Work Links

Breakthrough UK www.breakthrough-uk.com A website set up to offer guidance to people finding work and employment. You will find the newsletters at this link www.breakthrough-uk.co.uk/Resources/e-bulletins

PA Pool www.papool.co.uk Set up by Katy Etherington, PA Pool is a dedicated website for disabled people looking to employ a carer (PA) and carers (PAs) looking for work.

Reed www.reed.co.uk This is a website that is with the Jobcentre Plus but they also in jobs.

Monster www.monster.co.uk A Job service website

Department of Health valuingpeople.gov.uk online resource  launched for Valuing Employment Now. Videos also at www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Media/DH_114360

NCIL www.ncil.org.uk This is a website that has just started to get up and running which is partly for Personal Budgets Research.

Vinspired www.vinspired.com. Website which will help anyone looking for a volunteering job.

Leonard Cheshire www.LCDisability.org Helps people employ others.

Use My Ability http://www.usemyability.org/ Helping students develop their employability skills.

Media

BBC Ouch www.bbc.co.uk/ouch – The BBC’s Disability Website offers a sense to disabled people a sense of community, with a lively message board, news, features and it’s ever popular hilarious talkshow with edgy dark humour gives interest to disabled people

Mat Fraser www.matfraser.co.uk A Website of the disabled actor featured in our DVD of the forum theatre play Jack and The Beanstalk

Francesca www.francescamartinez.com A Website of the disabled actress who came to share her story of overcoming barriers to work with us in the Summer Job Forum

Larry Pulley www.pulleygraphics.co.uk Website set up by our graphics designer Larry Pulley who planned and helped us make both of our books: User Driven and User Driven 2.

Acorn PR www.acornpr.org.uk Website set up by Ingrid Marson who helps us with our press releases and who has helped us to raise our profile many times.

Mik Scarlet www.mikscarlet.co.uk. Website of the visitor who came to our summer job forum on July 14^th and is an access consultant for disabled people.

User Led Organisations

ALLFIE www.allfie.org.uk They are an national network run by disabled people and they campaign for disabled young people and disabled adults to be included in mainstream education including schools, colleges and universities. We worked with them on discussing with Lord Young, the Apprenticeships Minister about apprenticeships and the apprenticeships bill which was being decided in parliament. To have a look at the video that ALLFIE have been showing with Hertfordshire PASS click here

Essex Coalition of Disabled People www.ecdp.org.uk Enhancing the everyday lives of disabled people in Essex and beyond.

RYL Training and Consultancy www.ryl-training-consultancy.co.ukl Provide businesses and individuals with coaching and training materials. Danny West is an excellent coach who can help you with valuable coaching that may help.

Other

LD Forum www.ldforum.net. The LD Forum aims to be the friendly online discussion place for people with learning disabilities, their friends, families, advocates and supporters.