Interviewer: Sam
Interviewee: Will Bee
Will became involved with the National Bureau for Handicapped Students in about 1979 while studying at Sheffield University. After university he worked for the Greater London Association for Disabled People (1983-87 towards the end of this period it became of Disabled People). His work for GLAD included chairing Voluntary Organisations for Anti-Discrimination Legislation, the campaign group of disability charities which became Rights Now. In 1990, he moved Bristol to be Coordinator of Barton Hill Settlement and from 1995-2000, he worked for the Bristol Regeneration Partnership. He was a member of WECODP. In 2000 Will returned to disability work as the Wales Director of the Disability Rights Commission, a post he held until the Commission’s abolition in 2007. In this role, he was the lead Director on transport issues, and has kept up that interest becoming a member of the Disabled Person’s Transport Advisory Committee in 2008 and continuing to this day.