Radar works for an equal society, where everyone living with disability or health conditions can fully participate.
Radar influenced the Equality Act – securing changes including no health questions before job offer and new rights to aids and adaptations for disabled children – as well as successfully opposing attempts to water down the Disability Discrimination Act.
Radar promotes human rights: see our guide to the UN Convention on Human Rights.
We work to close gaps of inequality – in education, employment, hate crime, accessibility and more
Radar supports local and national disabled people’s organisations - and disability organisations more generally – with briefings, a magazine, e-bulletins, regional empowerment forums, an empowerment guide and more. We have over 400 organisational members. For how to join click here
We run projects, some with partner disability organisations, to pilot new approaches to equality. We are a national agent for the Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme, funded by the Department of Health, which helps thousands of disabled people to volunteer each year, many moving on to paid employment.
We offer a national campaigning voice – and opportunities for members to speak directly to decision makers. We believe the voice of disabled people and our organisations can stimulate change. We support the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability, chaired by Baroness Jane Campbell and Anne McGuire MP
Disability activists and champions are changing our world for the better. We celebrate great achievements – like Nadeem Badshah, who as a campaigning journalist courageously wrote about controversial issues like forced marriage and disability in Asian media; or Wycliffe Noble, who changed the building regulations and the accessibility of our society
The Disability Hate Crime Network won our People of the Year ‘stop hate’ award, for highlighting the menace of hate crime and persuading police and politicians to take it seriously.
Arts and media help change attitudes. Radar celebrates ground-breaking work like Lizzie Emeh’s highly successful music that challenges perceptions of learning disability, Bobbie Baker’s visual diary, depicting the experience of mental illness as it happens, day by day and new media stories like Channel 4′s Cast-Offs
