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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 14d

This #NationalFitnessDay we wanted to spotlight the experiences of our Sounding Board members, and what fitness means to them as Disabled people.

First up is Rachel, talking about fell-running and mental health.

'I started with what I knew and enjoy!'
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What is Fitness to Disabled People? Rachel's Story - Get Yourself Active

As part of National Fitness Day, we wanted to spotlight Disabled people’s experiences of activity and sport – today we're hearing from Rachel!

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 14d

This #NationalFitnessDay we wanted to spotlight the experiences of our Sounding Board members, and what fitness means to them as Disabled people.

First up is Rachel, talking about fell-running and mental health.

'I started with what I knew and enjoy!'
getyourselfactive.org/story/what-i...

Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 23d

Living in the Bedfordshire area?
Be Active Bedfordshire have new roles available - Senior Relationship Manager, Insight & Impact Officer and Physical Activity Clinical Champion.
They welcome applications from people with diverse experiences and backgrounds.
www.beactivebeds.co.uk/careers-and-...

Careers & Jobs

Join the team at Be Active Beds

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 27d

💸Cash4Clubs Funding available!

They aim to get small grants of £2,000 to sports clubs that need it, especially those working to engage adults from marginalised backgrounds, such as Disabled people. The funding is unrestricted!

Deadline: 8th Dec. 2025
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Cash4Clubs – Sported working with Flutter to fund grassroots sport across the UK and Ireland - Sported

Cash4Clubs Since 2008, Flutter UKI has donated over £6.5million to community sports clubs through the Cash4Clubs programme, helping thousands of people across the UK and Ireland by ensuring they have ...

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · 29d

"Our government bears a fundamental duty to safeguard protected minorities and those at risk in our society. If there is even a hint of uncertainty regarding the potential ramifications of this legislation on their well-being, it cannot proceed." - Rachael Ross, founding member of the NDSPG

Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨NEWS🚨

As the Assisted Dying Bill faces its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday, we have signed The National Down Syndrome Policy Group's an open letter - peers must listen to Disabled people's concerns about the bill.

Read the letter here👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/assiste...

Assisted Dying Bill's Second Reading: House of Lords Must Respond to

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Sep 4

💰Funding opportunity from Go! London

🏓Does your grassroots organisation delivering physical activity opportunities for underserved Londoners aged 4 -24? You could get a grant of up to £40,000!

Deadline: 15th Sep, 5pm

Learn more👇
golondon.org.uk/foundation/

Foundation Round 4 Now Open!

Application Guidance First launched in 2023, the Foundation Fund is Go!

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨'Protect benefits to ensure Disabled people can be active'

Article by @activityalliance.bsky.social on the Activity Trap: the fear that increased activity could impact vital social security payments including PIP.

Protect benefits, protect activity. www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/10090-p...

Protect benefits to ensure disabled people can be and stay active

Our insight continues to show disabled people face a range of challenges when engaging in sports and regular physical activities.

www.activityalliance.org.uk

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨NEW REPORT🚨
The Impact of Universal Credit Bill on Disabled People's Access to Physical Activity

77% of people we polled use their LCWRA benefits to pay for physical activity - benefit cuts will have devastating public health impacts.

Full report👇 getyourselfactive.org/resource/uc-...

Impact of Universal Credit Bill on Disabled People's Physical Activity - Get Yourself Active

GYA's new report into the health impacts of the Government's Universal Credit Bill on Disabled people, our access to physical activity and public services.

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 10

We are devastated to hear the Government's Universal Credit Bill has gone through. This will halve the UC health element for thousands of Disabled people, taking away £3,000 a year when they already cannot afford essentials.

Disabled lives are more than numbers on a spreadsheet.

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 8

Ahead of Wednesday's vote, we'll continue our campaigning to get the Government to #BinUCBill, which would cut the Universal Credit health element in half, from £416 to just over £200.

Disabled peoples' lives are not a cost-cutting exercise!

Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 26

Following the launch of our report 'The Impact of Welfare Cuts on Disabled People and Access to Physical Activity', we were in Parliament yesterday speaking to MPs about the importance of resisting these benefit cuts.

📊Read our full report here: getyourselfactive.org/impact-of-we...

Image of MPs and GYA team members standing in a committee room with the GYA report in their hands

Image of GYA members and Parliamentarians sitting around the committee table in discussion

‘The Impact of Welfare Cuts on Disabled People and Access to Physical Activity’ A get yourself active response to the welfare reform green paper - front page of our report on the table in parliament

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 4

📝Designing the Future of Physical Activity Together

For #CoProWeek2025, our co-production lead, Liddie Bone, takes us through the importance of supporting Disabled people to be physically active - led at the helm by Disabled voices and experiences.

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Designing the Future of Sport and Physical Activity Together

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 3

When done right, co-production can be hugely empowering for us.

When we are given a voice in decision-making, everyone wins!

💬Hear Rachel, a member of our co-production Sounding Board, about how this process built up her self-esteem #CoProWeek2025

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 2

When services are genuinely co-produced, they work better, because co-produced solutions make the most of the shared expertise of the professionals and the people who have direct experience of using them.

