With actress Sarah Gordy collecting her MBE recently we’ve been speaking to Vivienne Bateson MBE, about what it was like when she received her award ten years ago. Vivienne was honoured in the 2008 New Year’s Honours List for her excellent work at Coventry’s Job Centre Plus. The 47-year-old works on the Business Support team and has […]
Ben loves sport and recently earned his level 1 coaching assistant award! His mum Hayley kindly wrote this blog to tell us about how his coaches have supported him with his tennis…
Luke’s dance teacher at Dance 21 got in touch with us to tell us about his success after he won the Bam Bam Boogies Dance Battle in Essex. He was also awarded the Brian Jiggins Award, something Dance 21 gives out termly to their dancers. Here is a little bit more about Luke and what he […]
Shauna Hogan is no stranger to the spotlight. Her swimming career has seen her competing as far away as Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. She has now been chosen to be the face of the Special Olympic Games when it comes to Liverpool in 2021. She’s won countless medals and awards, and tells us what […]
This is a guest blog from Aaron. He’s 14 and has a rather interesting hobby – free running! We’ll let him tell you about it… So what is free running? It is basically trying to get from A to B in the quickest way, and involves climbing, jumping and running. I love watching parkour videos […]
Meet Charlie…one of the stars of Channel 4’s new series ‘Alone At Home’
This is a guest blog written by Lucas McCallum Suarez The Camino is a 118km walk from Sarria to Santiago. In July this year I began my second Camino. This time was different from the last as I was doing it with my brother, Nicky, who has Down’s syndrome. I had mixed feelings about doing the […]
Hi, my full name is Claire Harris and this is my sister Abigail. I have Down’s syndrome and Abigail wanted to make a film about people with Down’s syndrome in employment. I’m a competitive swimmer with Sharks swimming club, and I play football for the Paddock Wood Panthers. This summer I graduated from the three-year […]
William has kindly written us a guest blog telling us about his swimming and other hobbies… Hello my name is William Reed, I am 24 years old and live in south west London. I am a very keen swimmer and currently swim for Down’s Syndrome Team GB, who have just returned back from the 2018 […]
Earlier this month you may have heard about the Down Right Beautiful photographic project by Nicole Louise Photography. Hayley is mum to Aaron, who is one of the children photographed, and we asked her to tell us a little bit more about how she got involved: I first heard about Nicole’s “Down Right Beautiful” project […]
