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     Consumer research for older and disabled people  

June 2015
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Rica News
 
Help Rica help Google 
Google's Disabilities Impact Challenge is an open invitation to build awareness, identify solutions to create universal access for the 'one billion people that society is not designed to serve'.  Find out more about the Google Impact Challenge here. Rica is keen to apply, so please get in touch with your ideas for partnership working: email Rica here.

  

Mobility Roadshow 

Come and visit us on Stand 96 at this year's Mobility Roadshow from Thursday 25th to Saturday 27th June 2015 at Donington Park.  

The Roadshow also includes Get Going Live! aimed at young and novice disabled drivers plus, on Friday a Conference about older drivers.  Sign up in advance for test drives at the Mobility Roadshow website here.  



The uniqueness of Rica 
Rica has the following mobility information you can't find anywhere else in the world, as far as we know:

   

Concerned about wheelchair services? 

The campaign, My Voice, My Wheelchair, My Life now has a new website: www.rightwheelchair.org.uk .
Rica's work on powered wheelchairs includes
our national survey of 350 powered wheelchair users and a new practical guide called Getting a powered wheelchair .

Other News
 
Are you in or around London?
In July, 2  new events in London are Choice Unlimited and Planet DeaFantastic Expo: 

Choice Unlimited
Choice Unlimited, the UK-wide roadshow on independent living will be in London at the  University of East London on Wednesday 8th July. Find out more here. Read a guest blog post about choice and control here.

Planet DeaFantastic Expo
Aimed at both Deaf and disabled people, Planet DeaFantastic offers a free day of information on employment opportunities, advice, advocacy and seminars, open from 10.00 am- 4.00 pm at Better Bankside, Bankside, Bankside Community Space, 18 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0FD on Monday 13 July 2015. Find out more details here.
     
Sports Stadia guidelines
Northern Ireland's main disability sports organisation, Disability Sport NI has launched best practice design and management guidelines. Find out more here.


No Voice Unheard, No Right Ignored
This week 15th - 21st June is Learning Disability Week and you can find out more from  Mencap here.   The views of people with learning disability in a response to the Easy Read  Consultation to the Coalition government's Green Paper called 'Making Rights Better and Listening To People' has been published by People First England here.   

Peer support: what is it?
National Voices and Nesta have published a review Peer Support: What Is It and Does It Work?  which found evidence that peer support can help people feel more knowledgeable, confident and happy, and less isolated and alone. 
 
 
Do you need accessible health information?
The RNIB want 20,000 blind and partially sighted people to tell the NHS in what format they need to receive information.
Find out more about the campaign here. 
 


 
I hope you find our newsletter informative. Your comments, suggestions or ideas for future research are always welcome and you can email: [email protected]

Chris Lofthouse, Rica