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User Name	WeeHiggi
Registration Date	2007-05-11 20:36:58
Last visit date	2008-07-25 11:48:44
Biography	Working for Communities. Disabled Achieve your potential.I have cerebral palsy/infantile paralysis, caused by a forcepts delivery at birth. I attended a school for handicapped children, then a seconday school for "ordinary children" where I was bullied, and attended hospitals for speech and physiotherapy for eleven years. I got on with my life. I did an engineering course and worked for forty years. I was interested in helping to improve my local community. I am a member of the committee of management of the local housing association for fourteen years, as I am interested in helping other to improve the housing and wider-action for the benefit of the community. I am also Chairman of their charitable trust subsiduary, and Chairman of WestWorks a community environmental company. I have also written a trilogy of manuscripts, a series of childrens stories, and four plays/screenplays, and pursuing publication and production.