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Sensory tennis proves a big hit in helping disabled people get active

Sport England’s funding means national disability charity Sense can expand its programme.

The Independent UK

Woman tells of 'crying at night' as she highlights loneliness of disabled people

Gina Patel, 28, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, has told how people with disabilities often feel like "no one cares" about them as they struggle with loneliness

Daily Mirror

Meet the cash-strapped Brits who face choosing between heating and BREATHING

Sulaiman has so far had just £150 help from the Government – despite charities estimating disabled people are paying £12,000 a year in extra costs

Daily Mirror

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‘It proves he is capable’: the extreme sports offering release for disabled people

From boxing to climbing to sensory tennis, a Sport England grant scheme is transforming the lives of people with complex disabilities

The Guardian - UK

‘I do what’s needed’: extraordinary UK volunteers doing the extraordinary

Despite 1.6 million fewer people in volunteering than five years ago, there are everyday individuals making a difference

The Guardian - UK

Disabled people 'struggle to find work due to lack of support at Jobcentres'

A lack of adequate assistive technology and poor training of Jobcentre Plus staff means people with complex disabilities struggle to use the services, according to a leading charity

Daily Mirror

Academic coaches help students finish community college

Two-year community colleges, which serve many of the students who need the most support, have the lowest completion rates of any kind of university or college

The Independent UK

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Usher syndrome symptoms as Emmerdale's Laura Norton shares children's rare diagnosis

The Kerry Wyatt star shares two children with her former co-star, Mark Jordon

Liverpool Echo

Incredible girl, 8, is carer for her two disabled siblings - and wants to help others

Ivy had won Sense's Young Sibling of the Year award for her advocating for carers' support and next planned to campaign for the government to tackle the issues facing the NHS

Daily Mirror

Mum whose son's disability means he needs room heated to 21C can't afford Christmas

Five years ago Charlie, who Anna described as being a “funny, incredible” man, was diagnosed with a “life limiting” degenerative brain condition called SPG11

Daily Mirror

Irish mum cancels Christmas due to financial pressures of caring for daughter

'Things have been tough'

Irish Mirror

Co Antrim mum cancels Christmas due to financial pressures of caring for daughter

“We are currently sitting with no heating, so the house is freezing and we are living out of food banks”

Belfast Live

Mum of disabled girl needing home heated to 21C due to health condition 'terrified' about rising energy bills

Lincolnshire girl Honey-bea lives with a rare condition called Goltz Syndrome, which means she has severely impaired sight and thin skin and needs a high level of care

Daily Mirror

Mum unable to pay energy bills forced to consider putting disabled daughter in care

Yvette Clements is full-timer carer to her daughter Rosey, a young woman living with athetoid cerebral palsy; a movement disorder caused by damage to the developing brain

Daily Mirror

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Bristol Post

The Bristol mum taking on adventures as her sight deteriorates

Tracey's friends didn't know she was visually-impaired until she started fundraising

Manchester Evening News

Businesses and charities react to Liz Truss' energy price guarantee

Liz Truss announced a new scheme to help ease the cost-of-living crisis

The Independent UK

Disability benefits for millions ‘to be rendered worthless’ by soaring energy bills

Exclusive: Charities warn disabled households are among hardest hit by energy crisis, which could see 91% of their benefits eaten by cost of bills

Daily Record

Seven energy bill bombshell warnings about how rise will impact you today

Ofgem will enforce a new price cap from October 1, with gas and electric bills set to hit £3,500 annually.

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The Independent UK

‘Solidarity tax’ of 1% for all earners needed to raise more energy bill support, says think tank

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must ‘think the unthinkable’ and consider tax rise, says Resolution Foundation

Daily Mirror

7 bombshell warnings TODAY about how energy bills rise will hit you

It's now 24 hours until Ofgem announces the energy bills price cap from 1 October 2022 - and annual gas and electricity bills are set to soar beyond £3,500 a year

The Independent UK

72% of disabled households plunged into debt by cost-of-living crisis – poll

83% of families with a disabled loved one believe the Government is not doing enough to support them, according to a new poll.

Daily Mirror

Buddying scheme provides 'lifeline' to parents with disabled children

A buddying scheme run by charity Sense has been a lifeline for many families and their disabled children who have been socially isolated

Daily Mirror

Disabled woman now housebound as cost of living crisis means she can't charge wheelchair

Jade Cotton, who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and scoliosis, is struggling to cope with soaring electric bills and has been forced to stop charging her electric wheelchair overnight

Bristol Post

Bristol dad and carer says cost of living is a 'constant worry' despite £150 payment

"But the worry pales into insignificance when the alternative is your child dying"

The Independent UK

Disabled households pushed into debt by rising cost of living, charity warns

Government cost-of-living support will only offer temporary relief for disabled people and their family carers, according to the charity Sense.

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