The Commonwealth Disabled People's Forum (CDPF) began in Kampala, Uganda in the run-up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 2007 to provide an organised voice for Disabled People's Organisations across the Commonwealth. In truth, it started on the floor of the adhoc Committee on the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in New York in 2005/6, when I, as the representative of the UK Disabled People's Council, met up with James Mwanda representing Kenya as a Kenyan Disabled Parliamentarian. In March 2008, at a meeting in London of delegates from 19 countries, organised largely by Mark Harrison who raised the money from the then UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Commonwealth Secretariat, CDPF was formally set up, a constitution was adopted, and an Executive Committee was elected. An office was established in India and the CDPF was registered there. In June 2009, a four-day meeting was held in Kampala, Uganda on the UN CRPD and to develop future plans. In 2009 and 2010 respectively, the Chair (Mwanda) and Vice-Chair (George Daniels of Trinidad) sadly died, which led to a hiatus.