Hertfordshire PASS aims to be ‘a user-driven charity using employment and self directed support to enable disabled people to live more independently’.

Its key projects are:
WorkABILITY—enabling young disabled people to  access work, funded by the Big Lottery, and
Payroll for disabled people who employ their own carers—including telephone support by disabled people for disabled people.

Hertfordshire PASS’s mission

To further develop as a highly respected, effective, well networked, responsive and professionally run charity—driven by disabled people, delivering socially enterprising, and creative solutions (through employment), so making a significant impact on the lives of disabled people, and the county of Hertfordshire.

Values

We value:

• The opportunity for disabled people to lead independent lives, and to contributing to making society a ‘better place’ for us all,
• The lived-experience of disabled people, more than the views and opinions of the ‘powerful’ – in informing policy and practice,
• The skills, expertise, wisdom, passion and unrealised potential disabled people have for shaping and determining the meetings, projects, organisations, and policies that impact on them—usually determined by others,
• The opportunity for disabled people to take up appropriate roles (stakeholder, manager, or citizen) rather than just the ‘disabled’, and
• The Social Model of Disability.

The way we work

Hertfordshire PASS strives to create a safe, supportive, challenging and consistent setting for disabled people to:

• Explore, share and learn from their own, and others experiences,
• Shape the purpose and agenda of meetings, events, projects and PASS itself,
• Understand the wider context in which PASS is operating, to appreciate the constraints and opportunities available,
• Monitor the work of PASS, its staff and other resources to ensure PASS’s aim is being met,
• Work or volunteer for PASS, and
• Take up positions of leadership and authority in leading PASS forward.