What have you liked and not liked about Disability Backup over the past year?
Liked

• Can influence council decisions
• Ask councillors face to face
• Accessibility, content and action!
• The assistance, if I have a problem I can ask!
• Improvement of regular communication with disabled people and external visitors
• The help I've received from Catherine with social paper work and queries
• Enjoying myself and the meetings and listening to speakers
• Very good
• Catherine she is so helpful
• Access to information and advice
• Meeting different people with different issues
• I like to come to the meeting but sometimes I cant remember I enjoy coming to meet people I feel good I get out of the house
• I like it
• (This is my) first meeting, been a carer for 3 years without any help but now carers have information from the Older peoples reference group
• I liked everything
• To meet new people
• I like the new friends I have made and the willingness of people to help
• Everything
• The meeting place, friendly atmosphere. Catherine is very caring and helpful. Socially meeting other people and making friends. Relaxing and educative atmosphere
• Social aspects and results to problems
• The way staff have helped me with forms and referred me to relevant people who have helped
• My first time, seems very friendly and lively, gets things done I hope
• Meeting new people
• I like the arrangements of the group
• Catherine!
• All support given to people with disabilities
• This is my first meeting not able to comment but I think its good
• Ambience, sociability
• Modern accommodation and ambience
• The friendship, the sharing information being able to contact and get back too

• I haven't met the lady of my dreams!
• Sometimes no answer in the office
• Sometimes the inconvenient times of the disability backup meetings as they can clash with other commitments I have
• Things don't get done for disabled people
• Nothing
• There is nothing that I dislike the staff are very nice to all of us
• I am a young woman and deaf and everyone here is older and disabled
• The long period it has taken to know about Catherine and other groups
• I liked it all!
• There is nothing not to like so far...
• I thought from the internet that it wasn't for older people
• I cant see people's names (on their labels)

• Sex and disability
• Transport
• All the relevant ones
• Small group meetings, focus groups
• Access in Hackney, Transport
• Being a registered DPO? (Disabled Persons Organisation)
• Regular updates of members attending meetings or events
• More talks regarding welfare benefits and pensions and all the laws regarding mentally or disabled people and how the affect us
• To keep in touch with disabled people in the whole of Hackney
• More social outings
• Access in Hackney
• Housing Benefits, parking, freedom passes
• Transport particularly types of disability. Long delays in dealing with disability authorities and publicity.
• Getting together more socially
• Old age and the future
• Independent living
• Accessibility
• Human rights
• Neighbourhood watch about elderly abuse
• Social events
• Campaigning for more accessible pubs and nightclubs in London. Advice on visually impaired groups in London.
• Older people becoming disabled
• Transport
• Sport centres and pools
• Follow up on all topics raised
• Cross service people and organisations linking up, volunteering, social drop in and education, dance and sport, disability parliament and council.
• How to get more money

• More people
• More specific courses
• Join up with annual Hackney festival
• To help people as much as you can
• Nothing but I like the way they see things to the end and get things done
• To meet once a month, last week of the month if possible
• More regular meetings and networking
• Younger people
• You people have brought lots of changes to disability people
• Social events
• Help more disabled people
• Reach more disabled people and increase size, also for gay and mentally impaired people
• Social events out of Hackney
• Meet more regularly or have a drop in