This week's episode of the People First Podcast is all about the This Is Me Festival which two of our members attended last week on June #29th. Daniel and Lizy both wanted to talk about and review what they enjoyed at the Festival, how accessable it was, what they'd like to see next year and lots more. We hope you enjoy the show!

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We have a very special guest on the People First Podcast today - Pete Le Grys, the Co-Founder of Photosymbols! We've met with Pete before in our office to work with him on a workshop about EasyRead where we started to use Photosymbols' incredible bank of photos to use in our EasyRead Documents. We wanted to have him on the podcast to talk about the work Photosymbols does as well as learning about the brand new projects they're doing with AI. We hope you enjoy the show!

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On this week's episode of the People First Podcast, we are talking about an upcoming local event, Haworth Pride! We are speaking to one of the organisers Diane, who also runs the Wave of Nostalgia bookshop, to learn more about the event We also got to speak about her shop, which was very interesting. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week's episode of the People First Podcast is brought to you live from the offices of SNOOP, the Special Needs Objective Outreach Project based in Bradford! A few members of our team, Matthew, Charlotte and Nathan, visited them to learn more about their Organisation and the work they do to support people with learning disabilities! We really enjoyed talking to their staff memmbers as well as a few of their service members too. We hope you enjoy the show!

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We have a very special episode of the People First Podcast for you today! we're talking to Dean Williams and Adam McAvoy the Chairman and Head Coach at the Wheelchair Football Association which runs the Powerchair Football Events all across England. We learned a lot about the amazing work the Association does to support people with disabilities to play Football in an accessable way. We have a lot of Football Fans in our office so we all really enjoyed speaking to them. Both Dean and Adam were fantastic guests and we hope to work with them again in the future. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week on the People First Podcast we're speaking to Trever the Team Leader at the Self-Advocacy Organisation Voice Ability. We talked about how Voice Ability support people with learning disabilities and why it's important for Self-Advocacy Organisations like ours to help people with disabilities. We really enjoyed having him in the office and getting to speak to him. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week on the People First Podcast, we spoke to Connect the Dots! They are a local organisation that one of our Podcast Team, Kenny, also attends. Kenny invited and lead this great show where we found out lots of amazing information about some of the work they do at Connect the Dots from two support staff members and two people who attend the service. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week we're speaking to Katie and Nigel from Beyond Words, a fantastic local charity that works with people with disabilities to write and publish picture-only easy read books! As CEO and co-founder, Katie and Nigel did a great job at sharing lots of great info about what Beyond Words do and the great work they bring to their community. We hope you enjoy the show!

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