Disability employment support organisations
Disability Employment Adviser
Disability Employment Advisers, based at the local Jobcentre, can arrange for an assessment of your individual needs.
They can offer advice and support, training, fares to work and access to equipment through the Access to Work Scheme.
Status Employment
Status Employment offers a unique service through supported employment which helps people with disabilities find and hold down paid jobs.
Action for Blind People
Run by the London Employment Development Centre, Action for Blind People offers training and support to visually impaired people, no matter where they are on the road to employment.
This includes trying out various pieces of specialist equipment such as computers with speech software.
Croydon Mencap
Mencap services include residential, education and employment services, leisure opportunities and individual support and advice for people with a learning disability, their families and carers.
Mind in Croydon
Provides a wide range of services to people with mental health problems and their relatives and carers. These include advice and information, counselling, welfare benefits, advocacy, day care, work opportunities and a furniture project. They maintain the online guide to mental health services in Croydon. They have also produced highly regarded training materials including videos, DVDs and training packs.
Shaw Trust
Shaw Trust is a national charity that provides training and work opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market due to disability, ill health or other social circumstances. They are the largest UK provider of employment services for disabled people.
Working Links
Working Links was established in 2000 to deliver the Government's Employment Zones in some of Britain's most disadvantaged communities. They are now firmly established as one of the most successful organisations at helping people get back to work, long-term.
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Status Employment
- Telephone
- 020 8655 3344
- Fax
- 020 8656 6600
- info@statusemployment.org.uk
- Address
- 6 Westway Gardens
Shirley
Croydon CR0 8RA - Website
- www.statusemployment.org.uk
- Contact name
- Shaw Trust Enquiries
- Telephone
- 01225 716300
- Minicom
- 08457 697288
- Address
- Fox Talbot House
Greenways Business Park
Bellinger Close
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 1BN - Website
- www.shaw-trust.org.uk
- Contact name
- Working Links
- Telephone
- 0800 917 9262
- information@workinglinks.co.uk
- Address
- Working Links
Garden House
57-59 Long Acre
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 9JL - Website
- www.workinglinks.co.uk
- Contact name
- Mind in Croydon
- Telephone
- 020 8668 2210
- Fax
- 020 8763 2084
- admin@mindincroydon.org.uk
- Address
- 26 Pampisford Road
Purley
Surrey
CR8 2NE - Website
- www.mindincroydon.org.uk
- Contact name
- Croydon Mencap
- Telephone
- 020 8662 9201
- Fax
- 020 8662 9202
- croydonmencap@btconnect.com
- Address
- Croydon Mencap Ltd
60-61 Leslie Park Road
Croydon CR0 6TP - Website
- www.croydon.cswebsites.org
- Contact name
- Disability Employment Adviser
- Telephone
- 020 8700 8369
- Website
- www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/HelpForDis
abledPeople/AccesstoWork
- Contact name
- Action for Blind People
- Telephone
- Freephone 0800 915 4666
- Fax
- 020 7635 4900
- info@actionforblindpeople.org.uk
- Address
- 14-16 Verney Road
London
SE16 3DZ - Website
- www.afbp.org
Downloads
An Easy Guide to Accessible Transport in Croydon
(1675K)
- The Croydon Mobility Forum has helped produce 'An Easy Guide to Accessible Transport in Croydon' through their involvement in the Partnership Group for Adults with Physical and Sensory Disabilities. This 'living' document can be viewed and printed using the link provided, this version is in PDF (portable document format) and there is another in Word. Hard copies are in libraries, One-Stop receptions and can be requested by calling 020 8726 6500.
