Press releases

Leonard Cheshire will host Disability in the South Asian Community, on 17 August (3pm-4pm) as part of South Asian Heritage Month.

The disability charity Leonard Cheshire Cymru have received funding to support disabled people in their services to become more digitally connected.

Our director of policy Gemma Hope responds to the UK Government Health and Disability Green Paper and its response to Health is everyone’s business’ consultation.

If the government reforms social care it could boost the economy by £6 billion to £20 billion, including £1-4 billion in income tax.

Our Managing Director of Global Influencing and Programmes Tiziana Oliva responds to the government’s vote to maintain the cut in overseas aid from 0.7% to 0.5%.

Disability influencer and advocate Ali Hemsley is dressing up as her favourite superheroes and walking almost 25 miles of Sussex coastline to raise money for pan-disability charity Leonard Cheshire.

Schoolboys and brothers Raif, 9, and Danyal Noor , 6, are going to cycle 20km (over 12 miles) through the Peak District, to raise money for a local care home for disabled adults.

Rap musician Kray-Z Legz is joining international disability charity, Leonard Cheshire, as a Global Youth Ambassador for music.

National governments must make youth with disabilities ‘part of the solution’ to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from international pan-disability charity Leonard Cheshire has urged.

Members of the Oxford and Cambridge Varsity rugby teams have carried out a virtual workout for Leonard Cheshire services and customers across the UK.