Our Mark awarded a Churchill Fellowship
Realife chair Mark Brookes adds a Churchill Fellowship to his MBE and honorary Doctorate for his work on hate crime with Dimensions, the national learning disability housing and support agency.
This funding will allow Dr Brookes to undertake overseas learning to understand international approaches to disability hate crime politically, legally, and within law enforcement. For the purposes of this project, disability hate crime relates predominately, but not exclusively, to people with learning disabilities and autism.
Dr Brookes will travel to the USA, and within Europe to research positive initiatives and approaches to victims of disability hate crime and the application of hate crime legislation in these countries.
The Noisy Women Collective grant award
Fara, Nicky, Ames and the rest of the collective have been awarded a £10000 grant from the Serpentine Trust and it comes with a support and mentoring package to expand their work nationally.
Move it or lose it!
Nicky Smith from the Realife Wellbeing Centre held a workshop Seniors Fair at the Cambridge United Football Club where participants joined in with a ‘Move it or Lose it clas’s