Forthcoming Events
Our Place, Our Say - Middlesbrough - Tuesday 18th November 2025
Date: Tuesday 18th November 2025
Time: 10.00 to 16.00
For people who have a learning disability autistic people, friends and family
Free event: 10am – 4pm at the Middlesbrough Crypt and Old Fire Station, Albert Road, Middlesbrough,TS1 2QJ
- Meet staff from local organisations which provide support and advice
- Find our about local health and community services
- Find out what can help you and your family
- Have your say – tell us what you think about health and care near you
There will be live entertainment, stalls and information, craft activities, workshops, food/refreshments - drop in any time!
DAD are involved and will have a stand.
UK Disability History Month 2025
Date: Thursday 20th November 2025 to Saturday 20th December 2025
Time: 09.00 to 23.30
Disability, Life and Death
This year the value of Disabled People’s lives has been severely questioned. The Assisted Suicide legislation making its way through Parliament directly challenges Article 10 of the UNCRPD.
“States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life and shall take all necessary measures to ensure its effective enjoyment by persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others.”
Challenging the right to life of disabled people or ‘useless eaters’ as the Nazis of the 3rd Reich called us is not a new phenomenon.
So called ‘Mercy Killing’ or Euthanasia has been around as long as there have been human beings. The quality of our lives is often put forward by non-disabled medical experts who seek to impose non-disabled people’s values on us for letting us die.
Nearly every person with life long impairment will recite tales of how Doctors had told them and their parents they would not, live, walk, be educable and many such value judgements. And yet our history is full of disabled people who having received such dire warnings, have gone on to live worthwhile and productive lives. This is about providing disabled people with the adjustments and access they need, but most of all it is about challenging disabling attitudes and practices that still persist.
For more information: UK Disability History Month
Annual General Meeting - DAD
Date: Thursday 04th December 2025
Time: 10.00 to 14.00
Please join us at the Annual General Meeting on
Thursday 4th December 2025,
at the Bannatyne Hotel, Southend Ave, Darlington DL3 7HZ
The day starts at 10.00am. Tea/Coffee and Pastries will be served.
The formal AGM will be held at 10.30am.
Following the AGM there will be a set of presentations by people with lived experience on the issues affecting disabled people and how DAD is responding.
You are invited to join us at 1pm for a Buffet Lunch
Please inform us if you are attending the AGM, the presentations and the Christmas Drop In by contacting Judith, by email: judith.gledhill@darlingtondisability.org or by telephone: 01325 489999 option 5
Copies of the audited accounts and annual report will be available for members on the day; if you are unable to attend and would like a copy please contact us.
May I also inform you that only those people who are company members have the right to vote or to make proposals at the AGM.
Interested?
Call us on: 01325 489999 or Email us
How you can support us
As a local organisation we very much rely on the support of our local community. We support over 2,000 people every year to have greater choice and control and remove the barriers that disabled adults and children experience in their everyday lives. But we need YOUR help.