 I know I won't usually start this way, but I think to explain a little bit about why I am here, I should start at the beginning. I had a car accident 7 years ago which resulted in spinal cord injury and as a result I'm paralyzed from the chest down and wheelchair bound. At this time I had the accident, it was just after I left school so obviously any plans I'd had for the future were dramatically altered. I woke up in intensive care about 3 months later and announced that instead of walking into law school I was going to be now rolling into art school. Mae'r cyntaf yn ymweld, ond mae'r cyffredig sy'n mynd i'w ymweld fel gweithio. Felly, dwi'n cael ei wneud o'r ysgol, ac yn ymweld, y BBC cwntwch i mi. Gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Ac yn ymweld, ychydig iawn, maen nhw'n iawn arall, oedd eu bod yn ôl. A gwnaethwch i'n gweithio'n gweithio ar y cyflawn ar y cwm. I'n gweithio'n gweithio ar Y Cyflawn, y Prif, ac ydych yn ymweld a'r wych, ac, yw'r ysgrifft fyddem o'r ei gweithio, yn defnyddio'r pwysig, ddiwedd yn gweithio'r fyddeud, a'r fydden nhw'n gweithio o'r fyddeud o'r cyfleoedd yn ymwybodaeth yw'r fyddech chi'n gweithio, a'r cyfleoedd, yw'n ymwybodaeth, yw'r gweithio'r fyddech chi'n gweithio, a'u gweithio'r pwysig o'r cyfleoedd. Am gwrs eich sefydli i chi fyddwch, ac mae wedi gweld i gair geissel o ydw i'n meddwl i gael Mae gennym eich sefydli i'w newid beth dyma gwaith beth yw'i weithio a gennym eich sgall Cymru maes iaith meddwl ciniaeth i gwen, mae gweithio'r meddwl yn iechyd a'r meddwl i gweithio a'r meddwl i gynhwys iaith weithio a'u girdwch i'w meddwl. Byddwch yma gweithio i gyd, mae'n gweithio gweithio'r meddwl a'i gwaith. I went all the way through, I didn't win, I came second. But nevertheless I came out and very excited to see what would happen for the girl that won. Who was a girl who had been born without her forearm? So quite a visual disability obviously. Anyway nothing did happen and all the doors that we thought the show may have opened into the industry for a disabled model was still closed. So this was quite frustrating. Anyway, I started doing some of my own things.ucking. I started setting up fashion shows and using disabled models and showcasing what disabled young women are still capable of doing. And around this time there was a young girl named Riam Deen who was born again without her forum and she was working in Abercrombie and Fitch, the American clothing company in London and she was working in the shops and she used to wear a cardigan to cover her prosthetic arm and it was summer, she took it off and she was fired basically for showing her arm. ac mae'n gweld fath o'r fath o'r lleolau. Ieithodd rhan o'r amser i'r amser fel y mae'r model yw eu bod yn ddiw i'w shef. Ac mae'n gwestiwch. Felly mae'n wneud i'r cyfform i gydig i gynhyrchu'r fath o'r ysgrifennu. Rwy'n gilydd ystod o'r hynny o'r fath o'r fath o'r fath o'r symud. Fe oherwydd mae'n fath o'r symud o'r symud o'r cyfforddau, byddwn o'n cynghraff iawn i'r cyfforddau. Anyway, so we started a campaign called Imperfect, and Imperfect is a play on the word obviously what is perfection, I'm perfect, we're all perfect in our own different ways. So the idea of the campaign was to bring together young disabled people and really inspire and motivate and empower them, but also to draw attention to those that were already doing very inspirational things at the same time, already out there being just incredible people anyway. So the campaign really took off and there were an enormous amount of supporters that wanted to get involved, disabled or not. They just want, they like the cause, they like the fact that actually there are young disabled people out there and they're just normal people and it's not something that should be hidden or ostracised. This is actually Riam, the girl that was fired from Abercrombie. So the campaign was really really exciting and it took off in a big way and we all had an amazing time and we started a clothing label and we wanted to sort of bridge the boundary between what was a disabled clothing company and what was actually just all inclusive, it was all about everyone, it wasn't about categorising in any way. Anyway, we lost funding because the recession hit and the investors couldn't fund it anymore, so we had to sort of put that on the back shelf, which is still the case, but anyway, there are still some exciting people out there doing some incredible things. This woman here is a woman I work with, Izzy Camilleri, who's a Canadian designer and she started creating clothing that was specifically to cater for people who are sat down. It's obviously not something that most of you would have to think about and actually something that I'd never really thought about, but we have to change how we wear our clothes. It's very simple, very, very small thing, but she started this very exciting movement of making people start to think that actually I have a talent to design clothing. Why don't I use that to help people that need it? So anyway, me and Izzy are working to promote this label and it's been really exciting, we've shaken it around the States and it's really gaining pace as well. But the thing that I'm doing now myself actually is something that I've recently designed called a mannequin. It's a kind of putmendu of the words mannequin and equal and it's about equality. What I'm trying to do is I've designed this chair, which is a wheelchair for a mannequin. The idea is that it sits in an in-store window or in the display and a mannequin sits in it, so it's sort of bringing in this whole entire demographic of disabled shoppers into the forefront. We shouldn't be ostracised, we do shop in shops, we do wear clothes, we should be in there too. So I designed this chair and it comes in a range of different colours. It's meant to act as an extension of the mannequin that it is seated. So if the mannequin's wearing predominantly black clothing, for example, it could be black or it can be polka dot, it can be anything. It needs to be to fit aesthetically and subtly into the display that it's within and really hope to kind of give people a sense, not just the wheelchair users but the entire disabled community that are actually sort of, we're all symbolised by that symbol of the wheelchair and to make them feel welcome, to make them not feel that they don't belong there, that these shops cater for them. So this is, I work with some London Bay shoe designer. We were messing around, we're trying to kind of show how my chair would work and how her shoes would work and just how the whole concept would work. And it was really, really, it's been very, very exciting and it has recently been launched in Debonham's in the UK. It's on the high street now. That's it, closer up. And it's... Basically, it is a very exciting first step and I think one of the things that I find is that my accident was not the worst thing that happened to me in many ways. It was the very best thing that happened to me. It has taken me around the world. It has brought me here to India. It has brought into my life new people, exciting people and it has given me the ability to live a much more happy and content life as a result of redefining my perspective and my priorities. But I do think that it comes with a responsibility and the responsibility that I find is that I have to react to the world around me that I've now come into this parallel universe of disability and to try and change things that need to be changed. And sitting here over the last few days and seeing some of the people speak and I think I've found it's very reassuring to know that a lot of you guys out there have started very small and as a result then moved on to something very, very much bigger and it's all about starting somewhere. And it's encouraging to know that even though I'm doing something very small just now, hopefully it might turn into something big in the future. So thank you for having me.