Our next workshop on Zoom — all welcome: Wednesday 19 May, 1.30pm-3.30pm Disabled mums and our children — our right to support not separation Register free on Eventbrite here. Email us if support needed: win@winvisible.org Speakers so far: · Proud to be a disabled mum: The right to have children and family life – Nicole Als … Read more
WinVisible supported the campaign by Legal Action for Women and Payday men’s network, pressing the Royal College of Psychiatrists to withdraw their endorsement of “Close Supervision Centres” as “enabling environments”. Close Supervision Centres are prison units where people are kept in solitary confinement, sometimes for years. Their open letter to the RCP, which we (among … Read more
Award-winning comedian Chazz Redhead has very kindly chosen to benefit WinVisible in this online FUNdraiser event tomorrow: “Comedian Chazz Redhead and Humorous Cubist Tom Crosbie are going head-to-head in a 12-hour event on their respective Twitch channels! They’ll be joined by guests from the world of comedy, music, and more to perform challenges, all the … Read more
MPs concerned about food supply under COVID have issued their latest recommendations today 7 April. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs MPs’ committee held a follow-up inquiry as problems with food supply continued during Lockdown 3 in January. WinVisible was among 42 concerned organisations and individuals asked to update our previous testimony. Highlights of the … Read more
Kill The Bill Coalition Statement We, the undersigned groups and organisations, stand in solidarity with all those fighting to #KillTheBill. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a dangerous and unnecessary piece of legislation that endangers the rights and safety of every single one of us. It is therefore no surprise that those who … Read more
Disability groups including WinVisible have condemned the government’s breaches of rights under COVID. Reactions here. Here is the full list compiled by DNS: 1 Ministers failed to offer recipients of so-called legacy benefits such as ESA the same £20-a-week benefit increase given to those on universal credit. 2 The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) took … Read more