Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026See you tomorrow (Sat 22nd Aug) 1 - 4pm. Bembe Cafe Pavilion in Alexandra Park M16 Weather is sunny intervals and light winds, 20 C, no rain and no heatwave! You are welcome to bring picnic rugs and your own food, we will also provide food. 002
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026GM Disability Justice Picnic 1-4pm, Saturday 22nd August Alexandra Park Pavilion & Cafe M16 8PJ Food, Drink, games, socialising, open mic. 126
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Hope to see you there @bevcraig.bsky.social We have British Sign Language, and personal care assistants to make it fully accessible. 000
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Together with @acornunion.bsky.social and GM Living Income, GMCDP are holding a GM Mayoral hustings with particular focus on the Cost of Living. Ascension Church Hulme, 282 Stretford Road, M15 5TQ Tues 28th July, 6-8pm. Do They Deserve Your Vote? Register here actionnetwork.org/events/cost-...actionnetwork.orgCost of Living GM Mayoral HustingsFood, rent, and other basics of life continue to be a huge burden for millions of people across Greater Manchester. The cost of living is too high, and wages have failed to keep up. Three organisatio... 002
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The Greater Manchester Social Care Commission was set up so that people with lived experience and people in the social care system could talk about improving adult social care. ●Accessible Information and Communication ●Social Care Charging ●Advocacy gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/gm-social-ca...gmdisabledpeoplespanel.comGM Social Care CommissionThe Greater Manchester Social Care Commission was set up so that people with lived experience and people in the social care system could talk about improving adult social care. We looked at the pro… 011
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Right to Food Commission Monday 8th June 1:00 - 2:30pm • Zoom Shape what a new Right to Food law should look like! Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/right-to-f...eventbrite.co.ukRight to Food CommissionThe Right To Food UK Commission will shine a light on the unacceptable nature of food insecurity in Britain & map out solutions. 033
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleManchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Friday afternoon 29th May Resisting Disabled Activist Burnout at Ellen Wilkinson Building Room AG.3/4 University of Manchester www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-...eventbrite.co.ukResisting Disabled Activist BurnoutJoin our hybrid event to share research, stories, and ideas on how to resist activist burnout and support each other as a community. 002
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Right to Food Commission Monday 8th June 1:00 - 2:30pm • Zoom Shape what a new Right to Food law should look like! Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/right-to-f...eventbrite.co.ukRight to Food CommissionThe Right To Food UK Commission will shine a light on the unacceptable nature of food insecurity in Britain & map out solutions. 000
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Voting in the local elections on 7 May? You need photo ID to vote in a polling station. Your ID can be out of date as long as the photo still looks like you. Find the full list of accepted ID here: electoralcommission.org.uk/voterID #LocalElectionselectoralcommission.org.ukVoter IDYou need to show photo ID to vote at polling stations in some elections. 000
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026So often the concurrent conditions and symptoms are siloed and get ignored due to lack of awareness. #HNDay #HypermobilityNeurodivergenceDay #HypermobilityNeurodivergenceAwarenessDay Check out for more info www.sedsconnective.orgsedsconnective.orgSEDSConnective | Hypermobility, EDS & Neurodivergence CharitySEDSConnective is a user-led charity supporting people with hypermobility, EDS/HSD and neurodivergent conditions through community, resources and advocacy. 041
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleAlliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) @allfieuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Join ALLFIE's launch of a regional Movement for Inclusive Education, in collaboration with @gmcdp.bsky.social, on 30th April 2026📣 Disabled people organising for justice, liberation & systemic change. Join us online or in person in Manchester: eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-incl... #EducateDontSegregate 032
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026#EducateDontSegregate #InclusiveEducation Join us in-person or online for the launch of a regional Movement for Inclusive Education in Manchester. Thursday, 30 April 2026 11:30am - 6pm International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester M1 5BY www.allfie.org.uk/events/build... 020
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Disability History Month Celebration - JOY! By Disabled People's Archive & North West Film Archive Manchester Central Library Dec 4 from 12pm to 4pm GMT www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...eventbrite.co.ukDisability History Month Celebration - JOY!The Disabled People's Archive (DPA) and North West Film Archive (NWFA) are hosting a free event to celebrate the DPA's new project & UKDHM. 001
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025JOB! PA to GMCDP Staff Member, closing date: 26 Nov Hours: 28 hours per week, including planned evenings and weekends Location: Hybrid (home-based, travel within Manchester) Salary: £16 per hour; (£29,000 per annum FTE) - funded by Access to Work. Contract: until March 2026 in the first instance.gmcdp.comJobs | Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People 000
