Swad Dorset

Great News. Our Lorraine got married to Mike! They're spending their honeymoon in a cardboard box to raise funds for @YMCA_Bournemouth #BIGSleepEasy They will be sleeping out tonight to raise awareness for wheelchair accessible housing Support them here tinyurl.com/33mhsj5y

Please keep your fingers crossed for dry weather tomorrow night as I'm fundraising for YMCA Bournemouth. I'll be sleeping outside in my wheelchair and a cardboard box! Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/lorraine-…

Inspiring presentation by Lorraine Stanley on the challenges faced by people with disabilities when accessing sexual health services. #BASHH2025

I have arrived! Really looking forward to learning a lot at @BASHH_UK Conference today! #SexualHealth

SWAD has been nominated for 1 category, Community Organisation Award for Disability. lnkd.in/eUvzWi3w If you like what we do, please show your support by voting for us. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has taken the time to vote so far!

I've been nominated in 2 separate categories, Positive Role Model for Disability, and Positive Role Model for Gender. lnkd.in/eKjZ6Hie

Some of you know that I've been nominated for not one, not two, but three National Diversity Awards. Voting for nominees for the National Diversity Awards 2025 has now been extended and is STILL OPEN until midday on 21st May!

National Diversity Awards: Link to vote for me is below. I've been nominated in 2 categories, Positive Role Model for Disability, and Positive Role Model for Gender. Voting closes at 3 pm today! nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/awards-2025/no…

They are Positive Role Model for Gender; Positive Role Model for Disability; and Community Organisation Award for Disability. If you like what we do, please show your support by voting for us by 3pm today. Links below:

Lorraine Stanley Hi All, I've been nominated for 2 separate National Diversity Awards, and SWAD has been nominated for 1!

**SIGNED COPIES** of Who Wants Normal? are now available to pre-order online from @FiveLeavesBooks Five Leaves are my local indy bookshop and will post nationwide (and FREE to housebound and low income customers). Get yours here: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/who-wa…

. @GWRHelp, had an assistance fail today when no one came to get me off my 7:57a from Paddington at Bristol Temple Meads. I booked ramp assistance with @PassAssistance weeks in advance. Pls file a complaint for me.

To all the Motability moaners, this little fact from @TransportForAll that only 2% of train stations in the UK are step free to the train goes some way to explain Motability. Driving or being driven is the only choice for too many disabled people.

@DWPgovuk I'm a chronically ill person trying to get back into work. The beaurocratic processes the DWP/government insist on only keep claimants stressed (esp PIP), leading to poorer health and SLOWER return to work (if possible at all). NHS must be improved and properly funded first.

@DWPgovuk The DWP needs to 'butt out'. These are PHYSIOLOGICAL HEALTH issues. Fund physiological research into #longcovid, #chroniclyme and #myalgicencephalomyelitis NOW.

@DWPgovuk Be lovely if this project had been frosted by an actual disabled person. As someone who works in accessibility & inclusive working practices, one of many disabled people who do the same, this is the epitome of for us not with us or by us. Wasted opportunity.

@DWPgovuk Are you going to meet members of Disabled People’s Employee Networks? We’ll tell you what a struggle it is to even get an assessment from Access to Work. Latest stats is 40 week wait, which is totally unacceptable and they have reduced what support they will offer employers now.

Merry Christmas 🎁

I’ve just voted for 'Don't Hold Back' by @scope in the @SmileyCFA You should view and vote here too smileycharityfilmawards.com/films/dont-hol… #CharityFilmAwards #cfa25 #charity