Scope Awards

What are the Scope Awards? 

The Scope Awards celebrate those who are working to end disability inequality. 

We want to hear from individuals, groups and organisations. Anyone who is working to create an equal future for disabled people. We want to share your stories. To amplify disabled voices and build a movement of change. 

The Scope Awards bring people together, allowing us to use our collective power to change attitudes and achieve our mission of an equal future for disabled people. 

Host

Adam Pearson 

A photo of Adam Pearson. He has short brown hair and wears a white shirt and black jacket.

Adam Pearson is an award-winning disability advocate, actor, presenter and speaker.

Adam was nominated as Presenter of the Year at the Grierson UK Documentary Awards in 2016. As an actor, he has been nominated for Best Supporting Performance at The Gotham Film Awards and the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

He has been widely recognised for his award-nominated, supporting role in A24’s A Different Man, co-starring Sebastian Stan and Renata Reinsve. Adam also co-starred in the BAFTA-nominated film, Under The Skin, with Scarlett Johansson.

Adam is an ambassador for The King’s Trust, Changing Faces and Us In A Bus. He also won a RADAR Award and a Diana Award for his campaigning work. Adam has previously been named on The Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100 List as well as being nominated for Celebrity of the Year at the Sense Awards.

Scope Awards 2024 highlights

 

Video transcript

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the scope disability equality awards are

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really our opportunity to celebrate

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those people who are making the biggest

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difference in terms of an equal future

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for disabled people here in the

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UK we want equality and together as a

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movement we can make that change

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happen the work that the nominees have

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done really represents the high quality

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of the talent in our community but also

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how high our aspirations are as well and

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the things that we want to achieve and

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how we want to be seen and represented

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in society and the winner is Ralph and

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KT productions here in ITV

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Studios I want to say massive thank you

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to allocated te and also thank you so

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much events like the scope Awards can

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really help with transforming attitudes

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around disability one of the main

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challenges is that people still don't

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understand what disability means who are

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disabled people what do we look like Dr

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Raji it's about inspiring the Next

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Generation don't let anything stop you

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believe in yourself and if people say

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you can't do it that's just Petrol in

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your engine just go for

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it this is one of the most diverse award

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ceremonies I've seen in a long time both

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across what the awards are for but

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inside the people that are nominated for

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the amazing work they do we've seen

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everybody from sports stars to companies

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like

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Lego we just want to say massive thank

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you um we're happy and honored to accept

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this award it means to well for us it's

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been a true joy to produce this product

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it was actually the blind Community who

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came to Lego with the idea of making

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Lego BR bricks we simply put it into

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production Awards like this don't only

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platform people from disabled

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backgrounds or doing work in disabled

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communities but they allow people within

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the community to see other people as

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well zahari

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[Applause]

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briam when you feel like you're putting

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your head above the parit and you're

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speaking out on behalf of a group of

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people it can feel quite isolating but

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to just see the room full of people up

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there and know that you're not alone in

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doing that this is Absolut brilliant

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feeling having an event like this puts

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it into people's eyes there's people out

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there the extra mile to create change so

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people of all different disabilities can

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live an easier life if you're interested

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in getting on this journey of fighting

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for disability equality as a whole

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Community here and we can achieve it

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stronger better faster together

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Dates for your diary 

  • Shortlist announced: 3 March 2025  
  • Scope Awards ceremony: 15 May 2025  

Nominations were open from Tuesday 17 September to Tuesday 19 November 2024.