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Celebrate International Day of Disabled People with GMCDP on Wednesday 03 December 2025 For more information and to book your free place: 👉 iddpsocial.eventbrite.co.uk youtu.be/1oOtLS0Yn_c?... 022
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Disabled people have warned for years that welfare reform pushes us deeper into poverty and exclusion. Now the UN has called out the UK again. It's time for rights, dignity, and justice at home. We write with @justfairuk.bsky.social in the Big Issuebigissue.comUniversal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United NationsUnited Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit. 095
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025💼 We’re hiring! Part-time Operational Manager at GMCDP. Join us to keep our operations running smoothly & support disabled people’s rights. 📍 Remote (flexible hours) 💰 £21,600 pro rata (£36k FTE) ⏳ Apply by 27 Oct 🔗 gmcdp.com/jobs #GMCDP #Hiring #DisabilityRights #Operations 000
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Benefit Tips Social! Wednesday, October 15・6:00pm Online and In Person at Proud Trust Includes Pizza and creative social session! Book Now www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/benefits-t... 022
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025With support from The National Archives, we’re also recruiting an Archive Catalogue Project Worker (staff). All posts run until April 2027. 👉 gmcdp.com/jobs (2/2)gmcdp.comJobs | Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People 020
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025We’re recruiting for 4 roles on our Disabled People’s Archive 🎉 Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (made possible by National Lottery players) we’re looking for an Archive Project Assistant (staff), plus freelance Oral Historian & Evaluator. (1/2)gmcdp.comJobs | Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People 141
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Don't fight the DWP alone, do it with friends! Benefits Tips Social Wed July 16・6:00pm The Proud Trust 49-51 Sidney St M1 7HB Join us for our hybrid Benefits Tips Social - an evening of disability-related Benefits tips and peer support. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/benefits-t...eventbrite.co.ukBenefits Tips SocialJoin us for our hybrid Benefits Tips Social - an evening of disability-related Benefits tips and peer support. 055
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025· the extension of financial surveillance and policing powers in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill. The Committee will examine the responses and all credible information during its thirty-third session, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 26 August 2025. 052
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025· the lack of a limited scrutiny because of its designation as a money bill. · public statements by politicians and authorities portraying disabled people as fraudulent or burdens on society including debates around the Terminally Ill Adults Bill. 152
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The committee seeks answers on: · the lack of full impact assessments. · the impact on women, younger people, and global majority people. · the risk of increasing poverty rate. · the inadequacy of the public consultation. · the lack of involvement of deaf and disabled people’s organisations.tbinternet.ohchr.org 142
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Even after concessions and the dropping of Clause 5 our concerns remain. Please note the UN has been given a timeframe for a response which conflicts with Government plans to designate this a money bill, meaning it should not be designated as such. 141
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨 The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights. tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...tbinternet.ohchr.org 12417
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Tell your MP to vote against the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill, it will put 50,000 disabled people into poverty. Also ask them to support these Amendments: 043
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Deadline to apply is rapidly approaching, Monday 7th July! 058
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The Universal Credit and PIP Bill and Green Paper are the wrong policy approach and harmful. The ‘concessions’ do not alter this. We ask MP’s to vote the bill down on Tuesday. Please continue to seek ways to talk to MP’s and their staff to give them this message. 065
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Human Rights Watch: UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities - Proposed Benefit Cuts Will Worsen Poverty and Undermine Rightshrw.orgUK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With DisabilitiesWhile the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r... 085
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleLGBT Foundation @lgbtfdn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Refuse to be invisible! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Now is the time to make our voices heard, sharing our experiences in the EHRC Consultation which affects LGBTQ+ people. We've created a handy guide to help plan your response, get started now and share this post. www.lgbt.foundation/EHRC 14728
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025We have also been through two UN examinations that have found the UK is committing continued grave and systemic human rights abuses of disabled people. Until we can rely on our needs and Rights being met to thrive in society, the risk from this Bill of coerced euthanasia is too great to accept. 000
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025As Covid showed us, medical professionals have a low level of understanding of the realities of disabled people’s lives and we were disproportionately the greatest number of dead from the pandemic. 100
