Campaign voice blog
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Blind and partially sighted women press for progress
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- Thursday, 8 March 2018
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- Campaign voice blog
On International Women's Day, our Advocacy Director, Fazilet Hadi, shares her thoughts on the importance of blind and partially sighted women campaigners.
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It’s time to fix PIP
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- Wednesday, 14 February 2018
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- Campaign voice blog
Deputy CEO Fazilet Hadi explains why it's important we act now to improve the PIP assessment process for blind and partially sighted people.
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Closing the disability employment gap: what can the Government do?
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
We need to see significant measures in the soon to be published outcome of the DWP Work, Health and Disability Green Paper for the UK Government to achieve it's ambition to get one million more disabled people into work.
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Doing the decent thing for disabled people makes economic sense too
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- Monday, 20 November 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
Ahead of the Autumn Budget Fazilet Hadi, our Deputy Chief Executive, shares her thoughts on what she'd like to see included.
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The dangers of walking briskly
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- Thursday, 24 August 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
Fazilet Hadi our Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Advocacy explains, as a blind person using a cane, why keeping fit by briskly walking down the street is just not an option for her.
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Queen's Speech - June 2017
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- Thursday, 29 June 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
We review the Queen's Speech and pull out announcements of interest to RNIB.
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SYMBOLic decisions
- Posted:
- Monday, 23 January 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
Natalie Doig, our Bedfordshire Volunteer Campaign Coordinator, has shared her experiences of using a symbol cane and her journey in becoming a cane user.
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Me and my mate Stella
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- Friday, 20 January 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
Hayley has shared what a couple of days in her life are like as a long cane user. It’s often emotive and heart warming and shows the barriers that cane users face everyday getting out and about.
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A change has got to come
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- Thursday, 12 January 2017
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- Campaign voice blog
Bernie Reddington, our Volunteer Campaign Coordinator in Norfolk, tells us about the obstacles she’s faced when going to job interviews, her struggles with Access to Work, and what she thinks needs to change.
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Tackling ignorance
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- Monday, 19 December 2016
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- Campaign voice blog
One of our campaign volunteers in the South East shares her experience dealing with lack of understanding from staff in her local Jobcentre. She tells us why she thinks people need to take this chance to tell the Government how blind and partially sighted people can be better supported into work and while in work.
