Employment Success Stories

It’s Learning Disability Week and we wanted to use this week as an opportunity to share our new 3-year strategy, along with inspiring stories from the young people we support, and fantastic fundraising achievements from our community.

This Learning Disability Week, we’re celebrating how different groups are working together to make business easier for disabled and neurodiverse young people.

Advance’s support provides essential resources and enriching experiences, empowering children and young people with disabilities and autism.

Advance’s support provides essential resources and enriching experiences, empowering children and young people with disabilities and autism.

Berkeley’s support provides essential resources and enriching experiences, like site visits during National Careers Week, empowering children and young people with disabilities and autism.

AFK partners with a great platform for accessing resources and those that are confident working independently on their self-employment journey.

At AFK we continuously support young people with autism or disabilities to secure paid employment that matches their career aspirations, but what about those young people still in education and not quite sure what they want to do when they leave or what career options are available to them?

The AFK Aspire to Work programme is partnering with schools and employers to create experiences and improve aspirations to enter work for young people with disabilities.

To celebrate Learning Disability Week, we’re at I AM Festival – a yearly celebration empowering D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent young people to explore their creativity.

‘Our View’ is a collection of short films made by young people with special educational needs and disabilities on their experiences, challenges and successes in preparing for and gaining employment.