The People First Podcast

We are so exited today to be interviewing an inspiring and celebrated advocate and fundraiser for people with disabilities: it's Jack Marshall! As well as being a hard-working campaigner and fundraiser for both his rare condition of Moebius syndrome and for issues faced by people with disabilities at large (receiving the British Empire Medal for this work!) he has just become a first-time author with the release of "The Boy Who Can Not Smile". Our team learned all about this new book and his amazing journey. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Our guest this week is an a celebrated actress with disabilities on British Soap Operas (Coronation Street, Emmerdale) and comedy TV and radio (Tinsel Girl, I‘m with Stupid) here to share her inspirational story and her love of advocacy: it's Cherylee Houston MBE! We were super excited to chat with her about her incredible career and how she helped to campaign against the government with #TakingThePIP! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast is a Learning Disability Awareness Week special!  Fitting with this year's theme of "Do You See Me", we got the absolute privilege to spend an afternoon with someone who has seen us all from outer space: Hayley Arceneaux! Hayley, a physician at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and went on the Inspiration4 in 2021, making herself one of the few disabled AND the youngest American to go to space! All of us were so excited to get to listen to such an interesting and brave woman who is an inspiration to all of us. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today we have a super-special episode of the People First Podcast, as we celebrate the start of the FIFA World Cup 2026! All of the PFKC Office team have been working hard to collect some fun footie facts about all 48 of the amazing teams taking part in the World Cup that we want to share with you. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We are showing our passion for fashion today on the People First Podcast! Our guest today is social enterprise leader and accessible fashion designer, May Marigold, who does fantastic work with models with various disabilities to make colourful, accessible clothing for different conditions and needs. It was really interesting to get to speak to May and learn more about her work. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Joining us today on the People First Podcast are some members from the group voted "Advocacy Organisation of the Year" at the Inclusion North Awards: People Focused Group! Based in Doncaster, this group helps to provide Peer Support to adults with learning disabilities on lots of different issues. Our team got chatting with them about what the Inclusion North Awards were like, learning more about their work own advocacy, and their plans for the rest of the year! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week we have an exciting interview to get our teeth into, with the disability social and meal group the Buzz Club! They are one part of the local charity CTI 2000, supporting adults with learning disabilities to have a developed social life through group activities and creativity! To tell us more is Marcella, one of the group's support staff, and our member Stephen to talk about their experiences there. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We are getting our groove on this week on the People First Podcast, as our guest is the Artistic Director of the charity Dance United Yorkshire, Helen Linsell! Dance United helps to provide opportunities in dance to people in marginalised communities, supporting lots of local people in and around Bradford. Thank you Helen for joining us! We hope you all enjoy the show.    Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today on the People First Podcast we are talking to two guests from local disability service Exclusively Inclusive, Katie Peacock and Christopher, all about the accessible sport Kin-Ball! Last year we ran a sports session with them and enjoyed it a lot, so our team member Nathan wanted to have them back in to learn more about the sport and the work they do with it. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have a very exciting extra long episode of the People First Podcast for you today, featuring members and support staff that visited us earlier this year from York People First! This is another People First service that works to advocate and support adults with learning disabilities in a few different ways, so it was really interesting to have them in our office to work together and learn more about what they do. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week on the People First Podcast, we are talking to the head of one of the largest organisations in Yorkshire - Purple Patch Arts! CEO Jessica Aldred is joining us in the studio alongside Teghan and Amy, two members of PFKC, to talk to us about what makes Purple Patch so great to be at and about how they use their Purple Match Method and creative work to empower adults with learning disabilities! We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have a very exciting episode of the People First Podcast for you all today! Because in the studio with us is Paul Wilshaw, the Engagement Officer and a fellow podcaster from Mind The Gap! They're a fantastic local theatre group run by and for adults with learning disabilities... but what makes them unique is their original plays about issues relating to people with disabilities! Their organisation was so interesting to learn about, as well as their fantastic advocacy work. We hope you all enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week on the People First Podcast, we are talking to another one of the winners from the 2025 Inclusion North Awards! Our guests today are Tony, Jayne and Sam, learning disability Self-Advocates based in Selby who at the awards last year were given the Gary Stark Citizenship Award.Joining them today is Maria, a staff member from Inclusion North, to tell us more about the work they did to win the award as well as learning more about Inclusion North. We hope you all enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have an exciting and theatrical episode of the People First Podcast for you all today, as we are talking  to one of the oldest theatre groups ran by people with learning disabilities — Firebird Theatre, which is based in the Old Vic in Bristol! Joining us to talk about members Chris, Tina and Dan to tell us more about their time at Firebird, how theatre skills help them to be advocates, and what their show plans are for 2026! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We've got another episode of the People First Podcast for the football fans in the audience! Because we are talking all about Bradford Disability Football Club, a local partner of Bradford AFC that supports adults with learning disabilities with a range of needs to play football! Our member Oliver organised this interview as he plays for the football club, and wanted to talk more about the group. To tell us more about it is one of the Trustees, Andy! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On today's episode of the People First Podcast we're talking about our trips to Cartwright Hall in Bradford to see the 2025 Turner Prize! Four rooms filled with a diverse and colourful set of artworks by four fantastic artists, including this year's winner Nnena Kalu! To hear more about it, we welcomed Ami from Bradford Care Association into the studio, who supported our visits around the exhibit! Thank you for coming on the show Ami, it was great to hear more about the Turner Prize  and other joint projects like Portraits Of Our Time. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week on the People First Podcast we are having a more serious discussion about death, dying and grief. This is a very important topic for us to talk about, so although it can be difficult we do not want to shy away from covering it on our show. Our guest is Karen from Tending 3 Magpies, who offers person-centred care and support for people at the end of their lives, to tell us more about this important work. We hope you enjoy the show. Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast focuses on a fantastic project that some of our members took part in called "Portraits of our Time"! This was a project supported by Bradford 2025 where people were photographed holding something important to them, like an object or a photograph. They then spoke about the object and why it is something that means so much to them.To talk about the project we had Louise the event photographer and Jeanine who helped us on that project and during our first visit to Cartwright Hall to see the Turner Prize in the studio! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today's episode of the People First Podcast features another one of the winners from last year's Inclusion North Charity Awards, the "Charity of the Year" Little SENDsations! We got the chance to speak to their Founders Hayley and Sam to learn more about the work they do to support children and young people and their families with learning disabilities and SEND needs. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast is all about one of the fantastic winners of last year's Inclusion North Awards, celebrating services and organisation that work in different ways to support people with learning disabilities. We are speaking to Paul and Sian from Durham County Council, who work to run Bluebell Apartments that won Provider of the Year! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On this new episode of the People First Podcast, we are talking to our Co-Production friend Wil Quick about his recent work with Bradford Council on the building accessibility project! This is Wil's third time on the show and we are very happy to have him back to chat about working alongside him and Equality Together, as well as get more information about th project! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Welcome back to the People First Keighley and Craven Podcast! For the first episode of Season Five, we have a show we recorded last year with the members of Hope Productions, part of the charity TAPE Community Music and Film! We got the chance to speak to the team all about their work, how it empowers their members with learning disabilities, and learning more about the work we did with them at Leeds University earlier in 2025. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

