Community Stories

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.  It’s like this:

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement

The podcast Chronically Christie about Chronic Kidney Disease

World Diabetes Day – talking to Rebecca from M.E, Myself and Fatigue

This month is Down’s Syndrome Awareness Month and we are looking at the work of artist Florence Halliwell, a remarkable land artist whose work is breaking boundaries not only in the world of art but also in how we view ability, creativity, and inclusion. Born with Down’s Syndrome, Florence has channelled her unique perspective into […]

On World Sight Day (10th October 2024) is a global event designed to draw attention to blindness and vision impairment. It was originally initiated by the SightFirstCampaign of Lions Club International Foundation in 2000. There are around 1.1 billion people worldwide living with an untreated or preventable visual impairment. When someone loses their sight, it affects […]

The impact of lockdown affected life and work for many people, Carolyn Parker tells us how lockdown changed her life. The last three years have turned my world upside down… in a good way. Before lockdown, my work involved care visits to private clients in South Leicestershire. I’ve always been a people person, starting as […]

Nimbus Disability is a social enterprise run by disabled people for disabled people. It was founded by Martin Austin MBE almost 20 years ago with supply income donated to its sister charity Disability Direct to further enable projects supporting disabled people. Originally, Nimbus was focused on supporting businesses to meet and exceed their obligations to disabled […]