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The People First Podcast

People First Keighley & Craven

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People First Keighley & Craven is a self-advocacy group run by, and for, people with learning disabilities, and the People First Podcast is our platform to raise awareness about the real issues that affect people with learning disabilities in our community, and all over the world. We aim to inform and entertain our listeners by interviewing interesting guests and talking about the things that really matter to us. This is like having a stage, to speak out and get our voices heard.
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Teal is short-hand for the future of work. It means bringing your whole self to work, a focus on purpose and self-management. This podcast is a chat, over a cup of tea with the people who are making this change in health, care and the public sector, sharing stories of self-management in action.
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On the People First Podcast today we are doing an episode all about the recent Learning Disability Conference, lead by some of our friends at Mencap and the Active Community Team! Joining us in the studio are community partner Alex Craddock and members Barney and Jason to speak about their roles in the conference, their favourite moments from it, w…
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For our final episode of 2025, we have our yearly Christmas special! This year, all of our members answered a couple of questions about Christmas, including what presents they were hoping to get, and their very favourite part about the Christmas holidays. We hope that everyone has a great festive season, and a happy New Year. A big thank you for al…
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We have a very special episode for you today, because it's the penultimate show of the People First Podcast in 2025! We are talking about a very special topic, Road Safety, with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Vision Zero team! It's a very interesting project and we're really excited to learn more about it, and how road safety measures can …
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Today we're talking all about a recent visit from students and teachers of Brooklands, a local specialist school where People First Keighley and Craven is one of the many opportunities for graduating students! Our hosts today are former pupils Tyler, Sarah and Teghan, who asked questions and share their experiences of Brooklands. We hope you enjoy …
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Today there is a special returning guest in this week's episode of the People First Podcast! We are talking to Andy from Gig Buddies Bradford, who came on the show back in 2023, all about what they have been getting up to in the last 2 years and the plans for their Celebration this week! Members Rebecca and Owen also joined us in the studio to talk…
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On today's episode of the People First Podcast we are talking to a fantastic journalist and producer for the People Fixing the World podcast, William Kremer! William led a session in our office earlier this month about accessible news, and we enjoyed it so much our team took him on a tour of how we create podcasts! This is the episode we recorded t…
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This week on the People First Podcast, we're talking to a local organisation based in Wakefield called Stride Theatre. Our team got the chance to chat to their Tuesday morning group and the volunteers that support them to learn more about the work Stride does to help make Performing Arts accessible - not just for adults with learning disabilities b…
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This week we are talking all about the upcoming Inclusion North Charity Awards, celebrating the organisations 20th anniversary! To tell us more about the awards and how they support people with learning disabilities and autism over the last 2 decades is Dawn, a leadership coach working in Yorkshire who has lived experience of learning disabilities.…
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Today's episode of the People First Podcast is coming to you live from the Modality health event that we attended earlier this month at Cougar Park in Keighley. We had two new podcasters, Ish and Owen, who went around and talked to guests and Modality health workers to get their feedback on what makes Events like these so important in our community…
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Today on the People First Podcast we're talking about a very exciting upcoming local event happening across Bradford and Keighley for families and children with SEND needs, and the wider learning disabled community - called SENDiVERSE! To tell us more about, we have Andrea from The Leap joining us in our office today. She'll be explaining what the …
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In today's episode of the podcast we are chatting to one of the professionals we met at the "Taking Good Care of Yourself" event we covered in September - Darren, from the Bradford Council Public Health team! Our team got to speak to him about his work at public health and what they do to support people all around the Bradford area, services availa…
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This week's episode of the People First Podcast is a very special show as instead of being hosted by our usual team, we are featuring two special guests who'll be talking to each other! One of our amazing volunteers Nadia Clarke and Dr. Amy Kavanagh! Nadia's written some amazing question to ask Amy about her lived experience of Disability, her care…
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We have a very special men’s health edition of the People First Podcast for you today! As we will be talking to Andy, the Area Lead for Airedale and Calderdale at Andy’s Man Club! Podcast hosts Graeme, Daniel, Alex and men’s health worker Adrian got to learn more about the work Andy’s Man Club do all over the country and in our local areas in the K…
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Today's episode of the People First Podcast is the first show all about our recent Wellbeing Festival Event! We're speaking to one of the amazing Workshop Leaders who came into do a session with us, Jane from Tudor Rose Services! We learnt a lot more about her business that she runs as a person with disabilities as well as giving you all some infor…
