For a disabled person, day to day living can involve a huge amount of labour: navigating healthcare and welfare systems, repeatedly advocating for yourself in hostile situations, or keeping on top of bills, medications, and appointments, to name a few examples. 

Facing these current crises, and with the knowledge that disabled people are the experts in organising, self-advocacy, and mutual aid in this arena, we have worked to provide a list below of ways you can seek or offer support and keep informed.

We invite you to add to this list by using the submission form immediately below.

We welcome resources, articles, suggestions, and more - anything that you think would benefit the disabled community right now. During #TheManyCostsOfLiving campaign in March 2023, we will add in the details we are sent by you, and build up the list with various sections as appropriate.

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We want to hear your suggestions for resources, information, and available support. 

Complete our submission form

#TheManyCostsOfLiving are significantly greater for disabled people. So, what can be done?

1. Keep informed

• Disability News Service - the country's only news agency specialising on disability issues
• Read RNIB's report on the impact of the cost of living crisis on those living with sight loss
• Check out Mencap's Easy Read guide on the cost of living crisis
• Find out what cost of living payments you may be entitled to as a disabled person 
• Disability Rights UK work nationally to improve conditions
• Sisters of Frida research and report on the experience of disabled women
• In addition to their own resources and campaigning, Shaping Our Lives published information for user-led organisations seeking funding for their work
• Read Ellen Clifford's The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare, and the Making of a Human Catastrophe
• Find out what Government support might be available to you

2. Think local

• Jersey: Royal Association for Deaf People's advice service
• London: Inclusion London campaign for equality
• National: browse Inclusion London's database or Choices and Rights interactive map of Disabled People's Organisations
• Wales: Disability Wales provide up-to-date information and advice for disabled people
  • And also run the Disability Rights Taskforce within Welsh government
• Northern Ireland: Disability Action Northern Ireland offer advice as well as campaigns to improve local and Europe-wide conditions
• Scotland: Inclusion Scotland offer a voice and support for disabled people and compile research and policy guidelines
• Manchester: Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People campaign for rights and inclusion
• Hackney:CHOICE Hackney provide advocacy services for the local community
• Buckinghamshire: BUDS offer local user-led services and regularly update their regional Covid-19 risk assessment
• Cornwall: DisAbility Cornwall undertake and publish vital research

3. Seek and forge solidarity

• Mencap's current campaigns - supporting learning disabled communities
• Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) organise on a national level against harmful cuts to services
• Join the Royal Association for Deaf People's Cost of Living support group
• The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) is pushing for equitable welfare provision
• Get involved with People First's ongoing campaigns to end the discrimination of learning disabled communities
• Help Disability Positive ban the use of prepayment meters
• Sign WinVisibile's petition to stop the forced installation of prepayment meters

Let us know what you think of The Many Costs of Living

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Banner image: NHS staff protesting photographed by birmingham_eastside.