About this event This training session will provide an introduction to Disability and Disability Rights for charities, social enterprises and community organisations (service providers and service users). Training content: Disability is more common than you might think. You probably have …

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Healthwatch York want to hear your views on Health and Social Care services within the city. They want to raise your voices and so they established York Voices. York voICeS event is on the 29th March 1-3 and will focus …

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This event will mark the beginning of a new Contemporary History and Politics Research Group at York St John University. Lord Kinnock will talk with Dr James Cooper (Associate Professor of History and American Studies) and Dr Chris Kirkland (Lecturer …

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Join us on our pop-up dancefloor where you make the rules. Take up some space, soak up the vibes, bust a move, pick up a pen and tell us your demands. By making your mark on the walls of the …

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Tues 4 April 2023 The UK’s first Human Rights City – how is York faring? with Stephen Pittam In 2017 York became the UK’s first Human Rights City, by signing a declaration which states that it will “embrace a vision of …

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ORGANISER: Femmes Fortissimo Web: https://femmesfortissimo.weebly.com/get-in-touch.html Facebook: FemmesFortissimo Twitter: @FemmesFortissi1  Instagram: femmes_fortissimo When: Saturday 22nd April | 19:30-21:30 Where: Acomb Parish Church Hall, Front Street, Acomb, York YO24 3DW. Cost: Tickets £10 (under 18s £7.50). Book online in advance: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/femmes-fortissimo/t-rpqllov  Any profits to York-based charity Survive.  Access: Wheelchair accessible, accessible toilet. A …

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York People First are holding an event about the future of self advocacy in York, North Yorkshire, East Riding and North/East Lincolnshire. This event is run by, and for, people with learning difficulties/disabilities, who are autistic or neurodiverse. We want …

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