Kingston Disability Network

Category: Event

  • 19th Feb – Safety Committee Community Group

    The RBK Safety Committee are running a Focus Group for KDN members to voice their feedback, comments and concerns, about community safety in relation to disability. This focus group will take place in The Guildhall, on the 19th of February, from 11AM-12:30PM.

    The Safety Committee are eager to hear from members of the KDN what real experiences of disabled people, and those who work with disabled people, are like. We find many members feel misunderstood or ignored when it comes to community safety, so we hope that this provides a space for members to explain concerns directly to the teams creating Community Safety plans.

    If you would like to attend, please contact us at info@kdn.org.uk. Registering interest is not mandatory to attend, but the RBK team would like a rough idea of numbers.

  • International Day of Disability

    Thank you to everyone who came along to our event on December 3rd, the International Day of Disability. At our event, we heard speeches from KDN Executive Leadership, Ashley and Keegan, alongside Steering Group members Roy, Scott and Karen. Councillor Anita Schaper also offered her speech, offering her personal connections to disability activism and committing the Council to working with the KDN as we grow.

    RBK’s Community Safety Officer, Lieneke Eleveld, has shared with us some excellent resources regarding hate crime, including some targeted towards disabled people. We are working on getting these files uploaded onto our website, but if you’d like to take a look into these in the meantime, please contact us and we can share physical copies.

    As we look to the future, we took on your feedback and will use it to improve accessibility and inclusion for our upcoming meetings, starting 2026. Keep an eye out for more!

  • Event – Book Club (9/10/2025)

    Hook & Chessington Library
    9 October 2025
    1-2pm


    To celebrate Black History Month
    with Black Disabled Authors

    Notable black disabled poets include:
    Audre Lorde, known for her legal blindness and experiences with cancer,
    Leroy F. Moore Jr., a physical disability advocate and founder of Krip-Hop Nation, and
    Ashanti Anderson, a queer, disabled poet whose debut collection is Black Under.
    Other significant voices are:
    Alayna Powell, who explores disability within a religious context, and
    Jasmine “Queen Jasmeen” Schlafke, a slam poet and disability justice advocate.


    For more information about this event please contact:-
    Hook & Chessington Library,
    13 Hook Rd, Hook, Chessington KT9 1EJ.
    Email info@kdn.org.uk or
    Phone 020 8547 5006.