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Alex Brooker 2018’s most influential disabled person
Alex Brooker’s TV career famously began with a job as a presenter as part of Channel 4’s coverage of the 2012 Paralympics. Originally a journalist for the Liverpool Echo and the Press Association, he didn’t expect his TV break to last beyond the 2012 games. “I always expected I’d end up doing a...
Power 100 nominations flood in
Nominations are open for the Power 100 List 2019 edition, and they have been flooding in. We’re getting nominations from all over the country for people, representing a wide range of activities. Our annual celebration of Britain’s most influential disabled people is becoming more widely recognised...
Who is Britain’s most influential disabled person? Nominations open today
The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 List opens for nominations today (Monday 3 December). You can nominate any individual, disabled or living with an impairment, who is working to break the stigma around disability, to create a more accessible and inclusive world. Appropriately, nominations...
Shaw Trust Lights Up Purple and Opens Nominations for 2019 Disability Power 100
#PurpleLightUp – celebrating disabled people’s contributions This year Shaw Trust publisher of the Disability Power 100, is joining organisations across the world by turning purple on Monday 3 December to celebrate the contributions of disabled people as employees and consumers. What’s more, Shaw...
Disability Power 100 list 2018 reveals most influential disabled people in the UK
The full Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 List can be found on www.disabilitypower100.com/. Artists, bloggers, entrepreneurs, sports stars and many more rubbed shoulders at last night’s (Wednesday 17 October) launch of the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 List 2018. Alex Brooker, journalist,...
Disability Power 100 role models
We spoke to two of our trainees at Palmer Gardens (opens in a new window or tab), our social enterprise which provides training and employment to young disabled people to find out about their role models, what they would like to do when they grow up, and what they thought of the Shaw Trust...
