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Tackle the topics and issues related to the work we do with this hub of news articles about Difference and disability rights in the North East. 

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Recruiting Disability History Month. An image of a female wheelchair user. She is wearing a red dress and is chairing a meeting.

Help Shape Disability History Month in the North East! We’re Recruiting!

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January 27, 2026
Your Access to Work Story. Graphic image of disabled people in the work place. the word "access" is repeated over and over as an overlay.

We Want to Hear Your Access to Work Story

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January 13, 2026
A colorful collage featuring overlapping protest imagery, banners, and circular date markers reading “1971,” “1980,” “1987,” “1999,” “2011,” and “2021.” A central figure holds a sign that reads “Cuts Will Kill — I am disabled not disposable.” Other visible text includes “Justice Not Charity” and “Block Telethon.” The artwork uses bold purples, yellows, blues, and greens with a textured, layered effect symbolizing decades of disability rights activism.

Join Us for Disability History Month 2025

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October 20, 2025

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A collage showing Difference North East community activities with purple, yellow, and teal overlays. Features disabled activists at meetings, protest actions with "Benefit or Bust" and "Cuts Kill" signs, Books with title reading "Ramping Up Rights", and a sign stating "Eat More Warfare". Images show collective organizing, direct action, and disability rights campaigning across the North East.

Annual General Meeting 2025

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October 10, 2025
Our Voice, our Agenda. Stylised graphic showing the Angel of the North in purple with the words “Our Voice, Our Agenda” across its wings, set against a textured purple background. Colourful outlines of the Tyne Bridge and the Tees Transporter Bridge appear below, symbolising the North East of England.

Our Voice Our Agenda: Employment Barriers for Disabled People in the North East – Key Issues and Next Steps

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October 10, 2025
Difference North East Shortlisted for Social Impact: We are thrilled to announce that Difference North East has been shortlisted for Social Impact Business of the Year in the Tees Valley Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Awards 2025.

Difference North East Shortlisted for Social Impact Business of the Year

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October 1, 2025
Autumn Budget Disabled People The chancellor stands holding the red budget box. overlaid people in a crowd holding protest signs that read "THESE CUTS WILL KILL" and "PIP = 0% FRAUD," with a purple tint over the image.

Add your name: Tell the Chancellor disabled people must not pay the price in the Autumn Budget

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October 1, 2025
Minister Responds All-Day Bus Access. A bus in front of the angel of the north.

Minister Responds: The Fight for All-Day Bus Access Continues

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September 23, 2025
Disabled climate action forum: A cup of coffee with plant Earth inside with the writing DCAF on it

Disabled climate action forum: A Cup of DCAF?

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September 22, 2025
Community event promoting Cleveland Police & Crime Plan 2024–2029 highlighting priorities such as improving safety and tackling Cleveland Disability Hate Crime, with Difference Members standing beside awareness banner and with PCC Matt Storey

Shaping Cleveland’s Disability Hate Crime Strategy

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September 22, 2025
All day Buss pass - Access all hours! Too Late to be fair! An image of the speaker of the House of Commons speaking as result were read out. On the right a digital image of the angel of the north in gatehead. on the left a logo saying "im on board, access to the day, straightway"

Too Late To Be Fair: The Simple Question of All-Day Bus Access

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September 19, 2025
True Cost of Gluten-Free Living. Collage of images from the BBC segment about the NHS consultation. Image is colourise yellow, blue and purple.

How a Proposed NHS Change Shows the True Cost of Gluten-Free Living

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September 16, 2025
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A man is sitting on bench with his dog. He is wearing dark glasses and is holding a white cane in his right hand.

A Landscape for Everyone

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March 10, 2023
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A collage highlighting barriers to accessible housing. The background features a residential building with ramps, overlaid with a purple hue. At the bottom, members of the Labour Party are celebrating a general election victory, holding flags and cheering. On the right, a graphic of a wheelchair user is depicted in front of chained stairs with a lock, symbolizing inaccessibility

Access Denied – Demand Accessible Housing! In the North East, Only One Accessible Home is Planned for Every 119 Who Need Them!

