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Parallel Windsor – the festival of inclusivity

This year’s Parallel Windsor event will take place on Sunday 7 July in the grounds of the majestic Windsor Great Park, on the iconic Long Walk.  Parallel Windsor is an annual festival of inclusivity with challenge events for all ages, health conditions and

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The Kings Birthday Honours 2024 logo

Honours for our DP 100 community

Huge congratulations to members of our Disability Power 100 community who have been recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours list. These include 2023 finalist Professor Chloe Orkin who has received an MBE. Chloe is a prominent medical leader (former Chair of the British HIV

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The Social Model of Disability

At Shaw Trust our work is guided by the social model of disability. We also support the identity model, which is closely related to the social model and emphasizes disability as a positive identity.  The social model of disability The social model

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photograph of the winners from 2023 on a stage as a group, they are looking slightly to the right and are in front of a red screen with white writing saying The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100

2024 Shortlist Announced!

This year, the Disability Power 100 received 786 nominations. Well done to everyone who entered. 367 high-quality nominees were shortlisted. These nominees are trailblazers and role models who are making a significant impact on the lives of disabled people in

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Drawing of a man in a half lying pose with his head raised. The style is colourful and reflects Aztec or Mexican styling, the face is colourfully exposed to show the eye, jaw, teeth and brain. There are people who look like trees moving up the figure. The figure has one hand pointing upwards. The colours are bright.

A psychedelic version of Kes

Disability Power 100 finalist, Jason Wilsher-Mills’s new solo show at the Wellcome Collection. Celebrated in the 2023 Disability Power 100, Jason Wilsher-Mills has much to look forward to in 2024. With a new solo exhibition opening at the Wellcome Collection

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Nominations open

The wait is over, the 2024 Disability Power 100 Awards Nominations are open.The awards – fully owned by Shaw Trust and internationally respected – recognise the UK’s most influential disabled individuals and organisations. They celebrate ambition, achievement and impact. For

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Three black and white close up photos of faces. The first face is a Black man with short curly black hair, blue glasses, wearing a green jacket with a bow tie, smiling, stood against a grey background that has names written all over it. The second is a white female with long dark blonde hair. She is wearing a white V-neck jumper off the shoulder to display a Hickman Line on her chest. She is looking straight at the camera. The third is an artist wearing a hat, black spectacles and a beard, looking at his artwork

Differently Enabled prize draw winners announced

“When you look good, you feel good, and when you feel good, you do good.”That’s the motto of Differently Enabled, one of our 2023 sponsors, who we collaborated with to host a Disability Power 100 finalist prize draw.Differently Enabled, who

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