Breakthrough UK

We're an organisation OF disabled people supporting others to play a full role in society. @BreakthrouUKLtd for policy. Shares not necessarily endorsements.

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

Manchester Disability Collaborative is excited to invite you to the Disabled People's Assembly on the 4th December 2025. Sign up on Eventbrite: https://t.co/YPNDpNihAj

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

The Manchester Disability Collaborative is hiring a new Chair!
Please visit the Breakthrough website for details of the role, and how to apply:
https://t.co/myb6iD5A55

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

Diverse Works is back! 🌟
Free online sessions helping disabled & neurodivergent job seekers build CVs, interview skills & confidence.

🗓 15 Oct | 4 Nov | 20 Nov
Online
👉 Sign up: https://t.co/5FsVl5VFGe

#DiverseWorks #InclusiveEmployment #DisabilityInclusion #Neurodiversity

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🎨Access to arts should be a right, not a privilege. So why are so many Deaf & Disabled people locked out of creative spaces?

Make It Together wants to tackle this!

Join our online creative hangout centring Deaf & Disabled people and your experiences👇 https://t.co/msCm0fPYIl

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

🎨Access to arts and creativity should be a right, not a privilege. So why are so many Deaf & Disabled people locked out of creative spaces?
Make It Together wants to tackle this!
Join our online hangout centring Deaf & Disabled people & your experiences👇 https://t.co/pl9Pyk78zo

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨NEWS🚨

UN Special Rapporteurs on benefit cuts: "We fear that this process may have put fiscal considerations before the duties of the UK [...] under the international human rights instruments it has ratified, with a disproportionate impact on the rights of [Disabled people]"

[Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @GMCDP]

You've got until midnight on Monday the 7th to send in your application.
If you are having difficulties, just email in to let us know it's on its way in the next few days.

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

We are recruiting for positions on the CHEM Disabled People's Sounding Board. This is a paid opportunity for a disabled person and/or a Disabled People's Organisation to lend their voice to help shape policy and services in Manchester to be inclusive. Deadline - 18 July 2025.

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

Manchester Lived Experience Leaders call on MPs across #Manchester constituencies to vote against the proposals in the Pathways to Work Green Paper. The proposed cuts will prove to have a devastating impact on #disabled people and our society: https://t.co/9bTYxmzQhE

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

#Manchester Lived Experience Leaders call for proposals to cut disability benefits to be scrapped and replaced by a willingness to work with disabled people to create a disability strategy that includes well-informed, fully impact-assessed proposals: https://t.co/pdFeCwuc8c

[Not Dead Yet UK @TheNotDeadYetUK]

READ AND SHARE: a clear & comprehensive briefing by @Dis_PPL_Protest, detailing how the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill endangers disabled people & will shorten lives, especially after parliamentary scrutiny has weakened the legislation: https://t.co/cHrfM0IabU

#VoteNo

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

In utter dismay at the Government's benefits bill today.

Utterly ridiculous to claim it is supportive to give 3 months additional payments to those having their PIP taken away... and then what? Do we suddenly stop being Disabled?

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨NEWS🚨

15 Labour MPs joined us today to take a public stand and say they are voting NO to disability benefit cuts. More need convincing - we don't think any MP could vote for these cuts with a clear conscience.

📷Photo: David Mirzoeff
https://t.co/S5P6PkLxKG

[Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @GMCDP]

All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty and Inequality recommends withdrawing the proposed cuts to disability benefits in the Green Paper
https://t.co/14grsxfHjy

[Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @GMCDP]

Less than one week left to apply for our CEO job vacancy. It's part time, flexible hours. https://t.co/DEl5P9u7Om

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

Manchester Lived Experience Leaders call on #MPs across #Manchester constituencies to vote against the proposals in the Pathways to Work Green Paper. The proposed #cuts will prove to have a devastating impact on #disabled people and our society: https://t.co/9bTYxmzQhE

[Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @GMCDP]

We have just published a joint letter with GM Equality Panel members opposing the DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper, please promote it across your networks and media:

Full text and easy read at link
https://t.co/WzhsYk8A9m

[Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @GMCDP]

Citizens Advice condemn Green Paper cuts https://t.co/ld5qtLJVug

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

Recently delivered Social Model of Disability training with our trading arm, Equal Edge. 💜

It’s not people’s conditions that disable — it’s the barriers in society. Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation and helped drive change!

#SocialModel #BreakthroughUK #EqualEdge

[Breakthrough UK @BUKCommunity]

We need your stories!
Two BUK staff are heading to Westminster on Wednesday to speak to MPs about how the cuts will impact disabled people.
Please fill in the below form to share your story or name as someone who opposes these cuts.
https://t.co/7ts93ydlNd