There are no current active PASTEL campaigns, but we are always willing to consider causes which help Carers and/or those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.

• If I could change one thing… That's the question the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign asked more than 800 children, young people and their parents. The report found:

The top three things children and young people wanted to change were:

* to have more fun things to do
* more respect for disabled people
* to make it everyone's right to get a good education

The top three things parents wanted to change were:

* to not have to fight for basic support
* to be included in their communities
* to get education to meet their child's needs

Patrick, one of the young people responded:
‘I get fed up because there aren't enough places to go with suitable activities for young people, especially teenagers who have learning difficulties, like me. If there were places with lots of different things to do, I wouldn't be stuck at home with my mum and dad or on the computer all the time like I am

now.'

One parent commented:
‘I would change things so that we actually get the services and equipment we are entitled to without

having to

a) find out about it by chance

b) fight till we are exhausted

c) have to go begging.'

To find out more about this campaign:

Every Disabled Child Matters
c/o Council for Disabled Children
National Children's Bureau
8 Wakley Street
London EC1V 7QE
tel: 020 7843 6448
info@edcm.org.uk

• Meanwhile PASTEL is sponsoring the "Saxmundham Community" website (www.saxcom.org.uk ),

which focuses on promoting local voluntary and community groups, and partnerships, who serve the local IP17 post code area, in the Suffolk Coastal district of East Suffolk.

It also helps those local residents looking for sources of information, news, advice and support for local needs, as met by the local voluntary and community groups.