For our final episode of 2025, we have our yearly Christmas special! This year, all of our members answered a couple of questions about Christmas, including what presents they were hoping to get, and their very favourite part about the Christmas holidays. We hope that everyone has a great festive season, and a happy New Year. A big thank you for all of your support over the last 12 months. Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have a very special episode for you today, because it's the penultimate show of the People First Podcast in 2025! We are talking about a very special topic, Road Safety, with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Vision Zero team! It's a very interesting project and we're really excited to learn more about it, and how road safety measures can impact our local communities. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today we're talking all about a recent visit from students and teachers of Brooklands, a local specialist school where People First Keighley and Craven is one of the many opportunities for graduating students! Our hosts today are former pupils Tyler, Sarah and Teghan, who asked questions and share their experiences of Brooklands. We hope you enjoy the show and a big thankyou to the students for visiting us and taking part!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On the People First Podcast today we are doing an episode all about the recent Learning Disability Conference, lead by some of our friends at Mencap and the Active Community Team! Joining us in the studio are community partner Alex Craddock and members Barney and Jason to speak about their roles in the conference, their favourite moments from it, why accessible sport is so important and more! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today there is a special returning guest in this week's episode of the People First Podcast! We are talking to Andy from Gig Buddies Bradford, who came on the show back in 2023, all about what they have been getting up to in the last 2 years and the plans for their Celebration this week! Members Rebecca and Owen also joined us in the studio to talk about their experiences of Gig Buddies. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On today's episode of the People First Podcast we are talking to a fantastic journalist and producer for the People Fixing the World podcast, William Kremer! William led a session in our office earlier this month about accessible news, and we enjoyed it so much our team took him on a tour of how we create podcasts! This is the episode we recorded to learn more about his amazing work. We hope enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week on the People First Podcast, we're talking to a local organisation based in Wakefield called Stride Theatre. Our team got the chance to chat to their Tuesday morning group and the volunteers that support them to learn more about the work Stride does to help make Performing Arts accessible - not just for adults with learning disabilities but all different types of people. It was really amazing getting to see their members talk about their own work with pride. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week we are talking all about the upcoming Inclusion North Charity Awards, celebrating the organisations 20th anniversary! To tell us more about the awards and how they support people with learning disabilities and autism over the last 2 decades is Dawn, a leadership coach working in Yorkshire who has lived experience of learning disabilities. It was very exciting to hear from her about Inclusion North! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today's episode of the People First Podcast is coming to you live from the Modality health event that we attended earlier this month at Cougar Park in Keighley. We had two new podcasters, Ish and Owen, who went around and talked to guests and Modality health workers to get their feedback on what makes Events like these so important in our community and to get people's thoughts. We even spoke to the Community and Development Lead at Modality Bill Graham. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today on the People First Podcast we're talking about a very exciting upcoming local event happening across Bradford and Keighley for families and children with SEND needs, and the wider learning disabled community - called SENDiVERSE! To tell us more about, we have Andrea from The Leap joining us in our office today. She'll be explaining what the event is, what we can expect from it and telling us more about what The Leap does. We hope you enjoy the show!SENDiVERSE is taking place next week from October 27th to November  1st. To learn more about it please visit the Leap's website to see where the events are taking place! https://www.the-leap.org.uk/sendiverse-find-activitiesPlease rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

