Useful Links
The links on this page relate to what we understand to be the leading sources of information and guidance in relation to people with accessibility disabilities.
Equality Act
Government guidance for public sector
- Public Sector Equality Duty: guidance for public authorities
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: The Public Sector Equality Duty
- Technical guidance on the Public Sector Equality Duty: England
- Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman report: Equal access: Getting it right for people with disabilities
Royal Institute of British Architects Access Checklists
- 32 Access Checklists:
- Pedestrian routes in the external environment
- Street furniture
- Approach to building
- Car Parking
- Setting down points
- External Ramps
- External Steps
- Handrails
- Entrances
- Doors – external and internal
- Doors – access control systems
- Doors – opening and closing systems
- Entrance foyers
- Reception desks and service counters
- Seating
- Horizontal circulation
- Surfaces
- Internal ramps, steps and stairs
- Passenger lifts
- Platform lifts
- Sanitary facilities
- Hotel rooms
- Faith rooms
- Wayfinding, information and signs
- Communication systems and acoustics
- Switches and controls
- Lighting
- Neurodiversity
- Building management
- Information
- Website
- Communication services
Federation of Small Businesses guidance
- Do you know your Equality Act responsibilities?
- What is a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act?
- Small business employment of disabled people
- Employing disabled workers and people with health conditions
Disability Organisations
- Disability Rights UK
- Business Disability Forum
- Royal National Institute of Blind people (RNIB)
- Scope
- Leonard Cheshire
- Transport for All
Disability funding organisations
- Charity Excellence Framework
- AI Grant Bid Writing For Charities
- Disability Grants
- WheelPower, British Wheelchair Sport
Potential sources of funding to be investigated
General disability support
Wheelchair sports support
- Asda Foundation
- Barchester Charitable Foundation
- The CLA Charitable Trust
- Cooperative Local Community Fund
- Garfield Weston Foundation
- Hedley Foundation
- Invictus Active
- Lloyds Bank Foundation
- Morrison’s Foundation
- Motability Foundation
- People’s Postcode Trust
- The Percy Bilton Charitable Group
- Persimmon Homes
- The Screwfix Foundation
- The Skinner’s Company Lady Neville Charity
- Tesco Community Grants
- The Thompson Family Charitable Trust
- Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
- The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust
- Yapp Charitable Trust
- Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation
- Wolfson Foundation
- Get Kids Going
- Whizz-Kidz
- Caudwell Children
- Variety Club
- Make Way Foundation
- Family Fund
- Ready Charity
- Children Today
- Aspire
- Tishie Young Foundation
- True Colours Trust
- Cerebra
- Cash for Kids
- Dickie Bird Foundation
- Steve Morgan Foundation
- Muscular Dystrophy UK
- Elifar Foundation
- Children’s Hope Foundation
- Boparan Charitable Trust
- Regain