Disability Pride Month

We celebrate Disability Pride Month every July. It’s an important moment for disabled people to come together as a community. An opportunity to share experiences and start conversations.

It’s a celebration of the creativity, resilience, and achievements of disabled people.

Disability Pride Month is for anyone who is disabled – or anyone who wishes to show their allyship by celebrating their disabled communities, like businesses.

It's a time for embracing disability identity positively. And challenging the negative attitudes that hold disabled people back. 

Where did Disability Pride Month come from?

Disability Pride Month began in Boston, USA, in 1990 – the same year the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Since then, it’s grown into a global movement. Scope has proudly supported the growth of Disability Pride Month in the UK since 2009.

Is it the same as LGBTQ+ Pride?

No. Disability Pride is a separate celebration, focused on disability identity and rights. Some people identify with both communities and both movements are about visibility, inclusion, and challenging negative attitudes.

Why does Disability Pride matter?

Because disabled people still face unfair treatment and harmful stereotypes.

3 in 4 disabled people say they’ve experienced negative attitudes.

Disability Pride helps change the conversation. It’s a chance to speak up, be proud, and create change.

The Disability Pride Flag was designed by Ann Magill. The rainbow of colours on the disability pride flag represents the various experiences and needs within the disabled community. Such as non-visible, sensory, physical, developmental and mental impairments and conditions.

The banded arrangement of the colours represents the barriers many disabled people face and have to navigate through.

This is what each colour represents:

Red

Physical impairments and conditions

Gold

Neurodiversity

White

Non-visible and undiagnosed impairments and conditions

Blue

Emotional and psychiatric conditions, including mental health, anxiety and depression

Green

Hearing impaired, vision impaired, audio processing and all other sensory impairments and conditions

Charcoal

The charcoal background is to represent people in the community who have experienced ableism, and to protest against this

Join a growing community of organisations celebrating disability pride with Scope.

Disability Pride Month 2026 is your chance to be part of a powerful national movement that celebrates the diversity, creativity and strength of the UK’s 16 million disabled people.

Our partners help raise awareness, amplify disabled voices, and create meaningful change across workplaces and communities.

Why partner with us?

Partnering with Scope means you’ll have the tools, guidance and support to make Disability Pride Month meaningful across your organisation.

• Training and insight
  Join expert-led sessions that unpack the history and purpose of Disability Pride Month, and help your teams feel confident talking about disability and inclusion.
• Campaign-ready content
  We’ll share ready‑to‑use social posts, messaging and assets so you can easily highlight Disability Pride Month on your channels.
• Support with storytelling
  If you want to share the experiences of disabled colleagues or customers, we’ll guide you on how to do this safely, respectfully and in a way that celebrates disability pride.
• Fundraising ideas and resources
  Whether you’re running staff activities or engaging customers, we’ll give you simple, creative ways to raise money and make a genuine impact.
• Visibility for your commitment
  As a partner, you can use our “In Support of Scope” Disability Pride Month logo and be featured as part of a growing movement for equality.

Together, we can put Disability Pride Month on the map and create an equal future with disabled people.

Get involved

If your organisation is ready to help raise awareness, raise money, and celebrate disabled people this July, we’d love to work with you.

To become a Disability Pride Month 2026 partner, contact us at: partnerships@scope.org.uk