NEUMANN’S ANNUAL BLAIR DISABILITY LINKS SET TO BE BIGGEST YET A record number of Disability Service providers from the Ipswich and Somerset region have booked to hold information stalls at this year’s Blair Disability Links. “This will be the fourth year I have run the event and I am looking forward to connecting on the day with our local disability service providers, people living with disability and their carer’s. “I held the first Blair Disability Links in 2010 when I recognised the need for disability service providers, people living with disability and carers of people with disability to connect and share information. “The then Parliamentary Secretary for Disability, Sen Hon Jan McLucas officially launched the event at which we had around a dozen disability service providers participate,” Mr Neumann said. A key component of the event is the Blair Disability Links information booklet which is now more than 50 pages thick and contains a raft of information on all the disability services available in Ipswich and the Somerset region. “The Blair Disability Links information booklet has become something of a ‘best-seller’ (although it’s a free booklet) in Ipswich and the Somerset Region. “We have provided the community, including service providers and doctor’s surgeries with more than 12,000 copies over the last four years. “The booklets are an important tool in assisting service providers to link with each other as well as an important reference point for people living with disability and their carer’s,” Mr Neumann said. Last year we had 40 service providers holding stalls and this year, one week out from the event, we already have more than 50 stalls booked. Mr Neumann said that the event was growing at such a pace that it may need to be moved from its current location in the Brassall Shopping Centre to a larger venue in 2015. “We’ve been able to comfortably hold the Blair Disability Links outside my electorate office in the Brassall Shopping Centre up until now but if it keeps growing at this rate, we may need to look at an alternative venue for 2015,” Mr Neumann said. https://facebook/events/278793735650856/
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