Learning Disability Week Bed Push Went really well

We met up outside the BBC Radio Station in Coventry to do our bed push in aid of people with learning disabilities having the rights to stay up/out late. We all wore Stay Up Late T-shirts which were sent to us by Heavy Load who started the campaign for Stay Up Late. The media coverage was Central vision, The BBC, Telegraph and Michelle Tennison who is a freelance photographer. We pushed the bed up through the City Centre and along the way we were getting people to sign our petition and giving out leaflets and badges we stopped by Lady Godiva statue and went round speaking to the public to get their support. We then made our way to the Coventry City Council House to meet up with councillors to hand in the report and the petitions we also gave them T-shirts. The report had 10 case studies of people with learning disabilities not being able stay up/out late. Dave Musson has put a story about heavy Load & us on the daily dust. http://bit.ly/WlU1N
Below is a link to our radio interview with Annie Othan BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Learning Disability Week football match was a great success

We met up at the Alan Higgs Centre to watch a football match between a team from Grapevine and Some ex Coventry City players. The match came about because the health buddies had started training session with Paul Reynolds, the disability coach Coventry city football club. It was then decided to have the match in Learning Disability Week some of us were cheerleaders. The team wore Big Lottery T-shirts as they are the ones who funded the Media and Health projects. We drew 6-6, every body enjoyed the match it was good fun. Photos by dave. www.davemussonphotography.com Here is a short video clip

more daily dust stories

We had a great week for learning disability stories in the media. The latest story on the Daily Dust is about our football match against a side representing Coventry City FC. to read it link here: http://bit.ly/46SLhl
We will be putting all the photos and videos online in the next couple of days.

learning disability media success stories

We had a great day yesterday, lots of support from the public; 2 live radio interviews, photographers & reporters following us, and Centralvision camera man following us. Give us the weekend to sort the pictures and they will be posted next week.

Our 3rd rights video is now available click here:http://tinyurl.com/mvhxlb this is our stay up late video please be careful if you have seizures there is a lot of flickering, we have asked for it to be toned down. Still it is a great video. THANKS TO HEAVY LOAD for letting us use their music and good luck at Glastonbury guys.

We have been working with a reporter who has done 4 learning disability stories for learning disability week you can see them at: http://bit.ly/lKmln
http://bit.ly/WlU1N http://bit.ly/gwZZq and http://bit.ly/10gUYu The daily dust website gets 35,000 reader each day and 1.5million a month so lits of people will hear about us- THANKS to DAVE MUSSON.

We played the football match this morning and again we need a few days to sort out photographs and video clips.

Game on

Football Match

Hi everyone just to let you know Grapevine are having a 6 a side football match against ex Coventry City players and coaching staff on Friday 26th June 10:30am at the Alan Higgs Centre. The Grapevine team will be wearing shirts porvided by The Big Lottery Fund.

daily dust good news stories

We have a young journalist working with us and Mencap for learning disability week. So far he has got 2 stories on the online newspage please follow the links:
davemussonhttp://bit.ly/gwZZq

davemussonhttp://bit.ly/10gUYu

videos about rights

We have had the first of our rights videos posted on Central vision for learning disability week; hopefully we will have the other 2 by tomorrow. You can watch them by clicking on the following sites.
Christisne's story is at http://tinyurl.com/n2felf

Rishard's story is at http://tinyurl.com/mf72mm
Wewant to say a big thank you to Christine, Rishard, Mel and Nicolad for doing such a grand job.

As soon as we can we will have them on this site. Please have a look and tell us what you think.

WATS!

Our young person's project WATS (We are all the same) funded by Camelot Foundation had their end of year evaluation event at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday. There was music from Soulful Choir and lots of short videos showing lots about what the project has done.

For more photos visit this website: :__ http://tiny.cc/fq7Yf

Disability week and welsh visitors

Just an update on what the media team is doing on Thursday and on learning disability week, we are having some visitors from Wales on the 18th of June. During learning disabilty week which is next Monday the 22nd of June, we are doing a bed push on the 25th of June which we are pushing a bed from the BBC then walking to the council house and then back to Grapevine. Along the way giving leaflets out and talking to people about it too. The reason why we are doing this campaign is because people with learning disabilities have to go back home because of staff change over and the campaign is called staying up late which is run by a punk band called Heavy Load who are a band with people with learning disabilities and 2 volunteers. On the 26th of June we 're having a six aside football match against ex Coventry City players at a place called the Alan Higgs Centre and there are cheerleaders too. Please make sure you show your support and vote on this site.

training journalists

We went to Manchester to talk to a group of 16 journalist students, about the media and learning disability. We asked the students what they thought a learning disability might mean to them. We split into 2 groups then me and Lynne were interviewed by the students, it was really good to have the chance to get my point across and be listened too. I would go and do it again,

That is all for now
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