Spokeout
January 2025

We hope you are well and the weather is starting to warm up where you are. It certainly has been a cold start to the year.

Since last year, we have made some improvements to SpokeOut and we hope that you find this version more accessible and easier to read and navigate. Let us know your thoughts by emailing us at news@iwa.ie.

In this edition, we are delighted to bring you information on IWA’s Ability Programme, designed to help people with disabilities to gain employment. We are currently taking applications so please make sure to read on and see if it is something that you would like to apply for.

On the housing front, we bring you up to date on a housing conference we’ll be hosting this year. Through this event, we will be working hard to lobby for the building of more wheelchair liveable housing.

Updates from IWA-Sport, fundraising and volunteers also feature so please take a couple of minutes to bring yourself up to speed on all the latest information.

In other news, we are so proud of IWA’s Advocacy Manager, Joan Carthy who is currently running as an independent candidate in the upcoming Seanad Elections. If elected, Joan promises to bring her lived experience as a person with a physical disability to inform public policy and ensure that your voice is heard. Check out our social media channels for more.

Thank you.