James Watson-O'Neill
@jwatsononeill.bsky.social
Activist
Chief Executive of Sense
Trustee of National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
Non Executive Director at SW London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust
Views my own
Chief Executive of Sense
Trustee of National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
Non Executive Director at SW London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust
Views my own
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
Speaking at our event @jwatsononeill.bsky.social says that while the health and disability benefit reforms are now moving into technical weeds, the over-riding feeling from disabled people is that they are terrible, and that conversations with Ministers haven't made them feel any less terrible...
May 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Speaking at our event @jwatsononeill.bsky.social says that while the health and disability benefit reforms are now moving into technical weeds, the over-riding feeling from disabled people is that they are terrible, and that conversations with Ministers haven't made them feel any less terrible...
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
The Government's announced shake up of disability & health-related benefits has been hugely controversial. But where are these reforms heading?
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social will discuss w/ Stephen Brien, @jwatsononeill.bsky.social Richard Clifton & @louisemurphy.bsky.social
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@ruthcurtice.bsky.social will discuss w/ Stephen Brien, @jwatsononeill.bsky.social Richard Clifton & @louisemurphy.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/dmZ7uDJ
May 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Government's announced shake up of disability & health-related benefits has been hugely controversial. But where are these reforms heading?
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social will discuss w/ Stephen Brien, @jwatsononeill.bsky.social Richard Clifton & @louisemurphy.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/dmZ7uDJ
@ruthcurtice.bsky.social will discuss w/ Stephen Brien, @jwatsononeill.bsky.social Richard Clifton & @louisemurphy.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/dmZ7uDJ
Please can I ask for your help?
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
May 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Please can I ask for your help?
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
We are working on the future of @sensecharity.bsky.social but we don’t want to do that on our own
I want to know what you think!
Please complete our 2 minute survey
forms.office.com/e/E6ngg1HPVX
Grateful to @mencap.org.uk and @jonsparkes.bsky.social for convening a meeting today with government ministers to feed back on their green paper
At @sensecharity.bsky.social we are very concerned about the cuts overall, especially the impact on disabled people with complex needs who may never work
At @sensecharity.bsky.social we are very concerned about the cuts overall, especially the impact on disabled people with complex needs who may never work
April 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Grateful to @mencap.org.uk and @jonsparkes.bsky.social for convening a meeting today with government ministers to feed back on their green paper
At @sensecharity.bsky.social we are very concerned about the cuts overall, especially the impact on disabled people with complex needs who may never work
At @sensecharity.bsky.social we are very concerned about the cuts overall, especially the impact on disabled people with complex needs who may never work
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
Happy Sign Language Week! 🎉
Sign Language is more than words—it’s culture, history & belonging.
Get involved:
🔹 Go Blue! Fundraise with our pack: signlanguageweek.org.uk
🔹 Donate to Loss to Found & support deaf children
🔹 Share your story with #SLW2025
Sign Language is more than words—it’s culture, history & belonging.
Get involved:
🔹 Go Blue! Fundraise with our pack: signlanguageweek.org.uk
🔹 Donate to Loss to Found & support deaf children
🔹 Share your story with #SLW2025
March 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happy Sign Language Week! 🎉
Sign Language is more than words—it’s culture, history & belonging.
Get involved:
🔹 Go Blue! Fundraise with our pack: signlanguageweek.org.uk
🔹 Donate to Loss to Found & support deaf children
🔹 Share your story with #SLW2025
Sign Language is more than words—it’s culture, history & belonging.
Get involved:
🔹 Go Blue! Fundraise with our pack: signlanguageweek.org.uk
🔹 Donate to Loss to Found & support deaf children
🔹 Share your story with #SLW2025
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
Do you have strong finance skills? Want to make an impact? We’re looking for a treasurer to join our board 👇🏻
We are recruiting a treasurer to join our board of trustees, could it be you?
