This week has been one of heavy preparation for I Can Make It. Preparing ourselves for meetings whether with our champions, possible new partners or a combination of the two.
We’ve also developed our contacts with Leeds City Council and Knowsley Borough Council as well as establishing contact with Wakefield Council and Leicester City Council.
For instance, those of us based in London held a planning meeting for an I Can Make It event to be held at our offices on Monday 27th March 2017, exactly two months from now. It’s provisionally entitled ‘I Can Make It Exchange’, as we’re hoping for a great exchange of solutions to creating new jobs involving our champions and partners, all of whom will be invited to attend. Invitations will be sent out in due course, so watch this space!
And we haven’t been the only ones planning. Our champions in the Manchester Section held their section meeting on Saturday. The team will be presenting at an event organised by the Social Action Network in Stockport in March. In addition one of our Manchester champions, Kathryn Woodhead, has created an excellent flyer detailing what we’re doing when it comes to procurement. This flyer will shortly be live in ICMI’s Procurement pages.
For those of you in Oxford, our new champion for Liverpool, Hannah Ross, will be part of a panel next Friday for the 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize-Giving Ceremony. This is a competition for students at the University of Oxford and appropriately enough this year’s question is: “How should the law protect the right of persons with disabilities to just and favourable conditions of work, on an equal basis with others, including equal remuneration for work of equal value?”
We wish the best of luck to all those who’ve entered and hope that the panel discussion is a fruitful one.
We’re continually impressed by the work of our champions, however we’d like more of you to join them! So if you are 18-29, have a disability or health condition and live in Norfolk, Liverpool, Bristol or any of our other target areas and want to help to improve the career prospects of yourself and other young disabled people, then please get in touch with us on 0207 250 8193 or via leo.capella@disabilityrightsuk.org