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