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This week's episode of the People First Podcast features a fantastic event that we covered a few weeks ago called Taking Good Care of Yourself. We spoke to Justine about the event in advance in a previous episode, so in this episode we spoke to some of the people who were on stalls at the event, people who delivered speeches, and guests at the even…
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This week we are being joined by one of our office volunteers Esta as well as PFKC member and fellow podcast host Stephen W to talk all about stomas! Stephen and Esta both have stomas and wanted to use their life experiences in order to share more information about what stomas are and how they can affect people to give us all a better understanding…
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Today's episode of the People First Podcast is all about the work we've been doing in our Office to look after all of our plants. This work's been lead by Daniel who's our Chief Gardener, and Rosy who's a Volunteer at PFKC who's supported our Members to understand how to look after our plants properly. We asked them questions about how they've look…
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On this weeks episode of the People First Podcast, we have a special interview with the lovely Justine Joy, who visited us to talk about an upcoming event called 'Taking Good Care of Yourself'. It will be an educational event for people with learning disables and neurodiversity to learn about health checks and get lots of accessible helpful informa…
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On this week's episode of the People First Podcast we are talking about Cloverleaf Advocacy, an advocacy charity that supports people making different important decisions about their lives, including people with learning disabilities. To talk about it we are interviewing the Service Manager Karen, who came into our office. It was lovely being joine…
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In this week's episode of the People First Podcast, we're speaking to the incredible team at Radio 119, a team made up of adults with learning disabilities from BCB Radio, who interviewed us earlier this year in July! Caitlin and Daniel—who visited BCB's office for the interview—are joined by Charlotte to speak to them about their work and learn wh…
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On this week's episode of the People First Podcast, we are talking to special guest Jan Greenwood a local author with disabilities who's just released her first book in a series of children's fantasy stories, "Barney Buttons and the Secrets Of Brandeland"! We spoke to her about her experience as a new author and how her disability has impacted and …
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On this week's episode of the People First Podcast we spoke to Skipton Building Society about advice for money and what a Building Society is. We hope you enjoy the show and a big thankyou to Em and Clare for joining us this week. Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing and helps our show grow…
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This week on the People First Podcast we're talking to Justin, a Community Support Officer at the North Yorkshire Police Hate Crime team! We were very interested to speak to someone from our local police who works on hate crimes after doing Safer Streets Events in both Keighley and Skipton. It was very interesting to learn about his work in the pol…
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In today's episode of the People First Podcast, we're interviewing one of the amazing Personal Assistants who work with us regularly in the office supporting some of our members! Podcast hosts Luke, Daniel, Shannon and Jane W spoke to Katie, who is a part of Shannon's PA team! We learned a lot about her work she does with Shannon and her previous c…
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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 Lizzie both wanted to talk about and review what they enjoyed at the Festival, how accessible it was, what they'd like to see next year, and lots more! We hope you enjoy the show. Please rate our …
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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…
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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! Please rate our podc…
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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 e…
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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 …
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This week on the People First Podcast we're speaking to Trevor, the team leader at the self-advocacy organisation VoiceAbility! We learnt lots about how VoiceAbility support people with learning disabilities with decisions and choices about their health, care and wellbeing - and why advocacy organisations like ours are so important. We enjoyed havi…
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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 se…
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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…
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This week's People First Keighley And Craven Podcast features Tony, who's a part of the Keighley Commissioning Team at Bradford Council. We spoke to him about Travel Training because one of our Members has just finished their Travel Training and PFKC has just become a registered Organisation to deliver Travel Training. Enjoy the show! Please rate o…
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This week on the People First Podcast we have a very special guest from our local area - personal trainer and guide runner Donard Nyamjua! Donard works with Paralympic athletes as well as everyday people at PureGym in Keighley, helping to support people with disabilities to work out and making exercising accessible for lots of disabilities. We have…
