
Calling LDDA Members! Two weeks to our AGM.
Our Annual General Meeting is open to all members of the Liberal Democrat Disability Association.
Our Annual General Meeting is open to all members of the Liberal Democrat Disability Association.
During National Hate Crime Awareness Week, LDDA executive member and wheelchair user Julie Adnams Hatch shares how a recent experience of hate crime affected her. She explains how to report hate crime and why it's so important to record every incident. This #NationalHCAW we want to talk about disability hate crime.
The Liberal Democrats Disability Association calls upon the Governement to reinstate immediately the EnAble Fund for Disabled Candidates running for Public Office. The current restrictions on political campaigning due to Covid-19 have seen disabled candidates being unfairly disadvantaged. LDDA believes that the current Conservative Government is not fulfilling the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities which sets out that disabled people have the right to 'participate effectively and fully in political life on an equal basis with others.'
Nominations are now open for the biennial election to the following Officer positions and the General Committee:
This is the second report by Gemma Roulston, and Phil Stevens. Our 2 years is coming to an end. It has gone quickly. This means that Gemma has to stand down, due to having been chair for the maximum 4 years (2 years with Robert Adamson, and 2 years with Phil Stevens).
The motion to the full meeting of Oldham Council (Wednesday September 9) reads: