[4] The organisation took over the running of the local Dial-a-Ride service and were the driving force behind Forum@Greenwich, a community initiative for full accessibility and equality of opportunity.
[4] Hurst became a member of the Impact Foundation UK, an international initiative against avoidable disability.
She, Sir John Wilson (the Chair of Impact), and Henry Enns the Chair of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI), created a charitable organisation to support the United Nations Decade of Disabled People, known as the Global Project in support of Disabled People,[5] with Hurst as the Project Director, and the others on the board of Trustees, along with representatives from Inclusion International, the World Federation of the Deaf, the World Blind Union and others.
They did this by publishing, in three languages, large print and braille, monthly newsletters with stories and experiences from disabled individuals or their organisations all over the world, and also a series of Resource Kits, designed to help fledgling organisations get off the ground and give them the tools they needed to campaign and change the situation for disabled people in their locality.
[citation needed] Hurst was granted the Freedom of the London Borough of Greenwich in 1990,[8] and in 2003 won RADAR's Person of the Year Award, for the furtherance of Human Rights internationally.