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…
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Scots With Lived Experience To Lead The Way With £100K Funding Boost
A National Lottery cash boost announced today (Monday 1st July) will support Scots with lived experience to develop as leaders within their communitie…
ERSA Employability Awards 2019 winners announced
The winners of the 2019 ERSA (Employment Related Services Association) Employability Awards, were announced, recently at a ceremony in London. The awa…
Saddling up for charity cycle with Derwen College
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…
Poppy Factory Win The Disability And Health Employment Award at ERSA Awards 2019
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…
Minister for Disabled People Welcomes Groundbreaking Tiny Hotel
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…
UnLtd and Scope join forces to fight back against the disability employment gap
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…
Microsoft announces new tools to help disabled schoolchildren
Most curriculum subjects flow through text and pupils with visual and learning (intellectual) disabilities can find themselves ‘locked out’ of learnin…
One in three with learning disabilities fear being victimised in a new job, survey finds
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 …
Why Study? Able’s Guide To The Benefits Of Further Education
Education is about far more than learning and can really help to enrich your life…Disabled people might regard studying for further qualifications as …
Be The Difference Employment Initiative Gives Support And Advice
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…
Harrow’s Special Schools Come Together To Showcase Pupils’ Creativity
On Thursday 16 May, children with special needs and disabilities from five Harrow schools came together at Harrow Arts Centre for an afternoon showcas…
Columnist Heather Lacey: Bringing my whole, true self to work
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…
Growing Demand For Disability Confident Employers
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…
Step and Stone Celebrate their Successes!
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…
Students with vision impairment meet Chris Skidmore MP
Chris Skidmore MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation visited the University of Birmingham to take part in a roundta…
Findings reveal people with mental health conditions waiting too long for workplace support
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…
Gearing up for Mack’s Challenge at Derwen College
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…
UnLtd joins forces with City & Guilds Group
A new partnership between UnLtd and City & Guilds Group will provide funding for social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to create positive change in…
Able Magazine is the official media sponsor of the Disability and Health Employment category at the ERSA Awards for 2019
This week, ERSA announced the finalists for the 2019 Employability Awards. The list of finalists includes a wide range of organisations and indiv…
New standard launched to recognise exemplar employers of disabled people
Social Enterprise Mark CIC, the award-winning social enterprise accreditation authority, has expanded its portfolio of services with the launch of a n…
Finalists for 2019 ERSA Employability Awards announced
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…
New research shows greater action needed on workplace adjustments
Findings from a new and extensive survey on workplace adjustments were announced today (25 April) at Business Disability Forum’s annual conference in …
The Lego Foundation and Lego Group Team Up With Blind Associations To Pilot Lego Braille Bricks
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…
Charity workers celebrate one year anniversary of special shop which helps people with learning disabilities
United Response charity workers are celebrating the first anniversary of their new Folkestone charity shop which helps local people with a learning di…