Association of Disabled Professionals - ADP

BCM-ADP
London
WC1N 3XX

Tel: 01204 431 638
Fax: 01204 431 638
Web: www.adp.org.uk
Best time to telephone: (answerphone at all times)

The Association was founded in 1971. Some progress was being made to facilitate disabled people gaining skilled, semi-skilled, and clerical work; but very little in relation to the professions. ADP's membership proves that disabled people can and do succeed in almost every profession. Today members include disabled people who are working or who have worked as professionals or at managerial level in medicine, the law, health and social services, the church, politics, commerce, education, sciences and the arts. The aims of ADP include the following:

• To improve the education, rehabilitation, training and employment opportunities available to disabled people.
• To encourage disabled people to develop their physical and mental capacities fully, to find and retain employment commensurate with their abilities and qualifications, and to participate fully in the everyday life of society.
• To improve public knowledge and acceptance of the capabilities, needs and problems of disabled people, particularly in relation to education and employment.

Activities include: provision of advice, information and peer support to very many disabled people, and to their advisors and friends; to try to ensure that legislation and the like which will directly affect the lives of disabled people takes their needs and legitimate aspirations into account. The Association produces the ADP Quarterly - a journal for members and supports research into the employment of disabled people.

The ADP also operates The Disabled Entrepreneurs Network for Disabled people who are self employed, or who wish to set up in business.