This is a voluntary role to join SignHealth, a unique, ambitious and inspiring charity, improving deaf people’s health and wellbeing.
signhealth.org.uk/jobs/treasurer-to-join-signhealths-board/
This is a voluntary role to join SignHealth, a unique, ambitious and inspiring charity, improving deaf people’s health and wellbeing.
signhealth.org.uk/jobs/treasurer-to-join-signhealths-board/
Treasurer to join SignHealth's Board - SignHealth
Volunteer as a valued member of SignHealth's board of trustees as our treasurer.
signhealth.org.uk
March 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Do you have strong finance skills? Want to make an impact? We’re looking for a treasurer to join our board 👇🏻
Help us into work, not poverty
Thank you @bigissue.com for the chance to share my views and our evidence from @sensecharity.bsky.social on how these cuts could impact disabled people’s lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
Thank you @bigissue.com for the chance to share my views and our evidence from @sensecharity.bsky.social on how these cuts could impact disabled people’s lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
It's not too late to do the right thing with benefits and welfare, Labour told
Sense warns that cutting disability benefits will plunge more people into poverty, but it’s not too late for Labour to do the right thing.
www.bigissue.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Help us into work, not poverty
Thank you @bigissue.com for the chance to share my views and our evidence from @sensecharity.bsky.social on how these cuts could impact disabled people’s lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
Thank you @bigissue.com for the chance to share my views and our evidence from @sensecharity.bsky.social on how these cuts could impact disabled people’s lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
Congratulations @lucywarnes.bsky.social !
I am so proud and I know that you are and will continue to be an amazing chief executive for @signhealth.bsky.social
I am so proud and I know that you are and will continue to be an amazing chief executive for @signhealth.bsky.social
“I am honoured and thrilled to take on the role of Chief Executive at SignHealth.” - Lucy Warnes @lucywarnes.bsky.social
View full announcement in BSL here 👉 signhealth.org.uk/announcement/announcing-signhealths-new-chief-executive/
View full announcement in BSL here 👉 signhealth.org.uk/announcement/announcing-signhealths-new-chief-executive/
February 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Congratulations @lucywarnes.bsky.social !
I am so proud and I know that you are and will continue to be an amazing chief executive for @signhealth.bsky.social
I am so proud and I know that you are and will continue to be an amazing chief executive for @signhealth.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came to our social care workshop this week.
We heard that so many families with disabled children are in crisis, they’re burnt out and passed around by overstretched professionals.
Services they need don’t exist and the law doesn't work for them.
They deserve far better.
We heard that so many families with disabled children are in crisis, they’re burnt out and passed around by overstretched professionals.
Services they need don’t exist and the law doesn't work for them.
They deserve far better.
February 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to our social care workshop this week.
We heard that so many families with disabled children are in crisis, they’re burnt out and passed around by overstretched professionals.
Services they need don’t exist and the law doesn't work for them.
They deserve far better.
We heard that so many families with disabled children are in crisis, they’re burnt out and passed around by overstretched professionals.
Services they need don’t exist and the law doesn't work for them.
They deserve far better.
Disabled children are being failed by the SEND system. @sensecharity.bsky.social has worked exclusively with @skynewss.bsky.social to reveal the huge challenges families are facing. The government needs to put long-term funding plan in place and simplify the system. news.sky.com/story/almost...
Almost half of parents of children with disabilities struggle to find a school that meets their child's needs
Families are said to be at "breaking point" as they try to navigate the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) system to get their children the help they believe they need.
news.sky.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Disabled children are being failed by the SEND system. @sensecharity.bsky.social has worked exclusively with @skynewss.bsky.social to reveal the huge challenges families are facing. The government needs to put long-term funding plan in place and simplify the system. news.sky.com/story/almost...
I’m really proud to join the board of trustees at NCVO
Our sector is more important than ever and NCVO’s members have such an important part to play in our society
www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-ins...
Our sector is more important than ever and NCVO’s members have such an important part to play in our society
www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-ins...
NCVO Strengthens Board with New Appointments
www.ncvo.org.uk
January 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I’m really proud to join the board of trustees at NCVO
Our sector is more important than ever and NCVO’s members have such an important part to play in our society
www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-ins...
