This week on the People First Podcast, we are talking to another one of the winners from the 2025 Inclusion North Awards! Our guests today are Tony, Jayne and Sam, learning disability Self-Advocates based in Selby who at the awards last year were given the Gary Stark Citizenship Award.

Joining them today is Maria, a staff member from Inclusion North, to tell us more about the work they did to win the award as well as learning more about Inclusion North. We hope you all enjoy the show!

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We have an exciting and theatrical episode of the People First Podcast for you all today, as we are talking to one of the oldest theatre groups ran by people with learning disabilities — Firebird Theatre, which is based in the Old Vic in Bristol! Joining us to talk about members Chris, Tina and Dan to tell us more about their time at Firebird, how theatre skills help them to be advocates, and what their show plans are for 2026! We hope you enjoy the show.

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We've got another episode of the People First Podcast for the football fans in the audience! Because we are talking all about Bradford Disability Football Club, a local partner of Bradford AFC that supports adults with learning disabilities with a range of needs to play football! Our member Oliver organised this interview as he plays for the football club, and wanted to talk more about the group. To tell us more about it is one of the Trustees, Andy! We hope you enjoy the show.

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On today's episode of the People First Podcast we're talking about our trips to Cartwright Hall in Bradford to see the 2025 Turner Prize! Four rooms filled with a diverse and colourful set of artworks by four fantastic artists, including this year's winner Nnena Kalu! To hear more about it, we welcomed Ami from Bradford Care Association into the studio, who supported our visits around the exhibit! Thank you for coming on the show Ami, it was great to hear more about the Turner Prize and other joint projects like Portraits Of Our Time. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week on the People First Podcast we are having a more serious discussion about death, dying and grief. This is a very important topic for us to talk about, so although it can be difficult we do not want to shy away from covering it on our show. Our guest is Karen from Tending 3 Magpies, who offers person-centred care and support for people at the end of their lives, to tell us more about this important work. We hope you enjoy the show.

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This week's episode of the People First Podcast focuses on a fantastic project that some of our members took part in called "Portraits of our Time"! This was a project supported by Bradford 2025 where people were photographed holding something important to them, like an object or a photograph. They then spoke about the object and why it is something that means so much to them.

To talk about the project we had Louise the event photographer and Jeanine who helped us on that project and during our first visit to Cartwright Hall to see the Turner Prize in the studio! We hope you enjoy the show.

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Today's episode of the People First Podcast features another one of the winners from last year's Inclusion North Charity Awards, Little SendSations. We got the chance to speak to their Founders Hayley and Sam to learn more about the work they do to support children and young people and their families with learning disabilities and SEND needs. They won CoProduction Of The Year at the Awards for their work with Inclusion North so it was very interesting to learn more about that as well. We hope you enjoy the show!

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This week's episode of the People First Podcast is all about one of the fantastic winners of last year's Inclusion North Awards, celebrating services and organisation that work in different ways to support people with learning disabilities. We are speaking to Paul and Sian from Durham County Council, who work to run Bluebell Apartments that won Provider of the Year! We hope you enjoy the show.

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