In today's episode of the podcast we are chatting to one of the professionals we met at the "Taking Good Care of Yourself" event we covered in September - Darren, from the Bradford Council Public Health team! Our team got to speak to him about his work at public health and what they do to support people all around the Bradford area, services available like My Living Well and lots of other important information! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast is a very special show as instead of being hosted by our usual team, we are featuring two special guests who'll be talking to each other! One of our amazing volunteers Nadia Clarke and Dr. Amy Kavanagh! Nadia's written some amazing question to ask Amy about her lived experience of Disability, her career as an Activist and much more. It has been a wonderful experience for our Podcast Team to be able to host this important conversation between a deaf woman and a blind woman which without technology advancements like we have now may not've been possible before. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have a very special men’s health edition of the People First Podcast for you today! As we will be talking to Andy, the Area Lead for Airedale and Calderdale at Andy’s Man Club! Podcast hosts Graeme, Daniel, Alex and men’s health worker Adrian got to learn more about the work Andy’s Man Club do all over the country and in our local areas in the Keighley group. They also discussed mental health,  why it is so important for men to talk about as well as the ways we can support other people when we see them struggling. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today's episode of the People First Podcast is the first show all about our recent Wellbeing Festival Event! We're speaking to one of the amazing Workshop Leaders who came into do a session with us, Jane from Tudor Rose Services! We learnt a lot more about her business that she runs as a person with disabilities as well as giving you all some information about the session she did with us about stratagies for Wellbeing. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast features a fantastic event that we covered a few weeks ago called Taking Good Care of Yourself. We spoke to Justine about the event in advance in a previous episode, so in this episode we spoke to some of the people who were on stalls at the event, people who delivered speeches, and guests at the event to get everyone's thoughts about how it went. Please enjoy the show, and if you want any more information about future health events, or if you need some support, please contact us at People First Keighley & Craven.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week we are being joined by one of our office volunteers Esta as well as PFKC member and fellow podcast host Stephen W to talk all about stomas! Stephen and Esta both have stomas and wanted to use their life experiences in order to share more information about what stomas are and how they can affect people to give us all a better understanding of them.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

