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1. Jane Holmes Blog: Handy men and women needed to kit out charity HQ
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 14 May 2013Jane Holmes is chief executive of Wokingham-based charity Building for the Future which provides support and activities for disabled children.
2. Jane Holmes Blog: Please treat disabled children with the same attitude you would anyone else
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 26 March 2013One of the things that upsets parents of disabled children most of all is people having a patronising attitude towards their children.
3. Jane Holmes Blog: Great to see new town centre, but shops must be disabled-friendly
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 12 March 2013It’s great to see that plans for the town centre regeneration are finally underway. Wokingham has great potential, wonderful people and a rich history.
4. Jane Holmes Blog: Cornwall councillor's comments could come back to bite him
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 06 March 2013I’m sure we’ve all come across dodgy local councillors in our time.
5. Jane Holmes: Tube-feeding is the right choice for parents with disabled children
Get Wokingham, Monday 25 February 2013When you have a baby, you feed it.
6. Jane Holmes Blog: Parents can accept their child is disabled
Get Wokingham, Monday 04 February 2013The other day I met someone whose baby had a naso-gastric feeding tube.
7. Jane Holmes Blog: Please don't make us fight more than we have to
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 23 January 2013I've probably said this before, but if you asked us parents of disabled children what they spend most of our time doing, most of us would say 'fight'.
8. Jane Holmes Blog: Paying for equipment is tough, but what is the answer?
Get Wokingham, Friday 11 January 2013One of the best things about running a charity for families with disabled children is that meet and make friends with so many new people, many of whom face the same kinds of challenges that we do.
9. Jane Holmes: Christmas crisis shows what really matters
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 18 December 2012Christmas is always a bitter-sweet time for me.
10. Jane Holmes Blog: Comedians' cheap laughs at expense of the disabled never funny
Get Wokingham, Friday 07 December 2012There's been a lot of publicity over the last couple of years surrounding comedy directed at disabled people.
