Paul Hunt (activist)

Living in a Cheshire Home, Hunt organised fellow residents to demand a say over how the institution was run, and in 1972 wrote a letter to The Guardian inviting disabled people to form a group run entirely by themselves. That became the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation, whose 1976 statement drew the distinction between impairment and disability, the social restrictions imposed on people with impairments. It is where the British social model of disability starts.