News

  • Disabled man shopping
    22 July 2013
    New report finds disabled people are more likely to be turning in desperation to high-cost loans and sometimes illegal lenders to pay bills and make ends meet.
  • Clothes hanging in wardrobe
    15 July 2013
    A revealing poll into men and women’s shopping habits as part of our bid to get people to donate one million clothes to our charity shops.
  • Disabled man
    26 June 2013
    Today the Chancellor said that £3 billion will be spent on social care. Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said "The Government has listened to disabled people, politicians and the public on social care."
  • Disabled woman
    26 June 2013
    The chancellor has announced a cap on Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) which includes disability benefits. Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope, said: "After £28.3 billion of cuts, disabled people can’t bear any further squeezes on their living standards."
  • Disabled woman
    4 June 2013
    Every pound spent on preventative and community services generates benefits to people, carers, local and central Government worth an average of at least £1.30.