Disability Organisations & Ongoing Campaigns
Click below for an overview of which organisations are leading which campaigns:
A-Z of Ongoing Campaigns
Action for Access
This campaign, led by Leonard Cheshire Disability is for an accessible UK. Disabled people are being urged to survey shops, services and transport, and then share findings on the action for access website.
Campaigns Action Groups
Campaigns Action Groups (CAGs) are groups of disabled people who come together to campaign on issues that affect them in their local communities and everyday lives. Group members run the CAGs and decide what they campaign on.
Find out if there is a CAG in your area:
James Harding, Local Campaigns Officer - 07738 329 196 or
Campaigns Muscle Groups
As part of their wider ‘Building on Foundations’ campaign work, The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (MDC) has set up these Regional groups and invites people to join the fight for improved neuromuscular services and access to specialist care.
Disability Discrimination
This can be an everyday experience for people. Scope campaigns with other organisations to address these issues
Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM)
EDCM is a consortium campaign run by four of the leading organisations working with disabled children and their families: Contact a Family, the Council for Disabled Children, Mencap and the Special Educational Consortium. Between them, the campaign partners represent over 770,000 disabled children and young people in the UK.
EDCM was established in September 2006 and continues to campaign to raise the political profile of disabled children and their families within central and local government.
Fast Forward
Whizz-Kidz are calling on the Government to Fast Forward reform of NHS wheelchair provision for disabled children and young people.
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Inclusion and Participation
SCOPE are running several campaigns under this banner, including education, retail facilities and raising awareness of disabled children in books and literature.
Pounds for Parents
This three year campaign aims to improve take up of benefits and other forms of financial support for families with disabled children. CaF wants families to talk to the media about the additional costs of raising a disabled child and help people understand what life is like for families of disabled children.
Social Care and Benefits
Scope is working with other organisations campaigning to defend the key rights and entitlements of disabled people.
Stop the DLA take away
Some of the UK’s most severely disabled and sick children and their families are being denied financial help when they need it most. A child’s Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is stopped after 84 days in hospital and subsequently the parent’s carers allowance is suspended. Contact a family is calling for the rules to be scrapped and are asking that people e-mail their MPs.
Trailblazers
The MDC has set up networks of young disabled people who work together on a national and local level to highlight and address issues that are important to them. For example, they are currently investigating access to cinemas around the country. Join them and become a ‘trailblazer’.
