Useful links
Featured links
Diversity Milkround is the graduate employment site aimed at breaking down barriers. Bringing you details of graduate vacancies with leading employers - all of whom are champions of diversity.
The Arberry Profile is co-written by students, for students and features editorial that addresses issues at the heart of disability and employment. Within the magazine, you will find excellent careers opportunities with blue chip companies, government organisations and the public sector, who all recognise the importance and value of recruiting from the full talent-pool of graduates.
The Arberry Profile is published twice a year in the autumn and spring and is free to all students and student organisations. Print and digital editions are available. To access a the digital version please visit our website and click on the cover image.
Disability organisations
- AbilityNet
A charity that provides advice about computer technology for disabled people. - Blind in Business
A small charity based in the City of London, helps young blind students to develop the confidence to think about further education and perhaps University to lead them to good careers. Their Training Service helps blind graduates towards good jobs through - British Computer Association of the Blind
A self-help group of visually impaired computer professionals and users, founded in 1969, concerned with the use of Information Technology by the blind in education. - British Deaf Association (BDA)
A charity focusing upon all aspects of hearing impairment. - Centre for Disability Studies (CDS)
CDS is an interdisciplinary centre for research and education in the field of disability studies at the University of Leeds (England). The Centre incorporates and develops the work of the former Disability Research Unit (DRU) and aims to promote internati - Disability North
Working throughout the North East of England offering free and confidential services to disabled people of any age including children and older people. - Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
Our job is to promote equality and human rights, and to create a fairer Britain. We do this by providing advice and guidance, working to implement an effective legislative framework and raising awareness of your rights. - Disabled Workers Co-operative
A registered charity that helps disabled people to help themselves. Aims to raise the independence of disabled people by enabling them to take an active role in the economy and achieve a greater sense of self-worth and also to raise awareness of the contr - Dyslexia Action
A national charity and the UK’s leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties. - Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST)
An organisation which works with users of assistive technology to maximise their independence. - Leonard Cheshire Foundation
A worldwide campaigning disability organisation. - Prospects
The National Autistic Society employment and training service for people with autism and Asperger syndrome who wish to work. - Queen Elizabeth Foundation for Disabled People
Encourages and enables adults with disabilities to increase independence and improve life skills. - RADAR
Information, advice and discussion on civil rights, employment, housing and benefits. - RNIB
A major resource for the visually impaired. - RNID
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People, the largest charity representing the 8.9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. - SCOPE
A nationwide organisation supporting people with cerebral palsy, including children. - SKILL
National Bureau for Students with Disabilities. A national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability.
- AbilityNet
Information Services
- Directgov
A guide to all public services for disabled people in one place including advice on looking for work, support while in work, work schemes and programmes and your employment rights. - Ableize UK Disability Directory
The UK and Ireland’s largest and most viewed resource of disability mobility and special needs. Find disabled products, services, sports and holidays also the largest collection of disabled clubs, groups and charities in the UK. - Disability Alliance
A valuable source of advice, information, publications, research and training. - Directenquiries
The Nationwide Access Register, is the premier source of access information about shops, businesses and the London Underground. There is detailed information for each location including everything from parking, entrances, lifts, toilets, counter heights, - Independent Living
Offers free information to people regarding independent living including a free jobsearch facility. - National Council for Work Experience (NCWE)
Promoting, supporting and developing quality work experience. - Techdis
Aims to improve provision for disabled staff and students in the further, higher and specialist education sectors through technology. - Yourable
Provides information on a wide range of disability & health issues focusing on independence.
- Directgov
Careers sites
- Hobsons
Hobsons is the only organisation that brings people together globally, regionally, and locally, uniting the education and corporate worlds, through every level of education. - Gradjobs
Publishers of Gradjobs magazine and hosts of the National Graduate Recruitment Exhibition where EmployAbility annually exhibit. - Graduate Prospects
The UK’s official graduate careers website with a proven pedigree and track record and history. - Target Jobs
Search 15,000 jobs from 1,000 employers - graduate-jobs.com
graduate-jobs.com is the only W3C ‘AA’ rated graduate job board in the UK. This means the site is completely compatible with screen readers and ensures usability for blind, partially sighted and disabled graduates.
- Hobsons
Publications & media
- Able Magazine
Able Magazine (formerly Disability View) is published bimonthly and “highlights and promotes lifestyle issues important to disabled people in the UK today”. - Disability Now magazine
DN online, the website for the UK’s biggest selling disability related newspaper. - Real World
Real World is a market leading graduate media company offering students access to live jobs, cross sector case studies, and advice on how to find the right graduate career through their Grad jobsite and through their free glossy magazine series.
- Able Magazine
Professional Associations
- ADP – The Association of Disabled Professionals
ADP provides employment advice, information and peer support to many disabled people. Members also give advice on their particular employment or experience. Our other main area of activity is Parliamentary, where we work to ensure that legislation affecti
- ADP – The Association of Disabled Professionals



























