An event is set to be held in Salford to help ensure ensuring that people with disabilities in Salford can live full and active lives in their community.
The Salford Disability Forum are a charity organisation that have been running since 2003 and support disabled people from a one-to-one basis right through to consultations with local authorities.
The forum cover areas such as the health, council and other services to help provide the voice of disabled people in terms of conversations and consultations – and will be running their first event since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The organisation has been together since 2003 and aimed to enable people with disabilities to gain and keep their independence; to increase their knowledge of local services available; to reduce isolation of people with disabilities.
As well as allow people to have voice; to provide advocacy and information; to support volunteering opportunities; to work with other organisations and form strategic partnerships.
The group have also worked together for over twenty years to promote the rights of people with disabilities to be involved in decision making about their lives and have input on what goes on in Salford.
The event on Thursday 6 March will be the first meeting of 2025 and will allow families to come together for the first time since before the pandemic.
Salford Disability Forum Admin, Andy Higgins, said: “The forum hasn’t run big open forum meetings for quite some time, since before COVID.
“This is the first one that we’re running on Thursday, which is open to disabled people, people with a long-term health condition their friends and families.
“The meeting on Thursday is to kind of re-establish what Salford Disability Forum has been doing, what it does, generally,” Andy continued.
The Salford Disability Forum will be held from 1pm-3pm at Eccles Library, Eccles Gateway on Thursday 6 March and will allow friends, families, and members of the community to come together and support each other.
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