Access All Areas - A DDA access audit company run by the disabled for the benefit of the disabled.

Abilities Ltd
Provide a network of teleworkers, many of whom are disabled, who carry out such work as data processing, accounts and specialist skills including tachograph analysis and industrial market research.

Station House, Maiden Newton, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0AE

01300 321212 fax 01300 321270

Suitability, a partnership between Leonard Cheshire Disability, the Employers' Forum on Disability and Jobsgopublic, is an online job brokerage initiative for registered jobseekers, employers and mentors. It is backed by a team of advisers who identify the skills, talent and experience of disabled jobseekers and match them with employers.

Disabled jobseekers can contact personal advisors, connect with people with similar needs and goals, receive job alerts by SMS and access the Suitability CV Builder.

Employers can post vacancies online for free, recruit and hire staff, reach other companies through the Suitability Forum and sign up to virtual careers fairs.

Suitability builds on the success of Leonard Cheshire Disability's Workability initiative, that supports 8,000 disabled people to gain essential IT skills and a free reconditioned computer.

Ableize
UK disability and health web directory. Site includes advice, information, education, disabled goods, facilities and services with a comprehensive list of specific disabilities. Also includes access issues, news and the arts. Free submissions.

Association of Disabled Professionals
The ADP, founded in 1971, exists to provide a forum to enable disabled people to share personal experiences of successful professional development, and to help create conditions for other disabled people to realise their career and workplace ambitions.

The ADP is an organisation controlled and run by its disabled members, although non-disabled professional members make a valuable contribution. All ADP officers are themselves disabled and give their time voluntarily.

Today the ADP has amongst its members, disabled people who are working or who have worked as professionals or at managerial level in medicine, the law, health and social services, the church, politics, commerce, education, science and the arts.

disabilities.afreepress.com - Interactive news and information about disabilities. Contributors now can get paid for their work with authors receiving 50 percent of net ad sale revenues based on page views of their articles.

Blue Badge Training - Disability Awareness Training to business all over the UK.

CanDo: The Careers Advisory Network on Disability Opportunities is the UK's official information service covering employment/careers issues for disabled students and graduates

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers is a national charity, formed in 1991 on the initiative of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.

The Trust exists to make it easier for carers to cope by providing information, support and practical help to carers. The national network of over 100 independently-managed Carers Centres across the UK currently reaches well over 100,000 carers a year.

AbilityNet
A registered charity offering advice and information for disabled people about computers.

Phone: 0800-269 545 Fax: 01926 407425.

Connections Disability Employment Pages: Care as these jobs do not appear to be vetted and at least one scam was listed when I last looked.

Help for Disabled Entrepreneurs
The Disabled Entrepreneurs Network is an online resource to help disabled people develop and grow their own business.

Disabled People's Electronic Village Hall: (Computer access for disabled people).

Directgov - information for disabled people and carers
Directgov provides a single point of online access to government services and information - including employment, financial support, rights, education, independent living and much more.

Employ Tourism: Assisting tourism sector organisations to maximise employment opportunities for disabled people.

Employment Service: (Disabilities information). The Employment Service can provide specialist support and advice to disabled people and employers through Disability Employment Advisers (DEAs) who are usually based in Jobcentres and work as part of a local Disability Service Team.

Disability Equality and Diversity Training - Equality Link Consultancy is a leading edge company specialising in disability equality and diversity training in the work place. They provide bespoke training, consultancy and auxiliary services to ensure that your service meets its legislative requirements and deliver service excellence at all levels.

Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities provides the largest site on learning disability issues in the United Kingdom including a section regarding employment for people with learning disabilities.

GLADNET: (Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training).

Guild of Disabled Homeworkers
Offers services for disabled people including a shop where items made by disabled people at home are sold on their behalf with no commission. They can also supply information about wheelchair aids to help with work.

Market Street, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire GL6 0BX, UK

Phone: 01453-835 623 Fax: 01453-835 623.

IANSYST
Offers a range of computer support tools for the disabled, especially dyslexics.

Phone: 01223-420 104

OUTSET - Organisation dedicated to the training and personal development of disabled people and those who have experienced personal or health setbacks.

