January is always a tough month.
For some it’s tough because of weather, some money and others because of a January mindset.
Our Art Group started the month with the topic of New Beginnings. Our title image was done in our art group by Barbara.
2025 is a year of new beginnings or maybe returning beginnings in America with Donald Trump taking his second stint as President. The outspoken Trump has already made comments and decisions which directly impact diversity in America, which can have ripple effects across the world.
It may be a very lonely and hard time for people to be part of any minority community.

Our photography group were challenged to take indoor photos in January. This was a tough task for many but Christine showed her sense of humour with this photo of her cat Toby.
Toby is a great companion and friend to Christine and often makes appearances on our online groups.
January saw All 4 Inclusion selected as a finalist in Community Group of the Year in the Empowerment Awards. These awards are organised by Talks with MS in line with their second birthday.
Founder and director Scott Whitney is also a finalist in Disability Personality and Sarah Morris was also nominated in the MS Personality of the Year Award.
Whilst all awards had a high quality standard, the MS Personality of the Year had lots of nominations.
If you want to vote for All 4 Inclusion or Scott you can do so using the link below
All 4 Inclusion have kicked off the year with two great webinars.
Our aim is to bring you two webinars a month and to build a library of lived experience talks on our YouTube channel.
If you haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channel, you can do it using the link below
We are currently on 99 subscribers, who will send us over the 100 mark ??
But You Tube is also somewhere where two very talented friends of All 4 Inclusion have been showcasing their talents
Megan Cullen, a disabled Northern Actress has written and directed an independent short film completely filmed using a mobile phone
Jack Smit, a Sale Shark Fan and Film Critic has a humorous and satirical look back at 2024.
Jack talks films, rugby and major events. He looks at terrible tv adverts or has he calls them “Crapverts”.
A really well put together video by Jack.
Jack and his Mum Nickki have met a few All 4 Inclusion friends at Sale Sharks on different occasions.
Nickki in particular engages in our Facebook group.
This leads us nicely in to our bucket collection at Sale Sharks in January this year.
A mixture of people involved with All 4 Inclusion and MOVE online shook their buckets and promoted our just giving page raising over £650 for All 4 Inclusion.
Our board has decided we want to do
more bucket shaking and will be looking for places to do this.
January saw Eveleena Wise named as our member of the month by Sarah Morris.
Eveleena is a popular member of All 4 Inclusion and is always looking to support others.
Thank you very much Eveleena.
Also a huge thankyou to Sarah who does so much work that often goes unnoticed with All 4 Inclusion.
Another thankyou needs to go to Matt who is always thinking of new ideas for those within All 4 Inclusion and Myra who has been busy making sure everyone heads in to the weekend with a smile on their face.
We are in to February, a month where Kevin Daws has lined up some really interesting interviews.
I won’t tell you who they are with, but well done Kevin on arranging these.
Speak soon,
Scott

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