For our final episode of 2025, we have our yearly Christmas special! This year, all of our members answered a couple of questions about Christmas, including what presents they were hoping to get, and their very favourite part about the Christmas holidays. 

We hope that everyone has a great festive season, and a happy New Year. A big thank you for all of your support over the last 12 months. 

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We have a very special episode for you today, because it's the penultimate show of the People First Podcast in 2025! We are talking about a very special topic, Road Safety, with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Vision Zero team! It's a very interesting project and we're really excited to learn more about it, and how road safety measures can impact our local communities. We hope you enjoy the show!

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Today we're talking all about a recent visit from students and teachers of Brooklands, a local specialist school where People First Keighley and Craven is one of the many opportunities for graduating students! Our hosts today are former pupils Tyler, Sarah and Teghan, who asked questions and share their experiences of Brooklands. We hope you enjoy the show and a big thankyou to the students for visiting us and taking part!

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On the People First Podcast today we are doing an episode all about the recent Learning Disability Conference, lead by some of our friends at Mencap and the Active Community Team! Joining us in the studio are community partner Alex Craddock and members Barney and Jason to speak about their roles in the conference, their favourite moments from it, why accessible sport is so important and more! We hope you enjoy the show.

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Today there is a special returning guest in this week's episode of the People First Podcast! We are talking to Andy from Gig Buddies Bradford, who came on the show back in 2023, all about what they have been getting up to in the last 2 years and the plans for their Celebration this week! Members Rebecca and Owen also joined us in the studio to talk about their experiences of Gig Buddies. We hope you enjoy the show!

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On today's episode of the People First Podcast we are talking to a fantastic journalist and producer for the People Fixing the World podcast, William Kremer! William led a session in our office earlier this month about accessible news, and we enjoyed it so much our team took him on a tour of how we create podcasts! This is the episode we recorded to learn more about his amazing work. We hope enjoy the show!

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This week on the People First Podcast, we're talking to a local organisation based in Wakefield called Stride Theatre. Our team got the chance to chat to their Tuesday morning group and the volunteers that support them to learn more about the work Stride does to help make Performing Arts accessible - not just for adults with learning disabilities but all different types of people. It was really amazing getting to see their members talk about their own work with pride. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week we are talking all about the upcoming Inclusion North Charity Awards, celebrating the organisations 20th anniversary! To tell us more about the awards and how they support people with learning disabilities and autism over the last 2 decades is Dawn, a leadership coach working in Yorkshire who has lived experience of learning disabilities. It was very exciting to hear from her about Inclusion North! We hope you enjoy the show.

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Today's episode of the People First Podcast is coming to you live from the Modality health event that we attended earlier this month at Cougar Park in Keighley. We had two new podcasters, Ish and Owen, who went around and talked to guests and Modality health workers to get their feedback on what makes Events like these so important in our community and to get people's thoughts. We even spoke to the Community and Development Lead at Modality Bill Graham. We hope you enjoy the show!

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Today on the People First Podcast we're talking about a very exciting upcoming local event happening across Bradford and Keighley for families and children with SEND needs, and the wider learning disabled community - called SENDiVERSE! To tell us more about, we have Andrea from The Leap joining us in our office today. She'll be explaining what the event is, what we can expect from it and telling us more about what The Leap does. We hope you enjoy the show!

SENDiVERSE is taking place next week from October 27th to November  1st. To learn more about it please visit the Leap's website to see where the events are taking place! https://www.the-leap.org.uk/sendiverse-find-activities

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