Have you ever visited a public building and thought to yourself, why didn’t they ask disabled people about their own access needs before spending money and making changes?
Well here’s your opportunity to offer your views about an important and valuable building at the heart of Birmingham’s heritage:
Disability Resource Centre are supporting a visitor research event aimed at disabled people taking place at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Friday 23 May 2014 from 1.30pm.
Jasper Carrott Suite, St Andrew’s Stadium, Birmingham B9 4RL.
9.30AM à 4PM
On behalf of the Office for Disability Issues, Disability Resource Centre (Birmingham), invites you to attend a Regional DPULO Event. The event is free for DPULO members and staff. We are delighted to support the Office for Disability Issues to offer this exciting opportunity for DPULOs in the West Midlands region to come together.
DRC are starting 2014 with our Safe and Sound courses running at BITA Pathways in Digbeth and at City and South Birmingham College in Hall Green.
Safe and Sound is a free 10 week programme of activities to help you become more aware of personal safety, security and protection matters. The courses are run by a partnership of five local organisations who are members of Midlands Consortium of User Led Organisations.
These include CP Midlands, Focus Birmingham, Freshwinds, Midland Mencap and DRC.
Disability Resource Centre recently concluded a training course in personal health issues called Heart Your Heart. The course was aimed at people who had heart conditions, were at risk of developing heart conditions or were family members of a person in these at risk groups. Twenty three people successfully completed the 6 week course which started in March 2013.
The course was followed up with a session from West Midlands Fire Service on the practical aspects of Heart Start Training.
Do you have a long term health condition or disability? Are you having any problems with your television recently? Is it pixelated, blurry or uncomfortable to watch?
We may be able to help if your problems are due to the At800 switch over!
Why might 4G cause interferance?.
Some 4G mobile services will operate at the 800 Mhz frequency, the same band certain Freeview services operate close to.Because of this, 4G signals on the 800 Mhz frequency band may interfere with Freeview services.
