You can now listen to an MP3 file of our recent Opening Up Democracy event. The recording features all the key speakers, including John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons, Helen Goodman MP, shadow minister for work and pensions and Jenny Watson, the chair of the Electoral Commission. United Response held the event in [...]

On Monday, United Response was delighted to host a successful event in the Houses of Parliament, entitled “Opening Up Democracy”. The event, held in association with Dods, The House Magazine and ePolitix.com, was designed to provide attending MPs with practical guidance on ensuring people with learning disabilities and other hard to reach constituents are able [...]

United Response’s Opening up Democracy event takes place on July 5th. The occasion will provide MPs – especially new ones – with an overview of making politics accessible to all, including those with learning disabilities. This lunchtime event will be held at Westminster between 1 and 2.30PM, and will include accessibility workshops and guest speakers [...]

United Response has seen a great deal of success with its Making Democracy Accessible and Every Vote Counts campaigns. We got the core message – that politics and voting should be more approachable to all – out there amongst the public, the media and those making the decisions in the world of politics. We even [...]

Our report launch event for the Every Vote Counts campaign was held at Westminster on the 20th of January. Since then, the momentum around making politics more accessible has grown and grown. Most encouragingly, MPs from all parties are getting behind the drive. I’ve already mentioned most of the coverage we’ve had in this area, [...]

Our Every Vote Counts campaign has seen excellent coverage online – especially in the wake of the report launch event we held at Westminster last week. To give you an idea – and to acknowledge the various people, sites and organisations that have linked through to us – I have compiled a modest roundup of [...]