PACT (Placing Assessment and Counselling Teams)
PACT has several regional groups assisting disabled people back into employment or into self-employment. Contact them through Disability Employment Advisers in your local Job Centre.

RADAR (The Royal Association for Disability and rehabilitation)
A pan-disability organisation providing information on employment, social services, holidays for the disabled, travel, etc.

Unit 12, City Forum, 250 City Road, London EC1V 8AF, UK

Phone: 0207-250 3222 Fax: 0207-250 0212

Remploy: expanding job opportunities for disabled people.

RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind)
It has a self-employment development unit which advises visually impaired people about grants and equipment, etc.

224 Great Portland Street, London W1N 6AA, UK

Phone: 0207-388 1266 Fax: 0207-388 2034

Royal Association in Aid of Deaf People
Provides information on equipment for people with hearing disabilities. It also offers interpreting and training in deaf awareness and sign language. Main geographical area: East Anglia, London, Kent and Surrey.

St Marks Centre for Deaf People, Cottage Place, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1NL, UK

Phone: 01245-283 777 Fax: 01245-346 609 Minicom: 01245-257 704

Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Sound Advantage, part of the RNID, sells equipment for people with hearing difficulties.

Sound Advantage (RNID), 1 Metro Centre, Welbeck Way, Peterborough PE2 7UH, UK

Phone: 01733-361 199. Text phone: 01733-238 020. Fax: 01733-361 161.

Shaw Trust: is a national charity that provides routes to work for people who are disadvantaged in the workplace due to disability, ill-health or other social circumstances. Each year, Shaw Trust supports over 10,000 people across England, Scotland and Wales through job preparation, job finding, job support, job retention and job creation

Skill: Skill promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.

 

 

The Moby Project is a free Mobile Recording Studio project for the disabled who might otherwise be unable to fulfil their dream to make a recording. It will operate from an HGV type vehicle, or Portable Cabin transported to a pre-arranged area for a limited time period. They need expert assistance to create a great studio, and to help raise funds and are inviting the music industry, and celebrities to involve themselves in helping the disabled express their creative talent. Disability Projects, Groups, Organisations, and Individuals are invited to make this project a success. This is the first of its kind and as such is a ground breaking venture that we hope will reach across the UK.

There are now several companies looking for mystery shoppers, much of which is carried out exclusively online making it ideal for those of you with limited mobility or other disabilities. You'll find a selection of the most active at http://www.homeworkinguk.com/mystery.htm or you may be interested in Grass Roots which is specifically geared to measuring the experiences of the disabled.

We would like to hear from disabled people who would be interested in joining our panel of Mystery Shoppers. This involves pretending to be an ordinary customer and showing interest in the goods or services on offer from a particular outlet. For instance, you could be asked to visit a local supermarket or telephone/textphone a bank asking a few simple questions.

The purpose is very simple; Grass Roots is commissioned to check the accessibility of banks, shops, restaurants, car showrooms etc for disabled customers and how such customers are treated in general.

The information is then reported back in confidence to the company concerned enabling them to improve their services where standards are found wanting. This is particularly relevant when we consider that under the new Disability Discrimination Act it is now illegal to discriminate against a disabled person on the basis of their disability.

Disabled Mystery Shoppers will be paid between £10.00 - £12.00 for a personal visit,along with travel expenses and food expenses if the visit is to a restaurant. For telephone, textphone or typetalk mystery shops, the fee is more likely to be £4.00 - £7.00.

Disabled Mystery Shopping is not only fun and interesting but valuable as well. It helps companies do what we know to be right and what the law says they should, in providing adequate access and even-handed treatment.

Furthermore, with over 8 million disabled people in the U.K. your view counts!

If you would like to receive more details about how to become one of our specialist Mystery Shoppers, please contact:

James Ewart , The Grass Roots Group, Bellis House, Icknield Industrial Estate, Tring, Herts, HP23 4BR

E-Mail : james_ewart@grg.co.uk

We can also be contacted either by telephone, textphone or typetalk.

Telephone: 01442 829278 Textphone: 01442 829335.