Choices and Rights has been an organisation managed by disabled people and those with long term health conditions since we set up a small campaigning group in 1994. Since then, we have grown in size and we now employ 10 members of staff, support over 800 people who use Direct Payments and Personal Health Budgets and support them with employing over 1000 Personal Assistants.

Choices and Rights’ mission as an organisation of disabled people is to empower and enable it’s members, staff and volunteers to work together to meet the following aims:

1) With a local focus, promote the independence and inclusion of all disabled people in society.

2)  Identify and proactively challenge the discrimination faced by disabled people.

3) Encourage and empower disabled people to work together, and with others, to achieve improved change locally.

Membership of Choices and Rights

We want to increase our membership of disabled people and their families, so that you have a greater voice in the organisation, to help influence service providers and to develop new services. There are two levels of membership and both are free of charge!

Full Members

Full membership shall be open to disabled persons over the age of sixteen years who shall have full voting rights at any Choices and Rights meetings.

 Associate Members

Associate membership shall be open to non-disabled persons over the age of sixteen years who shall be allowed full participation in meetings, but will not have any voting rights.

Benefits of membership

  • Help us to influence the issues which matter to disabled people. For example, charging for social care, the extra costs of living with a disability, improving health and social care services.

  • Regular email updates on disability issues, both local and national.

  • Help us keep the charity’s trustee board up-to date with the needs of our members and service users

  • Keep the trustee board accountable to our members

  • Have the opportunity to volunteer with us, attend training and become a trustee

  • Be invited to attend our Annual General Meeting, vote on changes and attend other exciting members’ events

 


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