We're an organisation OF disabled people supporting others to play a full role in society. @BreakthrouUKLtd for policy. Shares not necessarily endorsements.
Joined July 2014
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12 Nov 2025
Manchester Disability Collaborative is excited to invite you to the Disabled People's Assembly on the 4th December 2025. Sign up on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/mancheste…
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8 Oct 2025
The Manchester Disability Collaborative is hiring a new Chair!
Please visit the Breakthrough website for details of the role, and how to apply:
breakthrough-uk.co.uk/job-va…
ALT The Manchester Disability Collaborative is hiring a Chair! The Manchester Disability Collaborative is a partnership of Deaf and disabled people, their organisations and decision makers in Manchester. We coproduce projects to address barriers that Deaf and disabled people face. Our work spans several sectors, and is directed by disabled people's lived experience. We are recruiting for a new Chair for the Collaborative. Please see the Role Specification for more details and how to apply.
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7 Oct 2025
Diverse Works is back! 🌟
Free online sessions helping disabled & neurodivergent job seekers build CVs, interview skills & confidence.
🗓 15 Oct | 4 Nov | 20 Nov
Online
👉 Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/diverse-wor…
#DiverseWorks #InclusiveEmployment #DisabilityInclusion #Neurodiversity
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16 Sep 2025
🎨Access to arts should be a right, not a privilege. So why are so many Deaf & Disabled people locked out of creative spaces?
Make It Together wants to tackle this!
Join our online creative hangout centring Deaf & Disabled people and your experiences👇 creative-lives.org/Event/onl…
ALT Everyday creativity should be for everyone. We are talking with Disabled communities and creative groups to make sure it is. Join us on Zoom Tuesday 14th October 12noon - 1pm Logo in the corner of Make it Together, that has 3 freehand drawn lines to symbolise collective creativity.
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16 Sep 2025
🎨Access to arts and creativity should be a right, not a privilege. So why are so many Deaf & Disabled people locked out of creative spaces?
Make It Together wants to tackle this!
Join our online hangout centring Deaf & Disabled people & your experiences👇 ow.ly/uZRq50WWQ6X
ALT Everyday creativity should be for everyone. We are talking with Disabled communities and creative groups to make sure it is. Join us on Zoom Tuesday 14th October 12noon - 1pm Logo in the corner of Make it Together, that has 3 freehand drawn lines to symbolise collective creativity.
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9 Sep 2025
🚨NEWS🚨
UN Special Rapporteurs on benefit cuts: "We fear that this process may have put fiscal considerations before the duties of the UK [...] under the international human rights instruments it has ratified, with a disproportionate impact on the rights of [Disabled people]"
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights Olivier De Schutter & UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of disabled people Heba Hagrass, have written to UK govt over the reform process related to health and disability benefits in the UK
spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMRe…
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You've got until midnight on Monday the 7th to send in your application.
If you are having difficulties, just email in to let us know it's on its way in the next few days.
GM Disabled People’s Panel launches Feeling Good! Small grants up to £5,000 to support the Mental Wellbeing of Disabled People.
Read our Report: gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/g…
Deadline to apply- Mon 7th July.
tinyurl.com/MHWGDP25
ALT Poster for the grants with sunbeams and drawings of a group of diverse disabled people in a city park with a rainbow hot air ballon in the sky.
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1 Jul 2025
We are recruiting for positions on the CHEM Disabled People's Sounding Board. This is a paid opportunity for a disabled person and/or a Disabled People's Organisation to lend their voice to help shape policy and services in Manchester to be inclusive. Deadline - 18 July 2025.
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24 Jun 2025
Manchester Lived Experience Leaders call on MPs across #Manchester constituencies to vote against the proposals in the Pathways to Work Green Paper. The proposed cuts will prove to have a devastating impact on #disabled people and our society: ow.ly/8i5X50W0Tiu
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19 Jun 2025
#Manchester Lived Experience Leaders call for proposals to cut disability benefits to be scrapped and replaced by a willingness to work with disabled people to create a disability strategy that includes well-informed, fully impact-assessed proposals: ow.ly/TxLz50Wckw3
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19 Jun 2025
READ AND SHARE: a clear & comprehensive briefing by @Dis_PPL_Protest, detailing how the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill endangers disabled people & will shorten lives, especially after parliamentary scrutiny has weakened the legislation: dpac.uk.net/2025/06/briefing…
#VoteNo
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18 Jun 2025
In utter dismay at the Government's benefits bill today.
Utterly ridiculous to claim it is supportive to give 3 months additional payments to those having their PIP taken away... and then what? Do we suddenly stop being Disabled?
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17 Jun 2025
🚨NEWS🚨
15 Labour MPs joined us today to take a public stand and say they are voting NO to disability benefit cuts. More need convincing - we don't think any MP could vote for these cuts with a clear conscience.
📷Photo: David Mirzoeff
disabilityrightsuk.org/news/…
ALT Image of 15 MPs outside Parliament holding DPO Forum placards that say 'I'm voting NO to disability benefit cuts'
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All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty and Inequality recommends withdrawing the proposed cuts to disability benefits in the Green Paper
appgpovertyinequality.org.uk…
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Less than one week left to apply for our CEO job vacancy. It's part time, flexible hours. gmcdp.com/jobs
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Are you a disabled leader committed to disability rights and the Social Model of Disability?
Do you believe in the power of grassroots activism, user-led change and inclusive leadership?
Could you be our new CEO?
gmcdp.com/jobs
#DisabilityRights
#NonprofitJobs
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29 May 2025
Manchester Lived Experience Leaders call on #MPs across #Manchester constituencies to vote against the proposals in the Pathways to Work Green Paper. The proposed #cuts will prove to have a devastating impact on #disabled people and our society: ow.ly/8i5X50W0Tiu
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Breakthrough UK retweeted
We have just published a joint letter with GM Equality Panel members opposing the DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper, please promote it across your networks and media:
Full text and easy read at link
gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2…
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Citizens Advice condemn Green Paper cuts citizensadvice.org.uk/policy…
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15 May 2025
Recently delivered Social Model of Disability training with our trading arm, Equal Edge. 💜
It’s not people’s conditions that disable — it’s the barriers in society. Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation and helped drive change!
#SocialModel #BreakthroughUK #EqualEdge
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15 May 2025
We need your stories!
Two BUK staff are heading to Westminster on Wednesday to speak to MPs about how the cuts will impact disabled people.
Please fill in the below form to share your story or name as someone who opposes these cuts.
forms.office.com/e/wdj1LLbHW…
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