The Money Matters Project was a two year project funded by City Bridge Trust. This project looks at the cost of living crisis and how this affects people with learning disabilities (LD) and autistic spectrum conditions. This page features two reports written by self-advocates, videos, three podcasts, photos and words from 294 people. The writers, researchers and content creators are all self advocates from Bromley, Sutton and Bexley and beyond and all have a learning disability or autistic spectrum conditions.
Before we released our first Cost of Living Crisis report, our media team thought it would be a good idea to chat about how the cost of living crisis continues to affect people, including those with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum conditions. They chat about what they spend their money, how expensive things are and what is happening out there in the community.
In this special episode, Max talks to us about scams, what are the most common scams, and how it can feel to be a victim. Many thanks to Max for help and expertise…thanks to the media team for their contributions and producing this podcast.
In year 2, we collaborated with Bromley Mencap who started their own cost of living project. We attended their cost of living presentation in Orpington, and talked to them about how we can help each other. 2 weeks later we recorded a podcast with Martin who works for Bromley Mencap and is part of our media team.
Money Matters Conference, Bromley, July 2023
In this video below we show highlights from our Money Matters conference, looking at the ‘Cost Of Living Crisis’ affecting people with LD/ASC.
Our members created a music video based on the Abba song “Money, Money, Money”. The song lyrics were written by our members about how the cost of living crisis affects people with disabilities.
At the end of the project, the members wanted to write a second part to their original cost of living song Money Money Money. The song lyrics were written by our members about how the cost of living crisis affects people with disabilities.
Our team delivering‘Money Matters Project’ at the Positive Voices conference. It was great to meet the other self-advocacy groups and individuals, share our work with them, and hear their views on an important subject.
