Choices and Rights Disability Coalition (Hull and East Riding)

12/06/2026

🌟 Share Your Views on PIP with the Timms Review – Join Our Workshop! 🌟

As part of our Disabled People’s Panel, Choices and Rights are hosting a workshop for the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) — and we’d love you to take part. 💬

This session is open to any disabled person or carer with experience of PIP or views they’d like to share.

✨ Why take part?
This is your chance to:
• Share your experiences
• Talk about what works (and what doesn’t)
• Help shape recommendations that will go to the Secretary of State
We want to hear your thoughts on what PIP is for, what the application process is like, and how decisions are made. 📝

📅 Date: Thursday 16 July 2026
⏰ Time: 11.00am
👥 Participants: Around 15
🏢 Hosted by: Choices and Rights
📍 Location (in person):

Choices and Rights
Jude Lodge
Tiverton House
Tiverton Rd
Bransholme
Hull
HU7 4DQ

📧 To take part, please email [email protected]
📞 Or call Hull (01482) 878778

09/06/2026

Confidence in Care Boxes

A confidence in care box is available to unpaid carers who are registered at CISS to provide support to their caring role.

Please contact the service on 01482 222220 if you would like to talk to a team member to find out more.

09/06/2026

Can you spot the Rachel's?

09/06/2026

We’re at the Hull Carers Event today!
Come say hi to the team and find out how our Direct Payment Support Service can help you. We’ve got plenty of information, friendly advice (and yes, some treats!) waiting for you. See you soon! 👋

The Carers Market Place Event, hosted by the Carers Information & Support Service (CISS) in celebration of Carers Week, taking place on Tuesday, 9th June 2026.
Key Event Details
Date: Tuesday, 9th June 2026
Location: The Guildhall, 77 Lowgate, Hull, HU1 2AA

Over 40 local organizations and services gathered in one place to offer information, advice, and direct support for unpaid carers.

02/06/2026

Questionnaire invitation - disability, rest, and free time in the UK

Project title: Bread and Roses: Rest, Free Time and Disability (in, against, and beyond disabling capitalism)
Researcher and university: Ioana Cerasella Chis, University of Glasgow

Website: https://breadrosesdisability.uk
Questionnaire link, or alternatively
Downloadable Word Document version of the questionnaire (if you choose this way of submitting the form, please send it to [email protected])

Invitation: You are being invited to take part in a questionnaire for a research study conducted by Ioana Cerasella Chis from the University of Glasgow.

About the project: This project seeks to explore the politics of rest and free time under disabling capitalism. To this end, in its first phase, it seeks questionnaire responses by UK-based people who self-identify as being disabled, chronically ill, learning disabled, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, having impairments, or experiencing mental distress.
This project will gather stories and evidence that show, for example: what societal change is needed so that rest and free time are available to everyone (regardless of their employment status), what social restrictions create barriers for using free time in a way that is meaningful to respondents, what restful activities are most meaningful to the respondents, how they define these activities, and more.

What will happen after questionnaires and (later) collective discussions: alongside other publications, a Manifesto for Rest and Free Time will be written and shared widely.

The questionnaire: Responses can be submitted any time until (it is anticipated) the end of November 2026. If you do not have time to complete it in one sitting, you can close the online link to return to it at a later time (your previous responses should be remembered by your device for 2 weeks from the last edit). Alternatively, you can use the Word Document version linked above. If you wish to submit audio-recorded files (instead of typing your answers), you can upload them in the online questionnaire.

