Cerebral Palsy Cymru

July marks Disability Pride Month! You may be familiar with the Disability Pride Flag, but do you know what the different colours represent? ❤️ Red represents physical disabilities. 💛 Gold represents neurodiversity. 🤍 White stands for non-visible and undiagnosed disabilities. 💙 Blue represents emotional and psychiatric disabilities. 💚 Green stands for sensory disabilities. 🖤 The black background of the flag commemorates and mourns disabled people who’ve died due to ableism, violence, negligence, suicide and illness.

🚗Throwback to last month when we joined our friends at the annual South Wales Classic Car Club show!🚗 We would like to say a big thank you to the South Wales Classic Car Club Show for inviting us once again to the event, and for their continued support. Did you know that over the past 30 years, they have raised an incredible £110,000 for us? We would also like to thank our Volunteer Ambassador, Lindsay Doyle, and our Llanishen shop volunteer, Joe, for joining us at the event.

July marks Disability Pride Month! Disability Pride Month is an event that was created to raise awareness of disabilities and encourage positive conversations around disability. To learn more about cerebral palsy, and how it affects individuals, visit the link below: https://lnkd.in/eUXVg2JK

We would like to say a big thank you to Scope for inviting us to their Disability Pride Month event at the Senedd today.   It was a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Disability Pride Month, and hear from important organisations including Shiny Happy People, Pedal Power Cardiff, Rubicon Dance, South Wales Police, Wild Rhythm C.I.C and Scope’s Youth Community Collective and Youth Panel.

We would like to say a huge thank you to this amazing bunch of fundraisers from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service / Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru who walked 18 miles from Rhyl to Llandudno in full firefighter gear and BA on their backs to raise money for us and many other fantastic charities! So far, the group have raised over £1,300 for us! llongyfarchiadau a diolch yn fawr iawn!

⭐️ Fundraising Friday ⭐️ We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Stephen Bailey who raised an amazing £1,600 by completing a sponsored silence at work. His colleagues and friends at ACT Training Ltd were very generous with their donations and Stephen managed to successfully stay quiet for 4 hours! 🤐 Stephen was thrilled with the amount of money he managed to raise and is already thinking about next years fundraiser! 🤫

🥂 Tickets for our Better Start Ball are now on sale! 🥂 Join us on Friday 18th October at The Parkgate Hotel for a very special evening of delicious food, fabulous entertainment and fundraising to support our early intervention service Better Start, Better Future. Tickets are £80pp or £800 for a table of 10. To book single tickets, please visit https://lnkd.in/eUE5qa8Z To book a table of 10, please email [email protected] We would like to say a huge thank you to Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK) for being the headline sponsor for the event and for their continued support for our early intervention service.

🎟️Tickets for our Family Fun Fiesta are now on sale! 🥳 Join us for an afternoon full of family fun activities, delicious food and musical entertainment 🎶 Tickets are £3 each for adults and children, and under 2s can join in the fun for free! Click here to book your tickets 👇 https://lnkd.in/eP869fPj Thank you to Irwin Mitchell for sponsoring this event. We can't wait to see you all there! 🤗

On Tuesday, we welcomed Llanishen Rotary Club to our children's centre to see our Eye Gaze system in action. Llanishen Rotary Club kindly gifted this eye gaze system to us earlier this year, and it will make a huge difference to the children attending our children's centre who have more complex needs. "Some children who attend our children's centre use their eyes as the most effective way to communicate" explains Helen, our Speech & Language Therapist. "However this is a skill which requires practise. The provision of the eye gaze unit has been very much welcomed to replace our outdated machines. The iPad and eye gaze camera is much more portable than our old systems and it's portable so it can be used in our children's centre or taken on outreach to support children in single consultation blocks. Thank you Llanishen Rotary Club for helping us give these children a voice."

We would like to say a big thank you to our friends at blue self storage for inviting us to their Summer BBQ Networking event last Friday! It was a wonderful evening of meeting other businesses and enjoying delicious food! Thank you to everyone at blue self storage for your continued support! 💙