We are delighted to launch a feature episode of our Equalities Podcast as we mark Disability History Month 2021

In this episode, our Emma Jones speaks to a group of current and former colleagues and management committee members of METRO GAD, formerly GAD (Greenwich Association of Disabled People).

GAD was founded in 1975 emerging through the Independent Living Movement in the USA and UK and associated political and human rights activism with the objective to promote their welfare and rights as disabled people and for the wider community who live, work or study primarily within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, including by assisting such persons to obtain their full rights and privileges as citizens. Post its merger in 2019 becoming part of the METRO family METRO GAD continues to be led by disabled people for disabled people, with its own independent management committee. This approach reflects the disability rights maxim Nothing About Us Without Us.

Podcast guests: 

• John Ley - Co-Chair of the METRO GAD management committee and METRO Charity trustee

• Sue Elsegood - current management committee member

• Matthew Goodsell - management committee member

• Angela Smith - newly elected member of the management committee and former GAD employee

• Michael Farley - newly elected management committee member.

• Kate Brown - newly elected management committee member.

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