Off we go!
On Wednesday 4th March in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, at a few minutes to 10 o'clock on a sunny morning Tony Phelps-Jones took the first steps on his 1,000 mile walk round the UK and Walk With Me had begun.
Walk With Me is Prospects national campaign to highlight the invisibility of people with learning disability and raise much needed resources to change their experiences of life and it was highly appropriate that the symbol of our equality as citizens, Parliament, was the starting point. Prospects’ Ambassadors Kelle Bryan and Matt Bird helped in the send off and Kelle Bryan voiced the aspirations and feelings of all there when she expressed the hope that the Walk With Me campaign would enable people with learning disabilities to gain a voice and become a bit more visible in their communities and Churches.
Tony’s 1,000 mile odyssey is designed to bring into the light the lives and aspirations of the 1.5 million people with learning disability in the UK whose experience of citizenship is often of marginalisation and exclusion from society and our Churches.
The desire is that along the way hundreds of people with learning disability will walk a mile with Tony and they issue the invitation to ‘Walk With Me’. By sharing a journey we often discover most about each other and so sharing this walk will change people’s perceptions and understandings about the lives, dreams and hopes of people with learning disabilities.
You can find out where Tony is going over the next six months and how you can join him here.
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