Today's episode of the People First Podcast is all about the work we've been doing in our Office to look after all of our plants. This work's been lead by Daniel who's our Chief Gardener, and Rosy who's a Volunteer at PFKC who's supported our Members to understand how to look after our plants properly. We asked them questions about how they've looked after plants in our Office and any advice and bennifits to having your own plants. Enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On this weeks episode of the People First Podcast, we have a special interview with the lovely Justine Joy, who visited us to talk about an upcoming event called 'Taking Good Care of Yourself'. It will be an educational event for people with learning disables and neurodiversity to learn about health checks and get lots of accessible helpful information. We hope you enjoys the show!The event is free for all adults with learning disabilities and neurodiversity and their parents / carers, and is taking place at Central Hall in Keighley between 10AM and 4PM on Wednesday 10th September. To book your ticket, visit the event page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-wellbeing-event-for-learning-disabilities-and-neurodiversity-tickets-1410384731699Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On this week's episode of the People First Podcast we are talking about Cloverleaf Advocacy, an advocacy charity that supports people making different important decisions about their lives, including people with learning disabilities. To talk about it we are interviewing the Service Manager Karen, who came into our office. It was lovely being joined by her and getting to learn more about this amazing organisation! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

In this week's episode of the People First Podcast, we're speaking to the incredible team at Radio 119, a team made up of adults with learning disabilities from BCB Radio, who interviewed us earlier this year in July! Caitlin and Daniel—who visited BCB's office for the interview—are joined by Charlotte to speak to them about their work and learn why they all love BCB Radio! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On this week's episode of the People First Podcast, we are talking to special guest Jan Greenwood a local author with disabilities who's just released her first book in a series of children's fantasy stories, "Barney Buttons and the Secrets Of Brandeland"! We spoke to her about her experience as a new author and how her disability has impacted and influenced her writing. We even hear some segments of the book which she reads out. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On this week's episode of the People First Podcast we spoke to Skipton Building Society about advice for money and what a Building Society is. We hope you enjoy the show and a big thankyou to Em and Clare for joining us this week.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week on the People First Podcast we're talking to Justin, a Community Support Officer at the North Yorkshire Police Hate Crime team! We were very interested to speak to someone from our local police who works on hate crimes after doing Safer Streets Events in both Keighley and Skipton. It was very interesting to learn about his work in the police, how his team supports the We Care Scheme to make police resources more accessible, and how they support vulnerable people with disabilities. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast is all about the This Is Me Festival which two of our members attended last week on June 29th! Daniel and Lizzie both wanted to talk about and review what they enjoyed at the Festival, how accessible it was, what they'd like to see next year, and lots more! We hope you enjoy the show.Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have a very special guest on the People First Podcast today - Pete Le Grys, the Co-Founder of Photosymbols! We've met with Pete before in our office to work with him on a workshop about EasyRead where we started to use Photosymbols' incredible bank of photos to use in our EasyRead Documents. We wanted to have him on the podcast to talk about the work Photosymbols does as well as learning about the brand new projects they're doing with AI. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

On this week's episode of the People First Podcast, we are talking about an upcoming local event, Haworth Pride! We are speaking to one of the organisers Diane, who also runs the Wave of Nostalgia bookshop, to learn more about the event We also got to speak about her shop, which was very interesting. We hope you enjoy the show! Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

This week's episode of the People First Podcast is brought to you live from the offices of SNOOP, the Special Needs Objective Outreach Project based in Bradford! A few members of our team, Matthew, Charlotte and Nathan, visited them to learn more about their Organisation and the work they do to support  people with learning disabilities! We really enjoyed talking to their staff memmbers as well as a few of their service members too. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!

We have a very special episode of the People First Podcast for you today! we're talking to Dean Williams and Adam McAvoy the Chairman and Head Coach at the Wheelchair Football Association which runs the Powerchair Football Events all across England. We learned a lot about the amazing work the Association does to support people with disabilities to play Football in an accessable way. We have a lot of Football Fans in our office so we all really enjoyed speaking to them. Both Dean and Adam were fantastic guests and we hope to work with them again in the future. We hope you enjoy the show!Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow and improve.You can also support us on our social media channels - just search for "The People First Podcast" on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or X to keep up to date with all the latest news and episodes!