Ways you can help – Black Lives Matter

When You’re Done: Educate Yourself. This Doesn’t Go Away Once The Topic Isn’t, “Trending.”

Black Lives Matter Movement

THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT website (not connected to BLMUK) was set up in July 2016 following the racist police killing of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in the US. WE do not claim to speak for anyone but ourselves – concerned activists that fighting for racial and social justice in the UK.

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

By Reni Eddo-Lodge

From the author behind the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, comes a podcast that takes the conversation a step further. Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today.

Anti-racism Resources feat. articles, videos, podcasts, books, films, organisations & info for white parents

By Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

The Shaw Trust Power 100

By The Shaw Trust

Welcome to the 2019 Shaw Trust Power 100. Britain’s most influential disabled people.

Tingtun Checker – Check the accessibility of web pages and PDFs

By TIngtun

Provides guidance on which barriers are created by content and how to overcome them to create accessible online resources.

Hijinx Theatre

We are Hijinx. We work from Wales but reach the whole world. We make strikingly different theatre. We are acclaimed for our award-winning theatre productions, community projects and diversity training. We are unashamedly ambitious for our Hijinx Actors. We want to see a learning disabled and/or autistic actor win an Oscar by 2030.

Battersea Arts Centre relaunches as world’s first fully relaxed venue

By Georgia Snow for The Stage thestage.co.uk

Battersea Arts Centre is relaunching itself as what it claims is the world’s first relaxed venue, in a move it said will help make it more accessible to disabled and neurodivergent audiences, artists and staff. As a fully relaxed venue, BAC said it will embed access and inclusivity across all its activities, applying the principles … More

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Relaxed screenings are screenings where the environment has been adapted to be more welcoming and accessible to people with additional needs.

These could be people living with dementia, autism, or other neurodiverse people. These screenings are identifiable by some adjustments such as altered lighting, volume of sound, arrangement of the venue, and usually don’t have trailers, and customers are encouraged to get up and move around, or speak or make noise if they want to/feel the need to. Screenings are usually introduced so that everyone attending realises talking and movement is allowed.

Here is a list to signpost you to some UK venues who currently host Relaxed Screenings or Autism-Friendly Screenings: