New project to tackle underrepresentation of disabled people in politics.  New funding of £35,305 will help disabled people participate in politics.    Disabled people, a group which is under-represented within elected offices across Scotland, will now get extra support to help encourage participation and representation. The wide ranging support for increasing disabled people’s representation in politics…

By Sarah Anderson, Green Party Activist, One in Five Ambassador I’m writing this on a day where my health has taken a downwards dip and where I know I’m not going to be able to leave the house. I’m writing this on a week where my local council Renfrewshire have passed the goals of the oneinfive…

By Seumas Skinner, SNP activist. I’d never heard the phrase “Asperger’s Syndrome” before I was diagnosed at high school. I can’t even say I was really aware of Autism or other neurological disabilities then. Like everyone else at school, I just wanted to fit in, and being told that I was medically, genetically and behaviourally…

Kevin Johnson President & CEO Starbucks Coffee Company     Sehr geehrter Herr Johnson Plastik-Strohhalme für Menchen mit Behinderung Es ist bereits länger als einen Monat her, dass Starbucks sein Vorhaben angekündigt hat, bis 2020[1]weltweit auf den Einsatz von Einweg-Plastik-Strohhalmen zu verzichten. Dieses Vorhaben verursachte große Sorgen in der in der Gruppe der Menschen mit…