Promotes supported employment opportunities for disabled people, publishes a monthly bulletin, lobbies government and provides an information network service.

Association of Disabled Professionals
BCM ADP, London WC1N 3XX
Tel: 01924 283253
Fax: 01924 283252
E-mail: assdisprof@aol.com
Web address: www.adp.org.uk

Offers advice to disabled people wishing to enter any of the professions or executive and managerial employment and supports professionals who become disabled. Acts as a pressure group to improve facilities in training, education and employment for people with disabilities.

British Printing Society
BM Box ISPA, London WC1N 3XX
Tel: 01252-326771Helpline

Unites printers and encourages printing as a hobby, offers one-to-one assistance to people with learning difficulties and publishes a monthly magazine. Maintains, in friendly association, a network of members to improve printing craftsmanship and helps any disabled printer, commercial or therapeutic.

Cottage and Rural Enterprises (CARE)
9 Weir Road, Kibworth, Leicester LE8 0LQ
Tel: 0116 279 3225
Fax: 0116 279 6384
E-mail: carecentral@freeuk.com
Web address: www.care-ltd.co.uk

Provides residential and workshop facilities for people who have a learning disability. Residents live in a range of homes, working in pottery, horticulture, woodwork and craft workshops. Communities have been created in Devon, Shropshire, Kent, Wiltshire, West Sussex, Lancashire, Leicestershire and Northumberland.

Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
1 Bank Buildings, Princes Street, London EC2R 8EV
Tel: 020 7726 3961/minicome
Fax: 020 7726 4963
E-mail: edwa036@imb.net
Web address: www.opportunities.org.uk

Provides a free service, through a national network of 18 regional centres, offering advice on training, job search, CVs, application forms and interviews. Works directly with people with a wide range of disabilities to help find employment.

National League of the Blind and Disabled
2 Tenterden Road, London N17 8BE
Tel: 020 8808 6030 (+minion)
Fax: 020 8885 3235 Has 50 branches promoting the education, training, employment and general welfare of blind and disabled people.

Papworth Trust
Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB3 8RG
Tel: 01480 830341
Fax: 01480 830781
Web address: www.papworth.org.uk

Provides rehabilitation, employment and training, accommodation and care for people with physical and learning disabilities. Provides employment through supported placement schemes and occupational work centres. As a registered housing association, it provides nearly 400 properties for disabled or elderly people and has three residential care homes for severely disabled people.

Rehab UK
Windermere House, Kendal Avenue, London W3 0XA
Tel: 020 8896 2333
Fax: 020 8896 2444
E-mail: info@rehabuk.org
Web address: www.rehabuk.org

Provides training, development, job creation and retention for those experiencing social and economic exclusion. Runs brain injury vocational centres and training programmes for those with mental health problems.

Sheltered Housing and Workshops Project (SHAW)
Kielder Avenue
Beacon Lane, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 8JT
Tel: 01670 733966
Fax: 01670 590115
E-mail: pbe@shaw-project.freeserve.co.uk

Provides support to those over the statutory school leaving age who have a personal handicap or disability (mental or physical) who need housing, accommodation or employment. Operates sheltered housing and a retail garden centre, providing supervised training workshops in which people can be taught and trained in various crafts, skills and techniques.

The Treloar Trust
Upper Froyle, Alton, Hampshire GU34 4JX
Tel: 01420 526406
Fax: 01420 23957
E-mail: sweetingj@treloar.org.uk
Web address: www.treloar.org.uk

Provides primary and secondary education to severely physically disabled young people between 8 and16 and further education to those over 16. It has some 300 students, from all over the country, following the national curriculum to 16 and encourages hobbies and sports during leisure time. It also provides driving lesions, housekeeping experience, riding, sailing and overseas visits. The Treloar Trust team take part in the Stoke Mandeville Junior Games.