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Spring Newsletter 2025

A Blue Plaque dedication that has been recoloured pink and the words reimagined by Difference North East

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Have a read of what we’ve been doing for the last couple of months in our spring 2025 newsletter.

We invite you to look at our new website! We have put in some new resources like our
Disability Benefit Cuts template letter to write to your MP.
There is news about our campaigns, and there are loads of new blogs like
Climate Justice Blog.
Test it out and see what you think. Let’s make our digital space as inclusive as our campaigns!

We got funding for a Disability Rights Policy Officer (Part-Time)
Photograph of Yozza Hughes, character from boys from the black stuff sitting at a bus stop with the word GIZZA JOB in red letters. Disability Rights Policy Officer North East

We are grateful to the Millfield House Foundation, a local funder that wants progressive policy change in the area. Thanks to them, we are able to recruit a policy officer on a half-time basis for two years. Join our fight for equal rights, an end to discrimination and changing perceptions of disability.

“Work flexibly with a team of disabled campaigners driving real policy change”.
Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2025 – 12:00 | Apply now:
Link to job advert
Circular logo of illustrated symbols of people. Central is the wheelchair symbol. Around the side is text that reads “members make the difference”, “Difference North East”.

Members Make the Difference

More in-person (and online) discussions are coming up throughout the North East! Keep a lookout for them!
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.

Housing Crisis Exposed

“Only 1 accessible home for every 119 disabled people in the North East”: our members revealed shocking gaps in housing policy at our recent forum. Key takeaways:

  • Profit over people: Developers lobby against accessibility standards like M4(2).
  • Energy poverty: Disabled households face crippling costs due to poor insulation and lack of solar solutions.
  • Social housing fails: “Even wheelchair users can’t jump the queue for adapted homes”. Read these powerful stories →
    Members Talking Disability Housing.


There is a whole host of other things to find out about … Check out the news & blogs to find out what we’ve most recently been doing 

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