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If you're disabled in some way, the following resources and work offers, may be of interest to you.
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Youreable.com
- a one-stop Internet site for disabled people,
their carers, family and friends.
Access All Areas - A DDA access audit company run by the disabled for the benefit of the disabled. Abilities Ltd Station House, Maiden Newton, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0AE 01300 321212 fax 01300 321270 Ableize Association
of Disabled Professionals 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 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 Disabled People's Electronic Village Hall: (Computer access for disabled people). Directgov - information for disabled people and carers
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. 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 Market Street, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire GL6 0BX, UK Phone: 01453-835 623 Fax: 01453-835 623. IANSYST 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) RADAR (The Royal Association
for Disability and rehabilitation) 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) 224 Great Portland Street, London W1N 6AA, UK Phone: 0207-388 1266 Fax: 0207-388 2034 Royal Association in Aid of Deaf People
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 (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.
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Magazines for the Disabled http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/
www.ablemagazine.co.uk
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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. Disabled Mystery Shoppers 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. Grass Roots 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. |
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