“Every time I go into a shop, I now look at it from a different perspective. It really surprised me to learn how regulated buildings are, and that there are very specific criteria you have to meet for things like the width of a door or gradient of a ramp,” says...
Pathways Academy, a programme to give disabled people the skills to start a career in inclusive design and access, has won best career development initiative at the Women in Housing Awards. Just three years after its launch in 2020, Pathways has already proven...
Josephine Mason has dreamed of a career in architecture since she was at school with other disabled children. “I’m autistic and disabled. I went to a school with lots of kids with disabilities, who needed all kinds of adaptations. I saw how we, as people, had to make...
Pathways Academy has proved instrumental in supporting young disabled Londoners into work, with 67% of Pathways graduates now working in inclusion-related roles. Three years on from its 2020 launch, Pathways has trained 40 young disabled people from 14 London...
Close to 200 people joined Habinteg and CAE’s 2022 Accessible Homes Week webinar to find out about the government’s July decision to raise the mandatory accessibility standard for new homes in England to the M4(2) Category 2 accessible and adaptable dwellings...
If you want to find out about grants to support your not-for-profit, and other funding opportunities, there are charitable organisations you can apply to for everything from the building refurbishment of scout huts, village halls, and access grants. Trust for London...
