Richmond AID Disability Employment Project
Website: http://www.richmondaid.org.uk/
The employment project at Richmond AID supports disabled people either seeking work or in employment in Richmond upon Thames.
What services do we provide? The current trend towards moving people from Incapacity Benefit on to Employment Support Allowance means that an increasing number of disabled people will now be looking for employment. The Employment Project provides advice and guidance, supporting local disabled people to gain, or retain employment.
Services we provide for individuals include:
- Help to access volunteering opportunities.
- Help to access in-work benefits advice.
- Cross-referrals without the Support Employment projects across the borough.
- Job search and CV report.
- Help to access legal resources and assistance.
- Monthly jobs bulletin.
- Access to database of disability-friendly employers in the borough.
For further information, contact Employment Officer Jamie Cutler,
Telephone: 020 8831 6072; e-mail: j.cutler@richmond.aid.org.uk
Research shows that approximately 2500 disabled people are unemployed in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Source: Census 2001).
Only half of disabled people of working age are in work compared with 80 per cent of non-disabled people (Source: Office of National Statistics Labour).
