Employability Project

Ability Net North East
AbilityNet is a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Whatever your health condition or age you can find a solution that will help you stay in touch and enjoy life to the full. We supported 490,000 people in 2005 including care professionals, employers, teachers and central and local government.
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Access To Work
Access To Work is available to help overcome the problems resulting from disability. It offers practical advice and help in a flexible way that can be tailored to suit the needs on the individual in a particular job.
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AIRS
AIRS aims to provide information of all kinds in an accessible form to people who have difficulty reading print.
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Arthritis Care
There are nine million people with arthritis in the UK. That’s nine million individuals, plus their families, each affected in a unique way.

From high quality information and support to empower you to take control of your arthritis, to campaigning for change… Arthritis Care is here for you.

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Azure
Azure provides a wide range of services to people with disability throughout the North East. Our mission is "Improving the lives of people with disability".

At any one time we provide services to hundreds of people with disability. Since the Charity began those who have benefited from our work is numbered in the thousands.

Azure is committed to providing an environment where individual development is nurtured and in which fulfilling careers may be pursued.

We have a number of Supported Businesses that provide employment and training opportunities for people with disability. These are Azure Garden Centre, Azure Printing, Azure Nurseries, Azure Landscapes and Azure Rolawn.

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Barnados
Barnardo’s is the leading UK children’s charity. We offer a wide range of support services for children, young people and their families, helping children who are young carers, for example, looking after a sick or disabled relative. Our website will tell you more about our work and how you can help children like these young carers.
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BASE
BASE is a membership organisation for supported employment agencies and supported businesses in the UK. This site gives a wide range of information and services to our members and others interested in supported employment.

BASE has been formed by the merger of the Association for Supported Employment (AfSE) and the National Association for Supported Employment (NASE).

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Cancer Bridge
Practical support for those with chronic illness and cancer, their families, supporters and friends.
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Contact a Family
CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) puts donors in control of their giving, and helps charities make the most of what they get.
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Department for Work & Pensions (DWP)
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is here to promote opportunity and independence for all, help individuals achieve their potential through employment and work to end poverty in all its forms.

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Diabetes UK
Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
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Disability Discrimination Act 1995
From the Office of Public Sector Information
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Disability Discrimination Act 2005
From the Office of Public Sector Information
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Disability North Direct
Disability North aims to promote inclusion, independence and choice for disabled people.
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Disability Rights Commission (DRC)
'We want a society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens'

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Disabled Go
DisabledGo provides free detailed access information for disabled people across the UK. Our detailed access information will empower you to judge for yourself which hotels, cinemas, restaurants, solicitors' offices, pubs, train stations - all kinds of shops and services - are accessible to your particular needs.
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Disabled Workers
The Disabled Workers Co-operative is a registered charity that helps disabled people to help themselves. Our aim is twofold - to raise the independence of disabled people (for those that want it) by enabling them to take an active role in the economy and achieve a greater sense of self-worth and also to raise awareness of the contribution that disabled people can make to society.
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Dyslexia Action
Dyslexia Action is a national charity and the UK's leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties.

We are specialists in assessment and tuition, and the largest supplier of teacher training in this field. Our services are available from 26 centres around the country

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Dyslexia North
Dyslexia North have extensive experience of working in a wide range of educational contexts including LEAs, colleges of FE, and institutions within the private sector including a number of independent schools, and Euro Medicare Clinic (NE).
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Dyspraxia Foundation
Dyspraxia Foundation are a UK charity which exists to help people to understand and cope with dyspraxia. We are a resource for parents, for teenagers and adults who have the condition, and for professionals who help all of them.
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EFOD
The Employers' Forum on Disability is the world's leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Funded and managed by nearly 400 members, we make it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers. This site includes information about us, our publications, events, and information on the DDA.
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Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities (EOFPWD)
Employment Opportunities is the national charity dedicated to creating routes into employment for people with all disabilities and medical conditions. Founded in 1980 by ten City of London employers, we now have local centres in England, Scotland and Wales, plus a head office in the City.
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Equality North East
The aims of the Equality North East website are to:-
Establish one comprehensive, central information service giving advice and guidance on equal opportunities employment issues.
Provide this service 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Establish a network of centres with free internet access.
Encourage employers to ensure equality of opportunity for their employees.
Support Employers to maintain a skilled and committed workforce for the mutual benefit of both employers and employees.
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ESF
The European Social Fund (ESF) helps people improve their skills and, consequently, their job prospects. Created in 1957, the ESF is the EU's main source of financial support for efforts to develop employability and human resources. It helps Member States combat unemployment, prevent people from dropping out of the labour market, and promote training to make Europe's workforce and companies better equipped to face new, global challenges.
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Hearing Concern (Newcastle)
Hearing Concern is a national charity which helps deaf and hard of hearing people to combat the isolation of hearing loss through support, advice and information
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LSC
The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive.
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Mencap
Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
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Motor Neurone Disease Trust (NE)
The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association is the only national organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland dedicated to the support of people with MND and those who care for them.

The MND Association is a charity working to help people with MND secure the care and support they need, while promoting research into causes, treatments and a cure.
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MS Society
The mission of the MS Society is to end the devastating effects of MS.
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National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
A national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment.
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Newcastle Citizens Advice Bureau
Newcastle Citizens Advice Bureau is an independent charity. Our service is free, independent, impartial and confidential. We have three offices in Newcastle and also run community advice sessions. We can offer advice by letter, and can be contacted by email, fax or and telephone.
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Newcastle Parent Partnership
Parent Partnership provides information, support and advice
volunteers to support parents,
someone to listen to your concerns.
For parents/carers of children and young people with special education needs.

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Newcastle Society for Blind People
Newcastle Society for Blind People has been caring for blind and visually impaired people of all ages since 1867. It is older than the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and takes pride in its range of services and its relationship with its clients.

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Northern Counties College
"Our mission at The Northern Counties College is to improve the life
skills of disabled people who need significant support to access high
quality learning. By improving life skills we seek to improve the life
chances of students. Life chances mean the opportunities that people
have to enjoy life to the full... which is why we describe our
college as a college for a better life."
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Remploy
Remploy creates independence for disabled people through work.
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RNIB
National UK Charity providing a good range of information for blind and partially sighted people.
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Shaw Trust
Shaw Trust is a national charity that provides training and work opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market due to disability, ill health or other social circumstances. We are the largest UK provider of employment services for disabled people.
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Skills for People
Skills for People is a voluntary organisation based in Newcastle upon Tyne and working throughout the North East and nationally. Our main aim is to support people with learning and/or physical disabilities to speak up for themselves and have more control in their lives.
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Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001
From the Office of Public Sector Information
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The Percy Hedley Foundation
The Percy Hedley Foundation is largest regional charity for people with cerebral palsy, communication difficulties and hearing impairment education, family support, schools, further education, respite care, residential and day care, support for children and adults with cerebral palsy and communication difficulties.
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Trade Union Congress (Local & National)
With member unions representing over six and a half million working people, we campaign for a fair deal at work and for social justice at home and abroad.

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Whizzkidz
Whizz-Kidz changes disabled children's lives - literally overnight. By providing them with customised mobility equipment, training and advice, we actually give them something much more important. We give them the independence to live a life of freedom.
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Workable Solutions
WorkAble Solutions, a unique employment resource for persons with disabilities, employers, and Human Resources professionals in British Columbia (BC).
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