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025With ongoing austerity, our Social Care, Social Security, and Healthcare systems are in perpetual crisis with unmet need increasing. Disabled People are not getting the support they need to live. 100
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025GM Disabled People’s Panel is comprised of 16 organisations led by disabled people, we have a breadth of views across our organisations on Assisted Dying. However on the specific matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill we believe now is the wrong time to be supporting such legislation 100
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel (GMDPP) statement on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2024/11/27/g... 102
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 18/06/2025First reading today after Urgent Questions And Statements at 12:30 commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/955... PRESENTATION OF BILLS No debate (Standing Order No. 57) Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Secretary Liz Kendall Bill to make provision to alter the rates...commonsbusiness.parliament.ukOrder Paper for 18 June 2025 025
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025There's still time to apply for our CEO vacancy. It's part time and flexible. gmcdp.com/jobs 000
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleManchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Save The Date! We will be holding the first GM Disability Pride March on Saturday 5th July in Central Manchester, route will be announced soon. manchesterdpac.commanchesterdpac.comManchester Disabled People Against CutsWe are disabled people in Greater Manchester and surrounding areas fighting for our rights. 113
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Need help and peer support with your Social Security/DWP? Come along to Benefit Tips Social Thurs 12th June 6-9pm at Proud Place or online, register here gmcdp.com/civicrm/even... Location of Proud Place what3words.com/trees.cling.... 014
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Are you a disabled leader committed to disability rights and the Social Model of Disability? Do you believe in the power of grassroots activism, user-led change and inclusive leadership? Could you be our new CEO? gmcdp.com/jobs #DisabilityRights #NonprofitJobs #GreaterManchesterJobs #UKJobsgmcdp.comJobs | Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People 022
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Citizens Advice condemn Green Paper cuts www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...citizensadvice.org.ukPathways to Poverty: How planned cuts to disability benefits will impact the people we supportPathways to Poverty: How planned cuts to disability benefits will impact the people we support 040
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled Peoplecatherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 23/05/202523 May, two days since mass lobby of UK Parliament on 21 May. Recovering at home in Manchester. Read ALT text of the images below for more. Have a good Bank Holiday all @jeffsmithmp.bsky.social @well-adapt.bsky.social @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @gmcdp.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleGreater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025We 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 with references and Easy Read at link gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2025/05/22/g... 11111
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleTurn2us @turn2us.org.uk · 14/05/2025The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals. Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability StrategyThe DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ... 11310
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025We 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 with references and Easy Read at link gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2025/05/22/g... 11111
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The case is over. We forced the DWP to explain its algorithm. Details at Crowdjustice update: www.crowdjustice.com/case/dwp-alg...crowdjustice.comHelp us fight the DWP’s secret benefits algorithmWe are a Disabled People's Organisation run and controlled by disabled people. We use the Social Model of Disability to fight for our rights and to remove disabling barriers in society. 054
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025SURVEY: Women’s Budget Group (a feminist economics think tank) and Sisters of Frida (a Disabled women and non-binary people’s collective) The impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to disability benefits announced in March 2025. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comSURVEY: The impact of the Government’s proposed reforms to disability benefits announced in March 2025A Women’s Budget Group and Sisters of Frida research collaboration This project The Women’s Budget Group (a feminist economics think tank) and Sisters of Frida (a Disabled women and non-binary people’... 035
Reposted by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled PeopleGreater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We have lodged a petition on the government's website to stop disability cuts, it if get's 100,000 signatures it will be considered for a debate in Parliament: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability StrategyThe DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ... 01014
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We have lodged a petition on the government's website to stop disability cuts, it if get's 100,000 signatures it will be considered for a debate in Parliament: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability StrategyThe DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ... 01014