Working in partnership can only be positive! getyourselfactive.org/guide/a-simp...

What it takes to co-produce well - Get Yourself Active

This practical guide, explains how to make the most of Co-production to produce better services and products.

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨Disabled man lost his PIP after being filmed by DWP at his cricket club🚨

It's deeply concerning that Disabled people face punishment for being active.

We must resist the welfare reform bill that will only make the DWP more harmful!
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Why are Disabled People Still Punished for Being Active? - Get Yourself Active

News like this explains the Activity Trap, a phenomenon where Disabled people do not engage in sports for fear of having their benefits removed.

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's co-production week! An opportunity to learn more about how to design and develop things with lived experience at their forefront.

Here's Rachel, a member of our co-production group, talking about why it's so important! #CoproductionWeek

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 27

⚽️Referee course for people with dyspraxia!

📅Monday July 28th
📍The Portland Centre, Nottingham
⏰10am - 6pm

Find out more: t.co/Oncl1kZ810

Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 27

We reject the Government's 'concession' that would create a two-tier disability benefits system.

It is not a concession to have a system where future generations of Disabled people receive less support than Disabled people today. The only concession we accept: kill the bill!

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 Joint statement: Unacceptable “concessions” on the disability cuts MUST be rejected.

Signed by @justtreatment.org, @nsunnews.bsky.social, @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social, Crips against Cuts, Mad Youth Organise and Taking the PIP.

👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/unaccep...

As disability rights organisations and grassroots campaigns, we are voicing our united and absolute opposition to the apparent concessions offered by the government on their proposed disability cuts.

We know that for many, including the MPs who took a principled stand by supporting the reasoned amendment that would have killed this bill, the government's offer looks like a win.

But we have been dealing with the benefits system for years and we know the potentially lethal effects the concessions being reported will have.

As Disabled people, we will not accept a Bill that condemns future generations of Disabled people to devastating cuts in their vital support in order to avoid that fate ourselves. Rather than fixing this Bill's dangerous attack on Disabled people, these concessions will introduce a new and cruel inequality into our communities. They will condemn young Disabled people, and those yet to be Disabled, to a future of poverty, hardship and worsening health. Not to mention those unable, or yet to apply due to how taxing the process of proving your eligibility is.

We are absolutely clear that no amount of "concessions" will make this government Bill acceptable. Any and all cuts made to the already limited support Disabled people rely on - both now and in the future - must be resisted.

Disabled people have a long history of solidarity with each other and other communities - it has been essential to our survival. The desperate attempts by the Prime Minister and his whips to buy votes by selling future Disabled people out - attempting to divide our community - will not work.

We know these "concessions" have only come about because of the tidal wave of resistance created by Disabled people and our allies over the last couple of months. They underestimated our power, and now they are underestimating our strength of solidarity.

We know the MPs who listened to us, who have stood with us against these cuts to PIP and Univ

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great to see Sky News coverage of our poll conducted that shows only 27% of the British public support the Government's benefit cuts.

This is a reckless plan that marginalises Disabled further with negligible public support - it's time to kill the bill!

news.sky.com/story/politi...

Politics latest: Our politics team answer your welfare questions - as PM bids to see off growing rebellion

Keir Starmer has returned to the Commons from international summits to a burgeoning backbench rebellion threatening to kill his welfare reforms. The PM has hinted concessions could be on the way, but ...

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 26

Following the launch of our report 'The Impact of Welfare Cuts on Disabled People and Access to Physical Activity', we were in Parliament yesterday speaking to MPs about the importance of resisting these benefit cuts.

📊Read our full report here: getyourselfactive.org/impact-of-we...

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 26

We spoke on LBC News today about our newly released polling results that found the public overwhelmingly DO NOT support the benefit cuts.

It's not about concessions, the bill needs to be gone.

Read our report into the impact of cuts on physical activity: getyourselfactive.org/impact-of-we...

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 26

Read our full report on the impact benefit cuts will have on Disabled people and our right to physical activity! getyourselfactive.org/impact-of-we...

Get Yourself Active Launches New Report 'The Impact of Welfare Cuts on Disabled People and Access to Physical Activity' - Get Yourself Active

Get Yourself Active have released an report into the impact of the Government's proposed benefit cuts on Disabled people's access to physical activity.

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨BREAKING 🚨

Our new polling finds overwhelming majority of British public reject REJECT cuts and will increase pressure on the NHS

💥51% say of PIP recipients say they would be less active upon losing their payments💥

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/public-...

Public Reject Benefit Cuts and Believe They Will Increase Pressure on

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

New polling from @getyrselfactive.bsky.social reveals only 27% of the public supports the Government's benefit cuts

👉49% of the public say that cutting benefits will make the health of Disabled people worse

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/public-...

Public Reject Benefit Cuts and Believe They Will Increase Pressure on

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Get Yourself Active @getyrselfactive.bsky.social · Jun 25

More than 120 Labour MPs have rebelled against the Government's benefit cuts, signing an amendment aiming to kill the bill.

This is an important step in a resistance against these damaging cuts - testament to the tireless campaigning of Disabled activists!

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