• Advocacy, self-advocacy, and money-saving tips during the winter.

• Ann Craft Trust: Safeguarding Adults and Young People at Risk

• Annual health checks

• Planning your travels

Music by: Coma-Media | Pixabay

After many episodes exploring the issues that people with disabilities and sensory needs face, this month we are switching the focus to the carers to coincide with Carers Rights Day 2022.

We ask: who do we mean when we talk about carers? What challenges do they face? What are they entitled to and who is there to help? How did they feel about being clapped for during the pandemic?

Also, find out why our colleague is swimming 1000 lengths for Action for Carers, get an insight on working in social care, and discover what it takes to be an award-winning Shared Lives carer.

Links:

Action for Carers | Supporting carers of all ages across Surrey

Surrey Choices is fundraising for Action for Carers (Surrey) (justgiving.com)

Freewheelers Theatre: an inclusive theatre company - Surrey

Music by: Coma-Media | Pixabay

October 6th was World Cerebral Palsy Day, so we invited Dan to host a show about cerebral palsy. With conversations with Richard Luke from Scope and members of the Surrey Choices community, Dan is here to help you better understand CP and share the experiences and opinions of those who have it. 

For comments or questions or to get involved, email [email protected]

Links

Tromp Entertainment 

Surrey Choices - Every Life, Every Chance - Surrey Choices 

Home | Disability charity Scope UK 

Let's Talk Showbiz with DJ Dan 21.10 by Choices Waves | Mixcloud 

The Employment and Community Support service helps customers with volunteering, work experience and employment for people with support needs (surreychoices.com) 

Volunteering is a great way to connect with and give back to your community. We meet some volunteers and follow the Growth Team at BBC Make a Difference Awards.

Annual conference 2022 - CP Scotland

varb.org.uk

This month, guest host Dexter James explores the topic of wheelchairs. Are our towns geared up for wheelchair users? How are social attitudes changing? How does wheelchair football work? And what do we think about the so-called Tiktok "hack" of getting through airports faster by faking a disability?

Surrey Choices - Every Life, Every Chance - Surrey Choices

For many young people, summer means the Duke of Edinburgh Award! We follow a crew of intrepid youngsters as they take on the DofE challenge as part of our Future Choices programme.

This week on Surrey Voices, Adam meets David Man and the young team of mechanics, and David Catchpole interviews Rachel about the gardening at Longmead.

Surrey Choices - Every Life, Every Chance - Surrey Choices

It's Shared Lives Week! What's Shared Lives, you ask? Adam didn't know either, so he went to meet four families who share their lives with SC Customers.

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Mental Health Week was 9th - 15th May. To mark this, we talk to one Surrey Choices carer who battled lockdown loneliness by visiting people on her bike. We also meet Tash, who runs a Creative Recovery Course.

Surrey Choices Website

Solent Mind Mental Health stats

On Surrey Voices we follow the achievements of people at Surrey Choices, and explore the issues which impact disabled people.

We talk to Michael about enduring stress at work, and meet mental health first-aider Phil Mack.

In Choices Voices, we hear some stressful stories and get some advice about de-stressing.

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