Sharing it with others: If you are interested in sharing the questionnaire with others, please forward this email or share this page with them: https://breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire/. More information about the project can be found at https://breadrosesdisability.uk

Project-related social media accounts: BlueSky Instagram Facebook LinkedIn X/Twitter

(1) a questionnaire, which will be distributed to disabled people in the UK through Disabled People’s Organisations, other relevant collectives, and on social media,

30/05/2026

🌟 We Are Hiring: Welfare Rights Worker 🌟
Location: Bransholme, Hull
Hours: 28–35 hours per week (Monday–Friday)
Salary: £30,576 (pro rata, based on 35 hours per week)

💬 About the Role
Do you know your DLA from your PIP?
Do you have experience supporting people with welfare benefits?
Choices & Rights are launching a new Welfare Rights Service to support disabled people and their families. We’re looking for a passionate and knowledgeable Welfare Rights Worker to help establish and deliver this vital service from the ground up.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in advocacy, advice, and representation, ensuring people receive the benefits they are entitled to.

🧩 Key Responsibilities

Manage a busy caseload of clients
Provide independent welfare benefits advice and assessments
Support clients with appeals and legal representation
Deliver a casework service using IT systems
Work collaboratively as part of a small, supportive team

✅ What We’re Looking For

Experience advising on welfare benefits
Ability to plan and prioritise workload effectively
Strong communication skills across all levels
Experience in casework or detailed customer service
Confident using IT systems
A flexible, proactive, team-focused attitude

💙 About Us
Choices & Rights is a user-led organisation of disabled people across Hull and East Riding.
We believe disabled people are the experts in their own lives, and we work to:

Champion rights and inclusion
Support individuals through practical services
Influence change through advocacy and lived experience

We’re a friendly, small office team based in Bransholme.

🎁 What We Offer

✅ Family-friendly working hours
✅ Free car parking
✅ 7% employer pension contribution
✅ 27 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata)
✅ Full training and support

📅 How to Apply
📞 Call: 01482 878778
📧 Email: [email protected]
Closing date: 2nd June 2026

26/05/2026

‼️POSITION CLOSING IN ONE WEEK ‼️
🚨WE ARE HIRING! 🚨
WELFARE RIGHTS WORKER
❓Do you know your DLA from your PIP? Have you experience of advising people on a range of welfare rights benefits?
ℹ️JOB DESCRIPTION
Choices and Rights have set up a new welfare rights service to advise disabled people and their families on welfare rights and benefits. This is in response to local demand and to the proposed changes in the welfare benefits system. You will be involved from the start in establishing and delivering this service.
The post will have a busy caseload and will include providing independent assessments for the full range of social security and related benefits/services and a legal representation service to disabled people who need to use the appeal route to establish their correct legal entitlement
📍Location: Bransholme, Hull
🕰️Hours: 28-35 Hours per week (Monday-Friday)
💰Rate of pay: Actual Salary £30,576 (Based on 35 hours)
SEARH CRITERIA
◼️ Experience of advising people on welfare benefits
◼️ Experience of planning and prioritising own workload
◼️ Ability to communicate with people at all levels
◼️ Experience of managing a case work service or detailed customer service
◼️ Experience in the use of IT systems to deliver a casework service
◼️ Flexible approach to working and a proactive team member
ℹ️ ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Choices & Rights are a user led organisation of disabled people in the Hull and East Riding area. We believe that the best experts on the needs of disabled people are disabled people themselves, and we use our voices to campaign for disabled people’s rights and develop new services.
We are a small office based on Bransholme.
We are looking for a new case worker to join our friendly team
In return we can offer:
◼️ Family friendly hours
◼️ Free car parking
◼️ 7% employer pension contribution
◼️ 27 days leave + paid bank hols (pro rata based on hours)
◼️ Full training
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Application forms and job description are available from:
☎️01482 878778
📧[email protected]
❌ CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 2nd June 2026
Personal Data Processing
Information in relation to personal data processing can be found at here or by contacting us and requesting a copy of our Hull Privacy Policy. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with GDPR (data protection law.) You can find how to send us a request to let you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data. We would like to keep your data until our position you apply for is filled. [We cannot estimate the exact time period, but we will consider this period over when a candidate accepts our job offer for the position for which we are considering you.] When that period is over, we will either delete your data or inform you that we will keep it in our database for future roles.
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