People First Keighley and Craven

People First Keighley & Craven is a Self-Advocacy Registered Charity based in Keighley run by and for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. We support people across the Bradford & Craven Districts but our campaigns reach far past our home in Yorkshire. We advocate for a better world for all those with learning disabilities and/or autism no matter where they live. We are a true Disabled Person’s Organisation.

The organisation was formed in 2004 and became a registered charity in April 2008. It began small and focused on the social needs of our community of learning disabled and autistic people. It has grown a lot since then but the heart remains the same. We continue those social nights because they have proven time and again that they are the first step to advocacy.

We also firmly believe in the power of our community coming together and making happy memories. Our members run the organisation and they make their choices democratically even down to the location of the monthly social night.

We believe in choice, equality, co-design, and co-production and we ensure those values are at the forefront of everything we do.

Our work is based upon the principles of the Social Model of Disability and we use our campaigns to educate others that it is an inaccessible world and an under educated society that disables people and create barriers for individuals to live and achieve the lives they want, need and deserve.