Patchwork Hub

Patchwork Hub is working to break down the barriers for disabled people across work and recruitment. Led by lived experience of disability, we connect talented disabled job seekers to opportunities with inclusive employers that are committed to accessibility and disability inclusion.

Since we started, we’ve connected our job seekers to thousands of job opportunities on our employment platform, recruiting multiple disabled people into permanent positions across seniority levels. We also work hard, alongside our partners and collaborators, to ensure that policymakers listen and take action around the changes that are needed in the disability employment space.

At the same time, we help to drive awareness around disability inclusion and accessibility across the organisations we work with through our training, consultancy and support services. We’ve worked with a large number of companies, from FTSE100 employers to small businesses and charities, to support them in building awareness, changing practices and processes and embedding more inclusive ways of working into their organisations.

Patchwork Hub has big plans to scale up the range of opportunities and support for our job seekers.

Alongside our expanding jobs board, we’ve now got some wonderful partnerships with really great, disabled-led organisations and we can’t wait to share what we have planned for the year ahead!

At Patchwork Hub, we wish that more organisations would prioritise disability inclusion in their agendas.

Far too often, disability inclusion is left out of the conversation about inclusive workplaces, but this not only harms and excludes disabled people, it also holds back the organisations who miss out on all the talent and skills that disabled people have to offer.

And, ultimately, while disability inclusion in the workplace is vital for disabled people, the lessons it can teach around accessible and inclusive work benefit everyone. It’s time to mainstream disability inclusion and accessibility as the business opportunity that it is.

There are too many to list! We’ve got a long way to go, but alongside key barriers around physical and digital accessibility, and inflexible processes, practices and procedures, a real barrier is people’s assumptions around disability.

All too often, people have assumptions about what disabled people can do, what they can achieve and the lives that they can lead. Challenging those ingrained assumptions is vital to unlocking a world that gives disability inclusion the prominence it deserves.