One of the UK’s leading disability charities is planning to hold an exhibition which examines assistive technology, mobility aids, support to help disabled people train for employment, and show how attitudes towards disabled people have changed over the 80 years of the charities existence. The event titled “Crippled, Handicapped, Disabled: Living Beyond Labels” is being held by Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation For Disabled People and will take place from the 20th to the 24th April this year at gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, London’s South Bank. It will be open from 11am to 6pm daily and admission is free. The exhibition is being funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and their support is extremely welcome.
gallery@oxo is owned and managed by Coin Street Community Builders.
The exhibition is centred around eight main objects including an Iron Lung and an Invacar and features archival photographs, film, and newly recorded oral histories from people who have benefitted from QEF’s services. The exhibition also tells a powerful story of the determination that our past beneficiaries and clients have shown to achieve their goals in life.
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People is a national disability charity working with people with physical and learning disabilities or acquired brain injuries to help them gain new skills and increase independence for life.
Everyone is welcome at the exhibition and there is no need to register.
For further information please contact:
Tel: 01372 841219
E-mail: heritage@qef.org.uk
Web: http://fundraising.qef.org.uk/