Our sector is more important than ever and NCVO’s members have such an important part to play in our society
www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-ins...
Let’s work together to try and find a solution.
The most important consideration is for the disabled people that @vodgmembership.bsky.social members support.
Disabled people deserve the opportunity to live great lives.
www.vodg.org.uk/resource/cor...
The most important consideration is for the disabled people that @vodgmembership.bsky.social members support.
Disabled people deserve the opportunity to live great lives.
www.vodg.org.uk/resource/cor...
Cordis Bright and VODG | New Report on Impact of the Budget on Disability Charities
VODG commissioned independent analysis by Cordis Bright on the impact of the budget on VCSE organisations providing disability care and support.
www.vodg.org.uk
December 16, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Let’s work together to try and find a solution.
The most important consideration is for the disabled people that @vodgmembership.bsky.social members support.
Disabled people deserve the opportunity to live great lives.
www.vodg.org.uk/resource/cor...
The most important consideration is for the disabled people that @vodgmembership.bsky.social members support.
Disabled people deserve the opportunity to live great lives.
www.vodg.org.uk/resource/cor...
Thank you @signature.org.uk for this honour
I feel especially proud to be in the company of @aud2526.bsky.social who has achieved so much for deaf people, particularly her amazing work on the BSL Glossary Project
Thank you @signhealth.bsky.social colleagues!
www.signature.org.uk/2-new-induct...
I feel especially proud to be in the company of @aud2526.bsky.social who has achieved so much for deaf people, particularly her amazing work on the BSL Glossary Project
Thank you @signhealth.bsky.social colleagues!
www.signature.org.uk/2-new-induct...
2 new inductees into the Signature Hall of Fame - Signature
Celebrating the efforts of James Watson O'Neill and Dr Audrey Cameron and their dedicated contribution to accessibility for those in the deaf community
www.signature.org.uk
December 13, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Thank you @signature.org.uk for this honour
I feel especially proud to be in the company of @aud2526.bsky.social who has achieved so much for deaf people, particularly her amazing work on the BSL Glossary Project
Thank you @signhealth.bsky.social colleagues!
www.signature.org.uk/2-new-induct...
I feel especially proud to be in the company of @aud2526.bsky.social who has achieved so much for deaf people, particularly her amazing work on the BSL Glossary Project
Thank you @signhealth.bsky.social colleagues!
www.signature.org.uk/2-new-induct...
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
go.bsky.app/9w8hwQD
Finally set up starter pack for deaf charities in UK so far so you can follow their content. Please DM if you need me to add any more here
Finally set up starter pack for deaf charities in UK so far so you can follow their content. Please DM if you need me to add any more here
December 4, 2024 at 12:51 AM
go.bsky.app/9w8hwQD
Finally set up starter pack for deaf charities in UK so far so you can follow their content. Please DM if you need me to add any more here
Finally set up starter pack for deaf charities in UK so far so you can follow their content. Please DM if you need me to add any more here
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think.
Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
December 4, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think.
Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
Reposted by James Watson-O'Neill
Today, SignHealth's Robin Ash met with
@laylamoran.bsky.social MP, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. This was a great opportunity to discuss the importance of lived experience and including deaf people in political decision-making.
@laylamoran.bsky.social MP, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. This was a great opportunity to discuss the importance of lived experience and including deaf people in political decision-making.
December 4, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Today, SignHealth's Robin Ash met with
@laylamoran.bsky.social MP, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. This was a great opportunity to discuss the importance of lived experience and including deaf people in political decision-making.
@laylamoran.bsky.social MP, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. This was a great opportunity to discuss the importance of lived experience and including deaf people in political decision-making.
I’m really proud of this joint work with @signhealth.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social and several other great charities.
Things were meant to change eight years ago.
We need change now.
Things were meant to change eight years ago.
We need change now.
🧵 Inaccessible health information is a risk to patient safety.
Today we delivered a mock hospital appointment letter to Wes Streeting. The important information was missing, to highlight how blind and partially sighted people are receiving health info they can’t read.
