Active since 1984, we enable disabled women of all backgrounds, ages and situations to have a voice and share problems and solutions; provide free self-help information and support to access benefits, services, resources, tackle discrimination, escape abuse and violence; highlight how coping with disability and ill-health in an inaccessible world is hard work in itself, whether or not we do waged work. Our Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign presses for disabled mothers’ rights and our children’s rights to family support. 

Why the community needs us
Women are the majority of disabled people, but this is not reflected in policy, statistics, media. Women with disabilities' particular needs and concerns are largely invisible. Those of us facing added discrimination as asylum seekers, refugees, lgbtqi+, immigrants and carers, because of the type of disability, age and other issues, need support and to speak out. Women tell us the difference it makes to share problems and solutions with other women who understand.

Our impact on the community
Hundreds of disabled women of diverse backgrounds have felt supported and inspired to be active. Our benefit rights pages have been viewed thousands of times and been used to secure benefit entitlements and exemption from stressful disability benefit exams, appeal refusals, overturn Council Tax bills, cancel "bedroom tax", and lift threat of eviction. Women facing forced move to Universal Credit rely on our self-help info and one to one help. We successfully challenged refusal of the travel Freedom Pass to disabled asylum seekers. We challenge homecare cuts and charges.