The People First Podcast

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 the show and a big thankyou to the students f...

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, why accessible sport is so important and more! We h...

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 about their experiences of Gig Buddies. We h...

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 to learn more about his amazing work. We hope...

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 but all different types of people. It was real...

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. It was very exciting to hear from her about Inclu...

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 and to get people's thoughts. We even s...

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 event is, what we can expect from it and...

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 available like My Living Well and lots of...

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 career as an Activist and much more.  I...

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 Keighley group. They also discussed mental health, ...

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 information about the session she did with us...

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 event to get everyone's thoughts about how i...

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 of them. Please rate our podcast and leave a revi...

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 looked after plants...

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 information. We hope you enjoys the show! The e...

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 joined by her and getting to learn more about this...

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 why they all love BCB Radio! We hope...

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 influenced her writing. W...

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 and improve. You can also support us on our...

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 police, how his team supports the We Care Scheme...

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 podcast and leave a review! It really he...

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 work Photosymbols does as well as learn...

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 podcast and leave a review! It really helps tell...

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 enjoyed talking to their staff memmbers as we...