Join us on Wednesday 5 March 2025 to mark Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. We are excited to welcome a range of inspiring speakers who will share their personal stories of living with cerebral palsy. They will offer insights into the challenges they face and the triumphs they achieve, giving us a deeper understanding of life with CP. 

• Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
• Time: From 6.30pm to 8pm.
• Location: online using Zoom.

Members who attend the event will enter a raffle to win a £20 voucher! 

About the event

6.30pm: Welcome from Richard Luke, Scope’s Cerebral Palsy Programme Lead

6.35pm: Richard introduces the theme of the event and the speakers

6.45pm to 7.30pm: Speakers panel with James Moore, Keron Day and Saida Ahmed

7.30pm to 7.55pm: Roundtable discussion with members

8pm: Event ends

Speakers

Richard Luke

Richard Luke is the Programme Lead for cerebral palsy (CP), covering England and Wales. He supports people living with CP, their families, and friends through the online community, queries received via the Helpline, or customers who contact him directly. He advises schools, GPs, and universities and offers training on cerebral palsy (CP). His job is highly varied, handling queries that range from finding physiotherapy services to dating and relationships, and everything in between. It involves a significant amount of casework, which forms a large part of his daily activities.

James Moore

James Moore is an actor and disability rights advocate with cerebral palsy. For the last 5 years, he has played Ryan Stocks in the ITV soap Emmerdale. He is also very outspoken on social media, using the platform to advocate for disability rights and other issues close to his heart. 

Keron Day

Keron Day is a disabled actor who has appeared in the last series of Sex Education, led the BBC show Kirkmoore, and starred in the film We’re Too Good For This, which premiered at the London Film Festival. Alongside his acting career, he is heavily involved in campaigning to increase and improve disability representation. His slogan is: "Diversity Without Disability, Is Not Diversity!" 

Saida Ahmed

Saida Ahmed is a black mixed-race, disabled woman with Cerebral Palsy. Saida has a BA in Inclusive Theatre.

Saida is an actress, poet, published writer, and a 2020 Stage Debut Award Nominee for the title character in Little Miss Burden, written by Matilda Ibini and directed by Debbie Hannan at the Bunker Theatre.

Saida’s credits include, Brassic, Unprecedented – The Unexpected Expert starring alongside Golda Rosheuvel and Lucianne McEvoy, The Gift, written by Leanna Benjamin, directed by Cheryl Martin & Produced by Nickie Miles – Wildin, for the Graeae Theatre Company’s YouTube channel for the Crips Without Constraints YouTube series Part 2 (which is displayed on their channel every Tuesday), in this piece Saida is starring alongside Sharon D Clarke.

Saida starred in an audio play on Northern Stage’s YouTube called Don’t Spill The Tea by Chris Sonnex, starring alongside Tanya Loretta Dee, Zainab Hasan and Lennon Aoife and an audio play version of Little Miss Burden.

Saida has gone on to appear in many more pieces, such as: Notes to The Forgotten She-Wolves at The Globe, written by Matilda Ibini, Soul Food by Leanna Benjamin, Head Over Wheels (a short comedic story on YouTube), written by Matilda Ibini and directed by Lisle Turner at Open Sky Ahead Theatre Company.

Saida’s recent credits include a lead in the BBC’s Jerk (BBC), a guest role in Brassic (Sky) and the title role in short film Mo <3 Kyra (Film4).