Annual Disability Awards

An annual award scheme devised to acknowledge, recognise and celebrate an organisation, agency, group or individual within the Borough of Walsall who has worked in partnership with the local authority and Voluntary and Community sector in delivering a good practice scheme or project that benefits people with disabilities and or impairments and has contributed to the principals of COMPACT and the disability statement.

The Disability Awards are sponsored by a number of companies and services from the Public, Private, Business and Third Sectors in Walsall

Alan Ash

A Wheelchiar Opympian Rugby Player and our special guest for the 2009 Annual Disability Awards held at the Walsall Town Hall

John A Hay

Our 2011 Guest Speaker is a Senior Lecturer for Deaf Studies and British Sign Language / English interpreting at the University of Wolverhampton since September 1998. Currently the Course Leader for Deaf Studies, John has additional responsibilities such as Senior Academic Counsellor and Special Needs Tutor duties he could not perform efficiently without support from the Department of Works and Pensions Access to Work initiative. A keen adherent of Deaf History, John is the Chair of the British Deaf History Society which he confounded in 1993 as is also the past President of Deaf History International. Needless to say, he presented and is still presenting papers at conferences both at home and abroad, the most recent being in Glasgow and Salzburg last autumn. John was awarded the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to do a study tour on Deaf Museums and Archival Centres in Europe and northern America in the autumn of 2006.

Henrietta Spalding

Our 2010 Special Guest Speaker from Changing Faces, (BA Hons) Henrieta helped set up a support group for individuals and their families with Moebius Syndrome, a rare congenital condition that she was born with which includes facial paralysis. 7 years ago Henrietta became involved in the national charity Changing Faces that supports and represents individuals with disfigurements.

Anyone can make a nomination for an organisation, agency, group or individual of one or more of the awards on offer! For further information go to the contact us Page