Tag: Business Disability Forum (BDF)

Business Disability Forum’s (BDF) Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026, which opened for nominations on 3 December, mark a new chapter in recognising the importance of disability inclusion and the businesses and organisations driving positive change.  This year’s awards have been renamed to focus specifically on impact, reflecting the difference that inclusive business practice can make for disabled employees and consumers.  Diane Lightfoot, CEO of BDF, said:  “The awards are all about individuals and organisations making a real and lasting impact on the lives of disabled people by removing barriers to…

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Two London models are helping to improve the way that disability is portrayed in the media by posing for a new collection of images created by Business Disability Forum (BDF) and launched in July. The images are part of a wider campaign, launched in 2024, to challenge perceptions of disability, after research commissioned by BDF found that only 23 per cent of people with a disability surveyed agreed that images of disabled people used in content they had seen, watched or read reflected their own experience of disability.  Amelia Parillon…

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