Pete Donnelly (he/him/his)
Founder
The Wheelchair Skills College
England - London (South)
Biography
Pete Donnelly has been a wheelchair user for 16 years and spent more than a decade working in third sector disability organisations. Pete is the Founder and Managing Director of The Wheelchair Skills College, driving forwards a vision of ensuring that every wheelchair has access to build confidence and independence.
Pete brings experience from working in local, national and global charities focusing on empowering disabled people through skill development, advocacy and campaigning for a more inclusive society.
With goals of making societal change happen, Pete aims to empower the disabled community while challenging the antiquated structures that are there to support.
Outside of his professional work, Pete enjoys an amphibious lifestyle with water-skiing taking up many of the summer months and scuba diving in pre-pandemic times.
Q Exchange ideas
Blog posts
Using social media to share lived experience and improve lives
Q member Pete Donnelly describes how, drawing on his own lived experience, he is making wheelchair skills available to wheelchair users across the UK, building confidence and independence through social media.
My Improvement Journey: Pete Donnelly
Pete Donnelly, Founder and Managing Director at the Wheelchair Skills College, shares his improvement journey and invites you to join the Third sector Special Interest Group.
Harnessing lived experience to address health inequalities
Q member Pete Donnelly tells us about the impact wheelchair skills have made to his life in 15 years of using a wheelchair and shares an idea on how to build confidence and independence for all 1.2 million wheelchair users across the UK.
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Areas of interest
- Access
- Collaboration and networking
- Community and voluntary
- Disability
- Funding and sustainability
- Inequalities
- Leadership
- Long-term conditions
- Patient experience
Groups
- Third sector
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- Power of Storytelling in Health
- Community Hospitals SIG: sharing good practice
- Service Design
- Network Weaving learning series
- Sustainable Healthcare
- Liberating Structures in healthcare
- Oxford AHSN (Thames Valley area) Group
- Making use of patient experience
- Bridging Networks
- Q Special Interest Groups/Communities of Practice
- Reimagining Health and Care
- Co-production
- Communities of Practice
- Q Connectors