Chatty Cafe Sessions July, August and Sept 2025

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Please feel free to join Disability Equality and topic-specific Guest Speakers for our upcoming Peer Support Sessions: Chatty Café! All sessions will take place at the Casual Cafe in the Community Hub, and, take place on dates of observance relevant to each session. Free-to-attend; carers, support, friends and family always welcome. Join us for our Peer support sessions (Chatty Cafe) with Guest Speakers Connecting society Peer talking Supportive environment All sessions to take place in the Casual Cafe at DENW Community Hub, 23-25 Sedgewick Street, Preston, PR1 1TP Thursday 17th July 2025 2-3.30pm Friday 1st August 2025 2-3.30pm Monday 18th August 2025 2-3.30pm…

Public Transport travel confidence Session – Photo Blog

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Here’s our photo blog from our recent Workshop-follow-up Travel Session, as part of our engagement with building Public Transport travel confidence; the day revolved around a return journey to Carnforth from Preston station, and, a group visit to the Carnforth Heritage Centre Museum.     Photo 1 – Group Exercise at Avanti Ticket Machines before Travel – Simulated use of Ticket Machines, using full place names and Rail Shortcodes (in this case CRN for Carnforth), how to apply Railcard Discount, choose how to pay, and access accessibility features of the…

Pride poster, with DENW and CaritasCare logos at the bottom. Striped rainbow background.

Lancashire Disability Pride 2025

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Join us at the 2nd Lancashire Disability pride from 11am-3pm on 10th July 2025 at Preston Flag Market. PR1 2AP. For further information, contact CaritasCare on 01772 732313 or email info@caritascare.org.uk Check out the details of how much fun we had last year at the first one! Preston’s First Ever Disability Pride Day This year,…

Volunteer's Week Activity - Play Your Cards Right 1.jpg: persons present (left-to-right: Stephen Corless (Volunteer), Sarah Gillett (+1 for Volunteer Stephen Corless), Margaret Singleton (Fundraising Volunteer), Robert Rawcliffe (Volunteer), Aksha Attilakumakan (UCLan Placement Medical Student), Amna Bukhari (UCLan Placement Medical Student), Keith Dagger (+1 for Volunteer Margaret Singleton), Mel. Close (CEO), Peter Titterington (Volunteer), Rakhi Amin (Trustee), Des Butler (Reception) and Beth. Moore (Community Hub Development Worker) & attachment 2: Volunteer's Week Activity Group Photo

Volunteer’s Week Celebration at Disability Equality (NW) Community Hub

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This year Disability Equality (NW)’s annual Thank You and Celebration Event for our Volunteers took place in the Community Hub, on Thursday of Volunteer’s Week (5th June 2025). Following each active Volunteer being presented their Certificate of Thanks, the group took part in two rounds of a Play Your Cards Right-styled game, hosted by Mel, supported by Matt. and Beth.; later in the afternoon, following the games, all present were invited to join for a buffet of sweet and savoury foods, including fruit kebabs, quiche, pastries, and fresh fruit.  

from left-to-right, incl. caption: Matt. Dunn, Alan Valentine, Peter Titterington, Shirley Carthy, Becky Rich, and Lauren King (from left-to-right), all standing in front of the Moor Park Tennis Courts and Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory. The group are facing the camera, smiling with thumbs up, on a lightly-cloudy day with a calm, blue sky.

May’s Monthly Monday Wellbeing Walk

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Lots of “M”s in there hey?! Well we did enjoy ourselves! Following a half-mile walk to Moor Park, Preston, starting at the Disability Equality (NW) Community Hub: the group in-attendance chatted and walked on a 2.3 mile circular route along footpaths within the park, stopping to discuss seasonal plants, the Pavillion, the upcoming 100th Anniversary of the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory in June 2027, and ongoing renovations in the parks announced in 2022. The walk concluded with a walk back to the Community Hub for all heading in that direction.   Here’s some photos of our walk… And here’s a photo of a tree we talked about briefly on a moment’s pause during the walk – Matt has submitted photos taken on the day of the roots and bark to identify…

Monday Group Walk Poster

May Wellbeing Walk

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This month’s walk featured a street route beginning at the Disability Equality (NW) Community Hub, to Moor Park, including the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory and Moor Park Pavillion. We met at Disability Equality (NW) Ltd. Community Hub, 23 Sedgwick Street, Preston, PR1 1TP

TryTheTrain: Introductory Workshop

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TryTheTrain: Introductory Workshop Monday 23rd June 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm Disability Equality Community Hub, 23-25 Sedgwick Street, Preston, PR11TP In partnership with Community Rail Lancashire, Disability Equality (NW) Ltd. are pleased to announce that we will be hosting another series of TryTheTrain Workshops, this time taking place from the Community Hub! With the aim of…