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Ian's Story

11 November 2025

Leeds-based veteran Ian Westmoreland sustained a spinal cord injury six years after leaving the army. Ian explains how his life…

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Black History Month (Forward - Autumn 2025)

1 October 2025

Black History Month takes place in October, but SIA member Ifeanyi Nwokoro asks – to be effective, shouldn’t conversations about…

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Something Wicked - interview with Marissa Bode (Forward - Autumn 2025)

20 September 2025

Wicked movie star Marissa Bode made history last year as the first spinal cord injured actress to play a wheelchair-using…

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Power in Words (Forward - Autumn 2025)

15 September 2025

Award-winning writer, poet and disability activist Bethany Handley, 26, from south Wales believes poetry is a powerful form of activism,…

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Ceramic Sisters (Forward - Autumn 2025)

10 September 2025

When artist Emily Kilby, 27, from Hertfordshire, sustained her incomplete SCI caused by Transverse Myelitis she thought she’d have to…

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SIA ambassador climbs mountain following same route as his grandfather

11 August 2025

Brothers Niall and Finn McCann have summited Qattaujannguaq, also known as Mount Asgard on Canada’s Baffin Island in the Arctic circle,…

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