Enhance The UK is a disability led registered charity that offers disability, sensory and neurodiversity awareness training that is modern, progressive and provocative. The style of training is informal, yet informative.
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“James and Jennie are very inspiring and articulate people, and ran the session at the right pace, communicating issues to us in a way that helped us to understand them rather than being confrontational. I’ll be a lot more confident in assisting a disabled person in future, which for me made the workshop really worthwhile.”
Julie Littlefield, Policy and Campaigns Team at WaterAid
In-house training courses
The courses are relevant for individuals/teams that work with disabled people or have direct contact with the general public. This may be through marketing/fundraising events, management, customer services and human resources or as other public services. Courses
News
Cast Offs features a cast of six people with disabilities fending for themselves on a desert island
Kiruna Stamell who has dwarfism is one of our trustees and Peter Mitchell is a strong supporter of Enhance The UK. You may have seen them recently on the much-hyped Channel 4 drama series Cast Offs that ran late last year. Read more
Woah! What’s that big thing coming towards me? Oh, it’s that Big Fate Train we sometimes have to face that can knock us right off the track we were seemingly happy on, setting us rather haphazardly on to another bumpier track, needing a lot of work on it to make the ride a bit smoother. I found myself facing this train when I was 18 years old.
I agreed to sign for Leeds United when I was 15 years old. I studied for my GCSE's at home and then moved over to Leeds in the summer of 2000. I was into my third season when I was in a car crash in the summer of 2002. I have been in been in a wheelchair ever since.
I was in hospital for three months and started playing basketball the following year. I now play for the Knights and have played for Ireland in 2 European Championship Finals. At the start of 2009, my basketball club received an e-mail stating Channel Four were looking for a wheelchair user to star in a new groundbreaking show named Cast Off's. I thought 'well I have nothing to lose' so got in touch with them - two auditions later I was offered the part! We filmed for 7 weeks and I loved every second of it; I have since landed a role on "Doctors" and started filming early January. I am currently trying out for the GB men's basketball team. Enough time will have passed since I played for Ireland, so I could be eligible to play for GB in the Paralympics in 2012. That's my life up until now but there will be more to come... believe me!