#MyInfoMyWay
Today we delivered a mock hospital appointment letter to Wes Streeting. The important information was missing, to highlight how blind and partially sighted people are receiving health info they can’t read.
#MyInfoMyWay
December 2, 2024 at 3:32 PM
I’m really proud of this joint work with @signhealth.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social and several other great charities.
Things were meant to change eight years ago.
We need change now.
Things were meant to change eight years ago.
We need change now.
Kate Boddy is such an inspiring activist. She is making real progress in improving deaf people’s access to healthcare.
She has taken the awful experience of her father’s death and created positive change.
Kate, I salute you!
limpingchicken.com/2024/11/25/k...
She has taken the awful experience of her father’s death and created positive change.
Kate, I salute you!
limpingchicken.com/2024/11/25/k...
Kate Boddy: My campaign for Specsavers to provide BSL interpretation – in my late Father’s legacy – has been successful (BSL)
I’ll never forget the day I started to see my Dad in a different light. It was July 2000, and I was sixteen years old. My Dad took me with him to London to campaign for the recognition of British S…
limpingchicken.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:05 AM
Kate Boddy is such an inspiring activist. She is making real progress in improving deaf people’s access to healthcare.
She has taken the awful experience of her father’s death and created positive change.
Kate, I salute you!
limpingchicken.com/2024/11/25/k...
She has taken the awful experience of her father’s death and created positive change.
Kate, I salute you!
limpingchicken.com/2024/11/25/k...
A joy to be at the VODG AGM today with colleagues from across our membership watching the launch of our new report, in partnership with Collaborate, on reframing commissioning.
We all deserve the chance to live “gloriously ordinary lives”
www.vodg.org.uk
We all deserve the chance to live “gloriously ordinary lives”
www.vodg.org.uk
Homepage
www.vodg.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 5:58 PM
A joy to be at the VODG AGM today with colleagues from across our membership watching the launch of our new report, in partnership with Collaborate, on reframing commissioning.
We all deserve the chance to live “gloriously ordinary lives”
www.vodg.org.uk
We all deserve the chance to live “gloriously ordinary lives”
www.vodg.org.uk
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If you have children in a state secondary in London, or work for one, I can come and give a wee careers talk about what's it like working in the VCSE. It's nothing spectacular, but there is always a few lovely young people whose ears prick up when I eulogise about work with purpose.
November 19, 2024 at 2:53 PM
If you have children in a state secondary in London, or work for one, I can come and give a wee careers talk about what's it like working in the VCSE. It's nothing spectacular, but there is always a few lovely young people whose ears prick up when I eulogise about work with purpose.
Yes, I’m biased, but this is a FANTASTIC job!
If you’re looking for the chance to lead an amazing group of people towards achieving real change, look no further!
www.signhealth-ceo.co.uk
If you’re looking for the chance to lead an amazing group of people towards achieving real change, look no further!
www.signhealth-ceo.co.uk
Welcome
www.signhealth-ceo.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Yes, I’m biased, but this is a FANTASTIC job!
If you’re looking for the chance to lead an amazing group of people towards achieving real change, look no further!
www.signhealth-ceo.co.uk
If you’re looking for the chance to lead an amazing group of people towards achieving real change, look no further!
www.signhealth-ceo.co.uk
If you are deaf we’d love to know more about your experience of accessing health services.
It’s a short survey so won’t take long!
signhealth.org.uk/health-wellb...
It’s a short survey so won’t take long!
signhealth.org.uk/health-wellb...
Healthcare Survey - SignHealth
Tell us your experiences of NHS services and help us show how they can better meet the communication needs of deaf people.
signhealth.org.uk
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
If you are deaf we’d love to know more about your experience of accessing health services.
It’s a short survey so won’t take long!
signhealth.org.uk/health-wellb...
It’s a short survey so won’t take long!
signhealth.org.uk/health-wellb...
It’s nice here. Let’s make the world a better place. Together.
November 17, 2024 at 10:15 AM
It’s nice here. Let’s make the world a better place. Together.