News Releases
Key News Releases sent out from TTR since May 2023. Please contact us on info@throughtheroof.org for more details.
News release: Journey with Jesus for Disability Awareness Week 2024
Disability charity Through the Roof is inviting churches to celebrate Disability Awareness Week. Everyone is encouraged to include local disabled people and to hold a service on Sunday 22nd September 2024, or a day of their choice. A free church resource pack is available
Luke 5 Award for Parish Nurse Roofbreaker
Through the Roof’s Luke 5 Award celebrates disability inclusion in Christian life. Usually, a disabled individual makes the nomination – to celebrate how an individual, group or church has made a difference by enabling them to access Christian life in some way. This time, we have several disabled people telling of how they are now able to access Christian...
News release: Understanding autistic meltdowns and shutdowns video
Triona Brading, an autistic Christian who is a Roofbreaker disability champion with Through the Roof, has teamed up with the charity again for a second video: ‘Understanding autistic meltdowns and shutdowns. Triona shares “helpful starting points for discussions with the autistic people in your church” to create awareness and begin dialogue, so autistic people can feel at home. What does the...
News release: ABC journey of disability inclusion
Disability charity Through the Roof is calling on all UK churches to join the ABC journey of disability inclusion, from Access to Belonging to Commission. We are sharing a new framework – the ABC model. It is a simple tool for churches to show that disability inclusion is about more than just access. Disabled people are hugely under-represented in the...
News Release: video on Supporting autistic individuals in our churches
Triona Brading, an autistic Christian who works with children with additional needs, is busting myths on autism in the church with her latest video, ‘Supporting autistic individuals in our churches’. The video shares practical tips from her own experience of autism and encourages churches to take a fresh perspective in forming a welcoming environment for autistic people. Triona, Roofbreaker disability...
News Release: Finding funding for an accessible church
4th May 2023 Disability charity Through the Roof has created a webpage to show churches and ministries where to find funding for building work to improve disabled access. It’s available now on their website and at this link: https://bit.ly/ObtainFunding Katie Mobbs from Through the Roof shares: “I’m a Christian, and a wheelchair...
News Release: Ramping Up Church Disability Inclusion
6 February 2023 With a generous grant from Benefact Trust, disability inclusion charity Through the Roof is ramping up its ‘Roofbreaker’ project...
News Release: The Choir of Angels Signs the Way Towards Inclusion of Deaf People
Award-winning Manchester children’s choir both signs and sings to ensure more people can be included. This festive season, a ‘Choir of Angels’ from Sacred Heart & St. Francis parish, Gorton, Manchester, is being celebrated for learning sign language and using drums to help include a deaf member of their church, Minna Moffatt-Feldman (pictured front left). Minna nominated the children for...