Gloucestershire Disability Forum: About the Forum

The Gloucestershire Disability Forum is a network and campaigning group for associated disability groups within the county.

The forum provides people with a disability the opportunity to have a say in the quality and type of services provided by the statutory and voluntary organisations and other providers in the county.

Forum members meet regularly to discuss and act on a number of issues:

• Sharing information through training, information briefs and invited speakers on specialist issues
• Maintaining a central mailing list of disability groups and people in the county
• Identifying problems and deficiencies in the delivery of services and proposing improvements
• Identifying opportunities to develop and expand services
• Providing a united voice on disability in the county
• Lobbying and campaigning as appropriate
• Highlighting common issues and problems
• Supporting individual groups
• Providing a central source of advice for interested parties and organisations
• Linking like-minded groups such as access, transport or day centre groups
• Inviting representatives from the statutory sector countywide to explain their policies, delivery of services etc. and respond to issues of interest

You can contact the forum on gdf@gloslifestyles.co.uk.