teller, with magician and performer Rob West
11/26/2022
Check out Rob and Rhys' website for tour dates: https://morganandwest.co.uk/
Follow Rob on Twitter: @WestMagic
Follow Morgan and West on Instagram: @morganandwest
Visit Leonard Cheshire's website: https://leonardcheshire.org/
Follow Leonard Cheshire on social: @LeonardCheshire
Get in touch and let us know what you think of the episode: disabilitydownload@leonardcheshire.org
Duration:00:33:39
Fuel poverty and food banks: Why disabled people are turning to the Trussell Trust
10/29/2022
Follow Leonard Cheshire and the Trussell Trust
You can follow Leonard Cheshire on Twitter or Instagram @LeonardCheshire. Find out more at leonardcheshire.org You can follow Trussell Trust on Twitter or Facebook @TrussellTrust or via trusselltrust.org
About the Trussell Trust
The Trussell Trust exists so we can all be free from hunger.
Together, the Trussell Trust has more than 1,300 local food bank centres across the UK, providing practical support for people facing hardship. But emergency food isn’t a long-term solution to hunger.
People need food banks when they don’t have enough money for essentials. It’s not right that anyone needs a food bank to get by. This can be changed this by ensuring everyone has enough income to eat, stay warm and stay dry. That's why the Trussell Trust also work with communities across the UK to change the things that push people to need a food bank
About fuel poverty
Martin refers to fuel poverty. According to the common understanding of fuel poverty, someone is in fuel poverty when they find it extremely difficult to find the money to heat their home.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), someone in fuel poverty finds themselves in the following situation:
Duration:00:27:37