Programme
9.45
Registration and Refreshments
10.20
Welcome by the chair: Khizar Hayat (Senior Project Officer, The Equality Team, Leeds City Council)
10.30
Opening remarks: Councillor Mohammed Iqbal, Lord Mayor of Leeds
10.45
Overview of ABA - Keynote speaker: Mark Priestley (University of Leeds)
11.00
Greg Mulholland (Lib. Dem. MP)
11.15
Confort break
11.30
Martin McKibbin (Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leeds)
11.45
Frank Ward (Henshaws Society for the Blind)
Inclusion defeating marginalistion - What's the real role of the Voluntary Sector?
12.00
Panel and questions from floor
12.30 to 13.30
Lunch and time to look around stalls, etc.
13.30
Introduction to the workshops
13.45 to 14.45
Workshops
14.45
Comfort break
15.00
Feedback from workshops
15.20
Closing remarks from chair
15.30
End of conference
