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Stepping Forward works to facilitate and accelerate access to essential services, information, resources
and life opportunities so that all people affected by disability can live a full life.

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Stepping Forward held a charity showing of The award-winning The Reason I Jump on Sunday 10 October, with a Q&A featuring the Director Jerry Rothwell, Autistic Advisor to the film Emma Dalmayne and Roland Penn-Timity who features in the film with his family in Sierra Leone. Funds raised on the night, including through a raffle, […]

Our Disability Advice and Support Service is busy supporting people to access DLA and PIP as well as support for specialist equipment, furniture or other items. Changed circumstances may mean that people may be entitled to new forms of support, eg Carer’s Allowance. Contact us at info@stepping-forward.org.uk to make an appointment.

The film ‘The Reason I Jump’, inspired by Naoki Higashida’s book of the same name, was released in the USA this weekend. Jes & her mother Mary Penn-Timity – co-Director and founder of the Sierra Leone Autistic Society (SLAS) feature. In response to offers of support as a result of publicity around the film, SLAS […]

Stepping Forward works to facilitate and accelerate access to essential services, information, resources and life opportunities so that all people affected by disability can live a full life.

UK Work

International Work

Support Our Work

Stepping Forward works to facilitate and accelerate access to essential services, information, resources
and life opportunities so that all people affected by disability can live a full life.