The TDSP team are very excited to host their first podcast over the interwaves! Steve and Lucy share a fantastic time talking with Jo Aiyathurai and Laura Powell from Learn and Thrive and with Maya Patil - a super inspirational young lady with Down syndrome who lives in Hertfordshire (despite Steve's repeated insistence that she lives in Herefordshire!). Jo explains her journey as a mum of a daughter with Down syndrome, which saw her initially set up the Kent-based DS support group 21 Together before then branching out with a dedicated team, including digital marketing officer Laura, to create the Learn and Thrive project, which supports learners with Down’s syndrome to access specialist resources to help them, well...learn and thrive! We also chat with Maya about her super-packed, college-attending, horse-riding, acting and performing, Instagram starring and frequent Learn and Thrive-collaborating life! We also find out who prefers a real Xmas tree over a fake, who likes mince pies over Xmas pud, who is having turkey vs a nut roast (*ahem, Laura!) and where everyone stands on sprouts!

(We also discover that Steve likes to say the words 'nuance' and 'complex' quite a lot!)

To find out more about Learn and Thrive visit their website here

Discover more about Maya via her Instagram page: @be_more_maya

Enjoy.

Don't forget you can join the conversation by emailing: podcast@dscheshire.org.uk

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Steve and Lucy are delighted to welcome superstar guest, Ben Wilson to the TDSP bunker where they talk about his lifelong love of dance, which led Ben to become an associate artist at Cheshire Dance and an invitation to curate and perform an original piece of choreography for this year's Kaleidoscope festival at StoryHouse Live in Chester. They also spend FAR too much time discussing CenterParcs, their favourite pasta and the best movie version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (*cough* Gene Wilder).

Enjoy.

Don't forget you can join the conversation by emailing: podcast@dscheshire.org.uk

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In episode 3 of our (soon-to-be award-winning) podcast, the #iChooseBoard welcome the newly-elected MP for Mid Cheshire, Andrew Cooper to the TDSP bunker. We broke the ice by going around the room, asking how everyone had spent their summer - full disclosure, Andrew went to Zakynthos - before then reminding ourselves about the recent #iChooseBoard meeting when we discussed the then-upcoming General Election and how we learned about the process of voting (using Lucy's brilliant easy-read materials). Then, after a quick coffee break, it was time to squirrel Andrew into the podcast bunker to start the grilling! He was a brilliant guest, deftly answering everything from "How much does an MP get paid?", to "What does the House of Commons smell like?" and everything in between. Although, we'll be honest; He will need to employ some considerable spin doctoring if he's to weather the political storm that will make landfall once the listening public learns of his answer to "What's your favourite biscuit?"!

Enjoy!

And don't forget; If you'd like to join the conversation, email us at: podcast@dscheshire.org.uk

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