The Disability Action Yorkshire Blog

Are you a Heston, Delia or Jamie?

We NEED YOU and your recipes.

Please find attached a recipe form, we would love you to submit your favourite recipe to go into our charity cookbook.

For sale in late Summer filled with delicious recipes, so send in your favourite.

Email   or Post back to Disability Action Yorkshire, i4A, Hornbeam Park Oval, Harrogate, HG2 8RB

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We are thrilled that we have been shortlisted in the Ackrill Media Business Awards in the category ‘Best Large Company’.  The award will be presented at a ceremony on 15 March and we will have our fingers crossed until then! Continue Reading

During February and March we are able to offer a free 6 day taster course, funded by NLDC,  to disabled adults in the basic principles of volunteering.  The course will demonstrate the benefits of volunteering and how to use volunteering as an opportunity to develop skills for work. Continue Reading

Disability Action Yorkshire has received £1,500 funding from The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation to support the purchase of accessible fixtures and fittings at our new Holiday Lodge.

Features will include tracked hoists, profiling beds, wet room and a kitchen with rise and fall units, hob and sink.

The site is at Kenwick Woods which has great facilities on site and is in a good situation for things to see and visit in the local area.  For more information on the site visit www.kenwickwoods.com

Colleagues at Radio Poplar have asked us to tell you about themselves.  They are a web based radio station and regsitered charity which broadcast a wide range of programmes which may be of interest to disabled people.  If you are interested have a look at www.radiopoplar.co.uk

We were thrilled to be presented with a cheque for £4,000 from John Hodgson, Chair of the Nidderdale Messiah.  John came along to 34 Claro Road, our residential home, to present the cheque to Caroline, one of our service users, on 10 January.  This was the proceeds from the magnificent Nidderdale Messiah held in November 2011 at Birstwith church. Continue Reading

Our Head Office has now reopened after the winter break along with the Furniture Enterprise showroom. 

We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year (a little late!)  We are so excited about the year to come which is going to bring us new challenges and ventures.  Please keep checking back with us to see what is happening.

A successful day fundraising for Disability Action Yorkshire on Sunday 4th December.

Santa and his Elf collected over £100 at Darley Mill Santa’s Grotto.

Thank you for your support

Today we have launched our Listening Line.  This is a dedicated phone line where users of our services, or those supporting them, can ring if they want to talk to someone confidentially about any of our services.

If callers are ringing about abuse or suspected abuse they will be directed to the relevant Safeguarding Team, if they feel unable to make that call themselves we will put the referral system immediately in place. Continue Reading