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Partnership Benefits

Join us and learn from organisations who are at different stages of their disability-smart journey as well as accessing a wide range of advice and support.

Business Disability Forum Partner Benefits

Becoming a Partner of Business Disability Forum highlights your commitment to becoming a disability-smart business and to leading and driving best practice in this space. Our partnership includes many of the UK’s largest businesses and global brands as well as public sector employers and SMEs.

As a Partner, you will become part of the UK’s and world’s foremost thought leadership group on disability as it affects business. Our Partner group provides opportunities to come together to discuss and shape know-how that pushes the private and public sectors to address disability as a business priority. 

Our Partners have contributed to the creation of cutting-edge enabling products and initiatives such as the Global Taskforce, Technology Taskforce, Accessibility Maturity Model and the Accessible Technology Charter.

As well as all the benefits listed on the Membership Benefits page, there are additional benefits for Partners.

View Business Disability Forum’s brochure (PDF Document)

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Download Business-Disability-Forum’s-brochure (Word Document)

Business Disability Forum Partners can access more services and information:

  • An assigned expert Senior Business Partner who will work with you and your organisation day in, day out to address your needs, and facilitate access to other experts and our network of disabled Associates. Your Senior Business Partner will help you make full use of your Business Disability Forum Partnership and help plan, support and/or implement your disability strategy.
  • CEO membership of our President Group, led by Sir Ian Cheshire, chairman of Barclays UK.
  • Five days’ consultancy support per year.
  • Unlimited access to the Knowledge Hub offering resources that include information sheets, toolkits and case studies to support you to deliver disability smart business.
  • Technology Taskforce membership.
  • Global Taskforce membership.
  • Customer Taskforce membership.
  • Employment Taskforce membership.
  • Leader to Leader dinners to support your senior champions.
  • Access to six-monthly network breakfasts (currently online) for your disability leads to discuss the hot topics of the day and share issues, best practice and challenges.
  • A free Partner Pass to all our other events, with the exception of our annual London-based Conference.
  • External logo linking from our Partner listing page.

Working with us as a Partner also positions your company as a thought leader and demonstrates your commitment in driving disability inclusion in your business.  

How to become a Business Disability Forum Partner

Please download our Partner list December 2021 (Word document)

To find out more about how we can help regarding partnership, please contact our Head of Disability Partnerships, Adrian Ward via email or call +44-(0)78-6689-0936.  

Membership benefits and access to services

Our Member group provides opportunities to come together to discuss and shape know-how that pushes the private and public sectors to address disability as a business priority.  You can find out more about the Business Disability Forum Member benefits.

Testimonials

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Our membership with Business Disability Forum is useful in lots of ways. They have supported us to complete our Disability Standard assessment, kept us informed and ambitious on disability inclusion, and they have really helpful advice service, toolkits and best practice.

Emma Lawrence, Senior Equality and Diversity Policy Officer, Nursing and Midwifery Council

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At Unilever our vision is to build a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone, including people with disabilities, are free to bring their full and authentic selves to work. With 30 years of expertise, Business Disability Forum is the perfect partner to help us in building our physical and systems accessibility and we have worked together to develop a global disability inclusion programme that aims to engage and equip colleagues working across 190 countries. Through this partnership, we are reinforcing our commitment to be the #1 employer of choice for persons with disabilities by 2025

Aline Santos Farhat, Global Executive Vice President Marketing & Chief D&I Officer, Unilever

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Inclusion is very important to us at Lloyds Banking Group, as we believe everyone should have the opportunity to reach their full potential within an environment where they feel included, valued and empowered to be their best. Research has shown the most inclusive organisations are able to better understand the needs of the customers and communities they serve. Disability inclusion and creating an accessible environment for our colleagues and customers with disabilities is key to this. We are very proud to be a Partner of the Business Disability Forum. Having access to their wealth of knowledge, and support as well as a chance to learn from, and share best practice with like-minded organisations enables us to continue to improve the experience for our colleagues and customers with disabilities. In addition, their disability standard allows us to visibly demonstrate our commitment to disability inclusion, supporting us to attract a more diverse range of talent

David Oldfield, Group Director, Commercial Banking, Lloyds Banking Group

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