Projects

Sustainable User Involvement Project
This Department of Health funded project has now come to an end. However, the database of user-led groups is now being managed by the Membership & Services Project which is Big Lottery funded. If you would like to discuss this database and be added to it or be put in touch with groups run and controlled by disabled people who have agreed to undertake consultation work please contact Margaret Bordogna-Crane who will be happy to assist you. Please be aware that the groups enrolled on this project will be charging a fee for their time and valuable knowledge.

Membership & Services Project
This three year Big Lottery Funded Project is aimed at providing support to our Member Groups and ensuring that the services that UKDPC provide are tailored to the needs of our membership. This project will develop a closer working relationship with our Member Groups providing assistance in areas defined by consultation and needs analysis. The aim of this project is to generate a more secure and sustainable future for our members by sharing good practice between and across our group, if necessary bringing in experts from within or outside our organisation to advise in areas such as trustee and governance, funding advice, disability equality and group management of membership services.

In this project UKDPC plans to maximise the potential of our member groups by encouraging Social Enterprise projects as a source of income generation building. This will be undertaken by encouraging our groups to identify skills and services they have which could be developed into an income generating Social Enterprise.

Margaret Bordogna-Crane is managing this project and the Membership & Services Administration Assistant is Martin Sims.

British Council of Disabled People - Transcription Services - Get Your Message Across
There are over 10 million disabled people with spending power in the United Kingdom who are your potential customers. Can they access your goods and services?

The Disability Discrimination Act requires your business or service to make ''reasonable adjustments''. To improve your customer care for disabled people, The United Kingdom''s Disabled People''s Council can help. We have a Transcriptions Service available which offers training, consultancy and services to goods and service providers.

The United Kingdom''s Disabled People''s Council can help you. We have 25 years experience of producing Accessible Information for our members and other organisations.

Our Transcription Service is able to produce your information in accessible formats. We can produce Braille, Audio tape and Audio CD, Large Print documents, Easy Word & Picture documents, Video Tape with British Sign Language and subtitles. We also have the skills to produce electronic information in several formats which are suitable for Text to Speech users.

If you would like to speak about your organisation''s requirements, please contact John Ross, Transcriptions Administrator here at UKDPC.

Disability Research Unit (DRU)
The UKDPC Disability Research Unit is located in the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) in the Department of Sociology and Social Science at the University of Leeds. Starting life as the Disability Research Unit (DRU) the CDS was formally established in 1992 following UKDPC''s groundbreaking research on discrimination, which was also conducted at Leeds.