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Web links
Our links are organised into the following categories. Use the links below to move to an appropriate category
Links
Advocacy
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) www.acas.org.uk
- Citizen Advocacy Information and Training www.advocacyresource.net
- Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (SIAA) www.siaa.org.uk
Commissions
- Disability Rights Commission www.drc-gb.org
- Equal Opportunities Commission www.eoc.org.uk
- Commission for Racial Equality www.cre.gov.uk
- Commission for Equality and Human Rights www.cehr.org.uk
Disabled Entrepreneurs
- Greater London Initiative for Disabled Entrepreneurs www.glideonline.org
Education
- Lead Scotland www.lead.org.uk
- Skill www.skill.org.uk
- Springboard www.springboard.hobsons.co.uk
Government Departments
- Department for Work and Pensions www.dwp.gov.uk
- Department of Health www.doh.gov.uk
- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) www.dvla.gov.uk
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Infoline www.hse.gov.uk
- Jobcentre Plus www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
- Valuing People www.valuingpeople.gov.uk
International Links
- Australian human rights and equal opportunities commission www.humanrights.gov.au/ disability_rights
- Cornell University www.cornell.edu
- Employment and Social Affairs Disability Issues europa.eu.int/comm/ employment_social/ disability/index_en.html
- European Disability Forum www.edf-feph.org/en/ welcome.htm
- European Platform for Rehabilitation www.epr.be
- Gladnet www.gladnet.org
- International Labour Organisation www.ilo.org
Organisations
- Action for Blind People www.afbp.org
- Adult Dyslexia Organisation www.futurenet.co.uk/ charity/ado/index.html
- Adult Dyslexia and Skills Development Centre www.adultdyslexiacentre.co.uk
- Alzheimer's Society www.alzheimers.org.uk
- Arthritis Care www.arthritiscare.org.uk
- Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (ASBAH) www.asbah.org
- BackCare (The Charity for Healthier Backs) www.backcare.org.uk
- Blind in Business Association www.blindinbusiness.org.uk
- British Computer Association of the Blind (BCAB) www.bcab.org.uk
- British Deaf Association www.signcommunity.org.uk
- British Dyslexia Association (BDA) www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk
- British Heart Foundation www.bhf.org.uk
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities www.bild.org.uk
- British Polio Fellowship (BPF) www.britishpolio.org.uk
- British Stammering Association www.stammering.org
- Cancer BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients) www.cancerbacup.org.uk
- Changing Faces www.changingfaces.org.uk
- Council for Advancement of Communication with Deaf People www.cacdp.org.uk
- Cystic Fibrosis Trust www.cftrust.org.uk
- Diabetes UK www.diabetes.org.uk
- Disabled Drivers' Association www.dda.org.uk
- Down's Syndrome Association (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) www.downs-syndrome.org.uk
- The Dyslexia Institute www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk
- EmployAbility www.employ-ability.org.uk
- Dyspraxia Foundation www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk
- Epilepsy Action www.epilepsy.org.uk
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
- Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS www.businessfightsaids.org
- Haemophilia Society www.haemophilia.org.uk
- Headway the brain injury association www.headway.org.uk
- Huntington's Disease Association (HDA)(Formerly Huntington's Chorea) www.hda.org.uk
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation www.jrf.org.uk
- Leukaemia Care Society www.leukaemiacare.org.uk
- Limbless Association www.limbless-association.org
- Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance (LMCA) www.lmca.org.uk
- Manic Depression Fellowship (MDF) – The Bipolar Organisation www.mdf.org.uk
- Mencap www.mencap.org.uk
- MIND (The National Association for Mental Health) www.mind.org.uk
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of GB & N. Ireland www.mssociety.org.uk
- Muscular Dystrophy Group www.muscular-dystrophy.org
- National AIDS Trust www.nat.org.uk
- National Autistic Society www.nas.org.uk
- National Society for Epilepsy www.epilepsynse.org.uk
- Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) www.parkinsons.org.uk
- Positive Futures www.positive-futures.org
- RADAR www.radar.org.uk
- Rethink Severe Mental Illness www.rethink.org
- Ricability www.ricability.org.uk
- Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) www.rnib.org.uk
- Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) www.rnid.org.uk
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists www.rcslt.org
- Sane www.sane.org.uk
- SCOPE www.scope.org.uk
- Sense (UK Deafblind Charity) www.sense.org.uk
- Spinal Injuries Association www.spinal.co.uk
- The Stroke Association www.stroke.org.uk
- Terrence Higgins Trust www.tht.org.uk
Technology, Access, Ergonomics and Occupational Health
- AbilityNet www.abilitynet.org.uk
- Centre for Accessible Environments www.cae.org.uk
- Chief Medical Officer Wales www.cmo.wales.gov.uk
- English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk
- Ergonomics Society www.ergonomics.org.uk
- Scotland's Health at Work www.shaw.uk.com
- Saville and Holdsworth www.shlgroup.com
- Society of Occupational Medicine www.som.org.uk