We’re on a mission to empower lives and change minds so that no person living with cerebral palsy ever feels alone or unheard.

Left: Lucy Webster, a white woman with short, dark blonde hair, smiling, wearing a blue suit and white top, sat in her wheelchair. Right: Rosie Jones, a white woman with long brown hair, wearing a denim jumpsuit, folding her arms and smiling.

Lucy Webster sits down with Rosie Jones for an exclusive insight into how the foundation came to be, what it hopes to achieve and why now?

Rosie Jones is a comedian, writer, actor and the founder and chair of trustees for The Rosie Jones Foundation. Lucy Webster is an anti-ableism campaigner working across journalism, publishing, events, community organising and social media to create a more accessible and more inclusive world for disabled people.

Rosie Jones is on a mission - and this time, it’s no laughing matter. The comedian is launching her new charitable foundation, aimed at alleviating the mental health crisis among young people with cerebral palsy (CP).

A lot of thought has gone into the foundation and what it will do. “You know me for my stand up, and for crying on Casualty,” Rosie says, “and I love my job. I love being in comedy, and I love making people laugh, but it got to a point where I was aware that I had a platform that not a lot of disabled people had, and I wanted to do something for good.” She started looking for charities and causes she could lend her voice to, especially ones for people with CP, but “there was a hole that needed to be filled, particularly when it came to teenagers and adults, looking at their mental health. So I made a very big, scary decision to start my own foundation.”