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We have a very special episode of the People First Podcast for you today featuring the members of our Friday group at People First Keighley And Craven. Members Benjimin Daniel Lizy Matthew Rebecca Shannon and Steven are speaking about the recent Coffee Morning Fundraiser which we held downstairs in our Office building at Central Hall in Keighley. T…
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This week on the People First Podcast we are talking to one of our office volunteers, Susan, about the work she has been doing with our members around reading! We spoke with her as well as Alex and Ish, 2 of the members she has worked with, to learn more about the ways each of them have been working and celebrating their incredible achievements. We…
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This week on the People First Podcast we're speaking to a returning guest, our newest member of staff, Matt! Matt joined us in 2023 as an apprentice and we interviewed him to learn more about his course, but now he's finished his apprenticeship we wanted to speak to him again. We asked him about all the work he's been doing with us since joining as…
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This week's episode of the People First Podcast is coming to you live from our Safer Streets Event at Skipton Town Hall! This was our third Safer Streets Event, which are all about giving people with learning disabilities information on how they can be safer and report important issues like hate crimes. Some of our team attended the event and inter…
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In today's show we're speaking to Tatum, the Project Manager of the Accessible Information Standard at Healthwatch Leeds! We worked with Tatum on a Project in our office reviewing the Healthwatch website to see if it was accessible for people with learning disabilities, which we all enjoyed! It was very interesting to speak to her about the importa…
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This week on the People First Podcast we have a special guest all the way from the United States of America - Tiffany Yu, a Disability activist and author! She has recently released her new book, The Anti-Ablest Manifesto, and is in the UK for a book tour, so we got the chance to chat with her over Zoom! We discussed the new book, her work as an ad…
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On this week's episode we feature an on location recording from The Learning Disability England Conference in Manchester. Jane W and Charlotte did a fantastic job and did over 20 different Interviews to get an idea of what the Event was all about. Thankyou to everyone who took part and please enjoy the episode! Please rate our podcast and leave a r…
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We have a very special episode for you all this week! Four of our office team - Daniel, Stephen W, Charlotte and Kim - are reading their life stories which they've previously presented in the office! They are joined by volunteer Nadia, who has worked with members to share their experiences and the things they do outside of People First. We hope you…
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On this episode of the People First Podcast, we are speaking to Debs and Georgia the co-founders of Ali's sensory boxes! They provide lots of different sensory items in a range of boxes, and after seeing them at the This Is Me Festival last year we wanted to learn more about them. We hope you enjoy the show. Please rate our podcast and leave a revi…
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This week on the PFKC Podcast, we are talking about our recent Annual General Meeting! This is a very important meeting of our board of trustees to vote and discuss about important issues about the running of our charity. Some of our podcast team members discuss what an AGM is and why it is so important, as well as explaining some of the board posi…
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This week on the People First Podcast we're talking about accessible information! Accessible information is very important to us at People First Keighley and Craven, so our Podcast Hosts wanted to talk about some of the different ways information can be made access able for different people. We'll be talking about things from writing in Braille, tu…
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On today's episode of the People First Podcast we're being joined by a returning guest, Julie Stein Hodgins, who we're speaking to about Women's Health! We learned lots of useful information about periods, the different ways they can impact women and how they can be managed. We hope you enjoy the show! Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It…
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It's the first episode of season 4 of the People First Podcast! In today's show, we're speaking to Rachael the Project Manager at the Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource, a local support group for families of children with autism. We learned a lot about AWARE and how they support young people with autism in our local communities. We hope you en…
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It’s the last episode of the People First Podcast Season 3! To celebrate, here is our Christmas special where our team discuss lots of different festive topics, from how to stay warm in winter, why we celebrate Christmas, and lots of Christmas jokes! We hope you enjoy the show. Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our me…
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It's the second to last episode of the People First Podcast! This week features one of our new podcast members, Matthew, who wanted to talk about hidden disabilities and the meaning of the Hidden Disability Sunflower Lanyard. We hope you enjoy the show! Please rate our podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell our members how they are doing …
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On this episode of the People First Podcast, we are taking about Take a Hike, a local project run by the University of Bradford Student Union! Our podcast member Luke attends the service and wanted to talk to project leader Adam Tasker about it. We learnt a lot about all their work, and the amazing thing they have accomplished! We hope you enjoy th…
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