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Dismantling disabling barriers one article at a time

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Support Crip Life™ This Christmas

 

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Christmas is a time for giving and receiving and supporting those in need. Here at Crip Life™, we want to continue to give you the best quality content, interesting stories, valuable advice and professional service.

But to achieve this, we need your help. This can be by giving us a financial contribution, providing feedback on our work, subscribing to our free newsletter and/or following us on social media.

Running an online magazine costs money with administrative costs such as hosting platforms, video conference platforms, SEO tools, accessibility tools, social media advertising fees, and much more.Plus, we’d like to grow our business by taking on more paid employees and freelancers and eventually get a decent income of our own. We’ve been searching and applying for funding schemes and grants but so far we have been unsuccessful!

We understand many people, particularly in the disability community, are financially struggling, which is why we are keeping our content and newsletters completely FREE.

But for us to keep creating our high level of content and grow our business, we have our unique advertising service and a platform that allows people to donate.

If you cannot afford to support us financially, subscribing to our free newsletter, following us on social media and engaging and sharing our content will help us grow traffic and sponsorship for the future.

5 ways you can support Crip Life™ this Christmas

1. Donate and support disability charities and organisations

Donate at Crip Life™ and support our inclusive venture

To grow our fab business, we need your help. If you can, please donate to our site and a proportion of your donation will go to worthy disability charities of our choice.

With the end of the year approaching, our co-founders Joanna Baker-Rogers and Emma Purcell have chosen a disability charity each to donate to this year:

AccessAdvisr

Joanna has chosen to donate to AccessAdvisr, an organisation that provides a platform for disabled people to rate and review accessibility at different places and transport stops.

The Academy for Disabled Journalists (ADJ)

Emma has chosen to donate to The Academy for Disabled Journalists, a unique initiative training disabled people and supporting the need to have their voices heard. This is such a great initiative and here at Crip Life™,  we know many people involved in this. We’ve even managed to grow our team through this scheme!

Please donate by Tuesday 31st December 2024 and a proportion of every donation will go to AccessAdvisr and ADJ. Donate Here >>>

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5. Advertising with our PWYC service in 2025

Advertise with Crip Life™ and get your product 

At Crip Life™, we’re flipping the script on traditional advertising. Our strategy? Pay What You Can (PWYC). This unique approach invites you to decide what our advertising is worth to you and what fits your budget – no set prices, no pressure.

We believe advertising should be accessible to everyone, no matter the size of your business or organisation. Whether you’re a startup, a nonprofit, or a big-name brand, we’d love to help you promote your product, service, or event. Ready to get started? Reach out to Joanna Baker-Rogers today at joanna@criplife.co.uk!

Curious about how it works? Check out our PWYC Advertising Clients list and read glowing reviews from businesses and organisations that have partnered with us.

Since our launch in May 2023, we’ve teamed up with over two dozen incredible clients, including Nimbus Disability, LanzAbility, Southbank Centre, the Royal Ballet and Opera and Transport for London.

Why wait? Let’s collaborate in 2025 and get your message out to the world. Visit our Work With Us page for more details.

Other ways to work with us

Alternatively, we offer cross-promotion opportunities for businesses and organisations.

We also welcome voluntary writers and we are open to personal stories.

Furthermore, we are calling all disabled researchers to publish their academic work relating to disability studies.

 

Thank you for your support

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Thank you everyone for all your support throughout 2024. We hope you’re all enjoying our work, the services we provide and the content we create. Please continue to support us by helping us with funding, giving us your feedback and engaging with us by subscribing to our newsletter, and following us on social media.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Let’s continue dismantling disabling barriers one article at a time!

 

    

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