22 June FaCE @ BACOLL

We invited family, friends, local dignatories and key professionals to a buffet and celebration of our work where we gave presentations, showed our campaign animation The Language Stealers, Jake sang the ABC's of Communication Rights on my Pathfinder, and our friend, 1 Voice Role Model Jemima Hughes, gave a talk and showed the animation she made to promote the 1 Voice Under 13's weekend.

Pics from the event are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188794&id=574347491&l=8232d7460f

19-21 June Willowman Festival

Summer solstice weekend with family & friends at Willowman Festival, Lenthor Farm, Northallerton.

Our pics are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4384550&l=f5bc0f9aa5&id=574347491

15 June DADLG Summer BBQ

Our pics from Durham Area Disability Leisure Group summer BBQ and Quadbike ride are on Facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188767&id=574347491&l=c5da87b693

12-13 June 1 Voice Weekend

1 Voice theme for summer 2010 is Celebrating Our Families. We made and performed a song with some of our dreams in it, and 1 Voice is making a book about us on the theme of Love, Life & Families.

Our pics from the weekend are on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=188185&id=574347491&l=28d19846cf

Big Challenge – less than two weeks left to apply!

Looking for funding and support to turn your ideas into projects?
Apply to Big Challenge!
Here's a message from Big Challenge Programme and Support Manager, Abby Kegg:

"The Big Challenge competition for 16-25 year olds is closing to applications on 6th July.

To be in with a chance of winning a share of £65,000 along with support to set up your own community project you must apply before this date.

Your project just needs to inspire other young people and involve volunteers so think big and get involved now!

Check out www.bigchallenge.org.uk for full details and the online application and if this doesn’t apply to you then please forward it to someone who might be interested.

IMAGINE, INVOLVE, INSPIRE
IT’S YOUR TURN!

If you have ANY questions then please contact us on bigchallenge@unltd.org.uk

Big Challenge is a youth-led competition run by UnLtd in partnership with Changemakers and with funding from Vodafone and v. We are part of Live UnLtd www.liveunltd.com where you can find more opportunities like this for young people.

Abby Kegg
Programme and Support Manager

UnLtd
123 Whitecross Street
Islington
London EC1Y 8JJ

Tel: 0207 566 1106
Fax: 0207 566 1139
Mob: 075 4593 3796
AbbyKegg@unltd.org.uk
www.UnLtd.org.uk

15 Jun: Let's FaCE It!

Our first newsletter Let's FaCE It! is printed and ready to share! It's all about the projects and campaigns we've been doing these last 3 years, and how AAC can be used to help people communicate.

You can download a PDF of Let's FaCE It! or view graphics of the pages on the Diana Award Channel at Radiowaves here:
http://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/137891/title/28MayLetsFaCEIt

Here's the front page to give you a flavour:

Oops! the link to The Learning Disability Parliament on page 2 goes to the ISAAC site. It should go to http://www.serviceuser.co.uk/ If we find any more typos we'll put the corrections here.

25 May: Language Givers Project Log

The last two months we've been working on another animation - Robert, Andrew, Gemma and me. It's called The Language Givers and should be edited and online early next week.

Videos and photos from our workshops are on our Diana Award Channel pages at Radiowaves:

www.radiowaves.co.uk/r/mbr