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Patchwork Hub is an award-winning employment platform and jobs board, connecting disabled people, neurodivergent people and carers to inclusive job opportunities.
Alongside our jobs board, we also support employers across their whole disability inclusion journey, from attraction and recruitment to retention of talent. We provide a range of training, consultancy and support packages to drive forward change within organisations.
Our community is at the heart of our work and every day we are blown away by the sheer weight of talent across the disabled community. Over the last few years, we’ve posted thousands of job opportunities, skilled up and supported hundreds of employees across organisations and placed multiple candidates into jobs that work for them.
Beyond our core work, we’re always looking to educate people on the importance of disability inclusion and to lift up disabled voices and initiatives. This may be through our impact partnerships with some incredible disabled-led organisations, or our spotlights and articles profiling some amazing disability changemakers.
Patchwork Hub is a small but dedicated social enterprise, with a clear social mission at our heart: creating an inclusive future of work and closing the disability employment gap. Our disabled-led organisation will continue to work every day to break down barriers for disabled people in work and drive the change that we all want to see in the world.
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.
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