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July 16, 2024
A set of keys with a small house keyring

#AccessDenied to Housing. Read the Letter to Government!

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July 16, 2024
Text reads " The Renters Reform Bill aimed to: -End no-fault evictions -Ensure decent home standards -Allow tenants to keep pets -Ban discrimination against families and benefit recipients."

80,000 at Risk as Renters Reform Bill Stalls

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May 31, 2024
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Community event promoting Cleveland Police & Crime Plan 2024–2029 highlighting priorities such as improving safety and tackling Cleveland Disability Hate Crime, with Difference Members standing beside awareness banner and with PCC Matt Storey

Shaping Cleveland’s Disability Hate Crime Strategy

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September 22, 2025
Collage of disabled activists and disabled people protesting welfare reforms and gathering in Difference NE community events, overlaid with the words "Department for Work & Pensions" in bold black letters. Some protest signs read “THESE CUTS WILL KILL” and “PIP = 0% FRAUD”. The image is tinted purple and promotes solidarity and resistance in response to the Universal Credit Bill.

Reflecting On The Universal Credit Bill And Why We Now Must Rest To Resist

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July 17, 2025
Hartlepool Disability Rights: A group of twelve people stand together, smiling, in front of a white wall at an indoor event. They are of varying ages and genders, some using mobility aids.

“We Want What You’ve Got”: Hartlepool’s Rights Fight

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June 10, 2025
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A digitally manipulated image features a protest sign with bold, handwritten-style text reading 'NO MORE DEATHS FROM BENEFIT CUTS.' The background is a collage of people engaged in various types of work, including wheelchair users and standing individuals. The image has a glitch-like effect with blue, purple, and green tones.

Disabled Person looking for employment? Nothing is more broken than the DWPs own find a job system.

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March 11, 2025
Abstract digital artwork of urban housing, with a mix of high-rise flats and terraced houses in bold purple, blue, and yellow tones. Represents members talking disability housing and accessibility challenges in the built environment.

Members Make the Difference: Talking Disability & Housing

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February 28, 2025
Christopher Hartworth

People’s Stories: My Journey into Disability

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February 12, 2025
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Real Stories Shape Employment: A heavily distorted images showing disabled people in various work settings. The image has significant digital glitching effects with purple and cyan colour shifts, horizontal scan lines, and pixelated artifacts that obscure details. The corruption creates a halftone dot pattern overlay throughout, giving it a degraded VHS or digital transmission error aesthetic.

Real Stories, Real Change. Help Shape Better Employment Support in the North East

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January 13, 2026
Stylized illustration using a halftone dot pattern effect. The center shows an empty purple chair symbolizing MPs who didn't attend the welfare reform meeting. On the left are stacked yellow coins marked with pound sterling symbols representing proposed benefit cuts. On the right is a teal-colored protest sign reading 'THESE CUTS WILL KILL.' The image conveys the stakes of welfare reform and political absence.

Driving Difference 2024-25

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January 12, 2026
Insight Impact Disability History Month

From Insight to Impact: Disability History Month 2025 Across the North East

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December 19, 2025
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Budget 2025 Disability North East

Budget 2025 Disability North East: Fix the Systems, Not the Rules – What This Week’s Budget Means for Disabled People

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December 1, 2025
Our Voice, our Agenda. Stylised graphic showing the Angel of the North in purple with the words “Our Voice, Our Agenda” across its wings, set against a textured purple background. Colourful outlines of the Tyne Bridge and the Tees Transporter Bridge appear below, symbolising the North East of England.

Our Voice Our Agenda: Employment Barriers for Disabled People in the North East – Key Issues and Next Steps

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October 10, 2025
Three colleagues are at work, they are smiling and talking.

Have you booked your Disability History Month speaker yet?

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October 7, 2025
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