advocacy
AFK’s Travel Training Toolkit is here!
AFK has produced a unique Travel Training Toolkit, supporting young people with additional needs to develop their confidence and skills to travel as independently on the Transport For London network and walking routes.
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AFK and National Careers Week 2023
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?
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Dr Pops – ‘My wheelchair journey around London’
AFK Ambassador and #RollModel Dr Hannah Barham-Brown on navigating her way around London in a wheelchair.
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AFK’s Top 3 Reasonable Adjustments for the Workplace
AFK’s Top 3 Reasonable Adjustments for the Workplace, small changes that make the environment and work processes more accessible to all.
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Mik Scarlet on the Social Model of Disability
Disability advocate Mik Scarlet discusses the importance of the Social Model of Disability (first published in Unite Magazine in March 2018).
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International Women’s Day 2021
Celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th with my AFK
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AFK and The Openwork Foundation
Celebrating our achievements during our latest partnership with The Openwork Foundation from 2017-2020.
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Disabled People or People With Disabilities?
A guest blog from Esi Hardy of Celebrating Disability, shared with permission from her series Disability Inclusion Bites.
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my AFK welcomes the House of Commons Education Committee’s new SEND report, released today.
Today, The Education Committee published its First Report of Session 2019-20, on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND report)
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my AFK ambassador listed ‘100 most influential disabled people’ for a second year.
my AFK ambassador, Dr Pops has been nominated in the Shaw Trust ‘Power 100’ for the second year in a row.
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