SchoolMates – Bringing people together
A Derby-based businessman has overcome adversity to establish a new online business. Chris Goodwin launched SchoolMates, a networking site that brings…
A Derby-based businessman has overcome adversity to establish a new online business. Chris Goodwin launched SchoolMates, a networking site that brings…
A National Lottery cash boost announced today (Monday 1st July) will support Scots with lived experience to develop as leaders within their communitie…
The winners of the 2019 ERSA (Employment Related Services Association) Employability Awards, were announced, recently at a ceremony in London. The awa…
A growing team of cyclists have been in training for a challenging charity bike ride around Lake Vyrnwy on adapted and conventional bikes in aid of De…
The Poppy Factory is delighted to have won the Disability and Health Employment award at this year's ERSA awards. The Poppy Factory’s employability p…
Three-bed Premier Inn will help young people check-in to the work of work. The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin Tomlinson welco…
A partnership between UnLtd and Scope is offering funding and support for social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to get more disabled people into jobs a…
Most curriculum subjects flow through text and pupils with visual and learning (intellectual) disabilities can find themselves ‘locked out’ of learnin…
More than a third (35%) of people with learning disabilities or autism in England fear they would be victimised in a new job by colleagues because of …
Education is about far more than learning and can really help to enrich your life…Disabled people might regard studying for further qualifications as …
Regular readers of Able Magazine will already know that we launched our employment initiative, ‘Be the Difference’, in 2018 with the specific aim of h…
On Thursday 16 May, children with special needs and disabilities from five Harrow schools came together at Harrow Arts Centre for an afternoon showcas…
For many disabled and chronically ill job-hunters, the dreaded thought of whether to tick that box to say you’re disabled is something that can be pos…
Regular Able Magazine readers will know that this page is usually taken up by the Minister for Disabled People. Since our last edition, the then minis…
In Bristol, on the 27th May 2019 Step and Stone found out that they had won £49,750 in the National Lottery-funded People’s Projects (West Country Eas…
Chris Skidmore MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation visited the University of Birmingham to take part in a roundta…
Some people with mental health conditions could be waiting for over a year for employers to put in place much-needed workplace adjustments, new findin…
Derwen College staff and students will be cycling the distance to Lake Vyrnwy and back in training for ‘Mack’s Challenge’ - a student’s sponsored cycl…
A new partnership between UnLtd and City & Guilds Group will provide funding for social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to create positive change in…
This week, ERSA announced the finalists for the 2019 Employability Awards. The list of finalists includes a wide range of organisations and indiv…
Social Enterprise Mark CIC, the award-winning social enterprise accreditation authority, has expanded its portfolio of services with the launch of a n…
Yesterday, ERSA announced the finalists for the 2019 Employability Awards at its AGM in London. The list of finalists includes a wide range of organis…
Findings from a new and extensive survey on workplace adjustments were announced today (25 April) at Business Disability Forum’s annual conference in …
Motivated by stories and ideas from blind people around the world, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group will pilot a grassroots innovation that can help…
United Response charity workers are celebrating the first anniversary of their new Folkestone charity shop which helps local people with a learning di…