DISCOVER Voices | disAbility Cornwall & IoS
Welcome to DISCOVER Voices, a disability lifestyle media network run by charity disAbility Cornwall & IoS. We produce our very own podcast network discussing life through the lens of people living with a long-term health condition or disability. We welcome a variety of hosts all with their own podcast series, giving their own outlook and take on topics and discussions that are close to their heart. This includes Care to Speak, a podcast focusing on carers’ rights and lived experience; The Advocacy Fellows, a podcast produced by young adults with learning disabilities; The Cornwall Memory Podcast, a show opening the conversation on memory loss and dementia; and Conversations with Dr Theo Blackmore, in which Theo interviews charity and disabled people’s organisation leaders.
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Real conversations with leaders in the UK's charity, DPO and voluntary sector.
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Contact us at: Discover@disabilitycornwall.org.uk
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Our podcast host Dr Theo Blackmore has a conversation with Inclusion London's CEO Tracey Lazard. With more than two decades of experience working across various Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations (DDPOs), Tracey is a person with a disability who has dedicated her career to advocating for disability equality, user involvement, and the Social Model of Disability and the Cultural Model of Deafness. Throughout the last 16 years, she has held CEO positions, and in 2011, she became Chief Executive at Inclusion London. -Tracey is deeply committed to the role DDPOs play in promoting equality and inclusion, as well as providing effective, accessible, and comprehensive services that have a positive impact on the lives of Deaf and Disabled people-For more information on Inclusion London please go to: https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Our series host Theo Blackmore is joined by Sophie Fournel, CEO of Disability Assist. Disability Assist is a disabled peoples' user-led organisation that covers the county of Kent.
They discuss the situation many disabled people face in Kent and the real need to encourage disabled people into the workforce. They discuss that more young disabled people need to come forward and start steering the future of disabled user-led organisations and charities.
For more information on Disability Assist and if you need information and advice in Kent, please go to: www.disabilityassist.org.uk
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Happy International Women's day! We have a fantastic podcast episode with guest speakers from WinVisible, an organisation devoted to fighting for the rights of disabled women.
Guest speakers associated with WinVisible discuss how there is massive discrimination and injustice that faces disabled mothers; how automatically, disabled mothers are seen as harmful to their children; the injustice many asylum seekers face and the alarming levels of domestic violence that women cannot escape from. Watch and listen to an array of passionate speakers on issues facing women and mothers across the country.
WinVisible is a multi-racial grassroots group that brings together women from diverse backgrounds and with various disabilities. Through mutual support, the group helps its members overcome isolation and discrimination, and fights for their entitlements. WinVisible offers self-help information and advocacy on issues such as benefits, accessing healthcare and support services, and employment discrimination. The group also tackles challenges related to homecare charges and the cost of living.For more information, visit WinVisible's website at: https://winvisibleblog.wordpress.com
Their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/winvisiblewomen/
Their Twitter: https://twitter.com/winvisiblewomen
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Theo and Rick Burgess, Outreach and Development Lead at Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP), have had a chat. They reminisce on how many disabled peoples' organisations were formed in pubs and by writing letters to eachother, and how it is essential to keep the disabled people's movement going, and that the key is to focus on rights, not charity.
For more information on Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, please go to: https://gmcdp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/gmcdp
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
How accessible is the county of Wiltshire for disabled people?
Theo converses with Mary Reed, CEO at Wiltshire Centre For Independent Living, about the challenges of being disabled in a rural county like Cornwall or Wiltshire. --Discover Voices (c) 2022, a production by registered charity, disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Theo is back with episode two! He talks with Dean Harvey, a Community Development Worker for Pentreath LTD, a mental health charity based near Newquay, Cornwall.
They talk about how people face oppression on multiple fronts and how third (voluntary) sector services can improve by helping people in a more holistic manner. They discuss how 'minorities' are minoritised and open the discussion on the pros and cons of terminology like BAME and Ally
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
This December 3rd marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2022, so what better day to announce our first new DISCOVER Voices podcast host, Dr Theo Blackmore. In Theo's first episode, he is joined by his friend and colleague Stephen Lee Hodgkins. Stephen is a self-taught community artist and visual thinker based in York. The duo discusses the implications of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, cultural values relating to disability and much more.