Useful links
If you are interested in improving services and making them more accessible for disabled people and carers, you might find the following links helpful.
ADAPT
ADAPT operates throughout the UK and its goal is to improve access by advising and assisting arts and heritage venues to create effective access for everyone. It does this through grant aid, awards for excellence, awareness training and a consultancy service.
|www.adapttrust.co.uk|
Phone: 0141 556 2233
Fax: 0141 556 7799
Capability Scotland
Scotland's largest disability organisation, providing a broad range of services to adults and children with disabilities.
|www.capability-scotland.org.uk/|
Phone 0131 313 5510
Fax 0131 346 1681
Textphone 0131 346 2529
Disability Rights Commission
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body, established by Act of Parliament to eliminate discrimination against disabled people and promote equality of opportunity.
As well as lots of useful pages about legislation and discrimination, it also has a comprehensive links page.
|www.drc-gb.org |
Phone 08457 622 633
Textphone 08457 622 644
ENABLE
This is the largest membership organisation in Scotland for people with learning disabilities and family carers.
|www.enable.org.uk |
Phone 0141 226 4541
Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS)
A world-wide association of organisations, accessible web designers and developers, promoting and protecting accessible design standards.
|www.gawds.org|
Phone: 0141 334 1650
Inclusion Scotland
Inclusion Scotland (IS) is a new innovative consortium of disability-led organisations and individual disabled people. They aim to reverse social exclusion experienced by disabled people, through civil dialogue, partnerships, capacity building, education, persuasion, training and advocacy.
|www.inclusionscotland.org |
Phone: 0141 887 7058
Lead Scotland
is a voluntary organisation linking education and disability(Lead), set up to widen access to learning for all disabled adults, and carers in many areas of Scotland.
|www.lead.org.uk |
Phone: 0131 317 3439
Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS)
MACS is the statutory advisor to the Scottish Executive on disability issues in relation to transport. Visit the site to find out more about MACS work or to contribute to their discussion forum.
|www.macs-mobility.org|
Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)
RNID is the largest charity representing the nine million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. As well as useful services and information, their website also contains links to lots of other related sites.
|www.rnid.org.uk |
Phone 0141 564 1600 (Scotland)
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
provide information on how to make information accessible for visually impaired people.
|www.rnib.org.uk |
Phone 0131 311 8500
Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability
SCLD is an organisation set up to help people make changes set out in 'The same as you?'
Their website is for people with learning disabilities, family, carers and anyone interested in finding out more about 'The Same as You?' and making things better for people with learning disabilities.
|www.scld.org.uk|
Phone 0141 418 5420
Scottish Association for Mental Health
The Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) is the leading mental health charity in Scotland. SAMH offers direct services to people with mental health problems, campaigns on policy issues and provides a Scotland-wide information service.
|www.samh.org.uk |
Phone 0141 568 700
UPDATE
is Scotland's national disability information service. They provide a range of practical services including a national register of information formats and suppliers.
|www.update.org.uk|
Phone 0131 558 5200
Scottish Business in the Community(SBC)
SBC makes key connections between the private, public and not-for-profits sectors, to channel business resources into communities.
|www.sbcscot.com|
Phone 0131 442 2020
Skill and Skill Scotland: National bureau for students with disabilities
Skill is a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
|www.skill.org.uk| |www.skill.org.uk/scotland/index.asp|
Phone: 0131 4752348