Positivity and innovation – the wisdom from the Disability Smart Awards 2025

Val Proctor, Media Relations Officer at Business Disability Forum (BDF), reflects on the impact of the Disability Smart Awards 2025, sponsored by Freshfields, on 29 April. Hosts Diane Lightfoot, BDF’s CEO, and Simon Minty, BDF ambassador, disability trainer and TV personality, closed last week’s Disability Smart Awards 2025 on a high note by chatting about…

Disability Smart Awards 2025: Winners announced

Organisations and individuals who are working to remove barriers and make the world more inclusive for disabled people were celebrated at Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Awards 2025 in London last night (29 April), sponsored by Freshfields. Now in its 11th year, the Disability Smart Awards is an annual event open to organisations of any…

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Global Conference 2024 highlights: How inclusive is disability inclusion across the globe?

Lara Davis, our Director of Communications and Marketing, shares highlights from the ‘How inclusive is disability inclusion across the globe?’ session at our Global Conference on 21 November (sponsored by HSBC). Disability workforce and pay gap data reporting is a hot topic, but not just in the UK. It’s also a particular challenge for organisations…

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Global Conference 2024 highlights: Building confidence through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Business Disability Forum’s Rebecca Elliott shares highlights from the Disability Networks and Employee Resource Groups session at our recent global conference, ‘Disability inclusion in a changing world’ (sponsored by HSBC). Of all the amazing sessions in our Global Conference on 21 November, this year I think I was most excited for the “Building Confidence Through…

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Global Conference 2024 highlights: The European Accessibility Act (EEA): The knowns and the unknowns and what businesses need to do.

Matt Ewington, our Digital Marketing Manager, shares highlights from ‘The European Accessibility Act (EEA)’ panel at our Global Conference on 21 November (sponsored by HSBC). “The European Accessibility Act, coming into effect in June 2025, will set a benchmark for accessibility standards not only in the EU but globally. Businesses that want to sell their…

The Disability Smart Awards 2023 ceremony as seen by Becky, Disability Business Partner

Becky Elliott recently joined Business Disability Forum as a Disability Business Partner. Here’s her take on this year’s Disability Smart Awards ceremony, sponsored by Microlink and hosted by Freshfields. As the newest Disability Business Partner to join the BDF team, I felt incredibly fortunate to be sitting on the 22nd floor of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer…

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