Our Story
TWIP launched in January 2021, founded by and serving disabled people. We bring our combined experience in social enterprise, people management & training, community development, employment law, and business management, which combines with our personal experiences of disability, including visual impairment, mobility impairment, OCD, chronic illness, autism, & ADHD, to drive us to build the best in-work support for disabled academics, entrepreneurs, and professionals.
We get it.
We have been through wrangling with employers for reasonable adjustments, unreasonably denied. We have battled the DWP administration processes for Access to Work. We have felt the crushing weight of being left responsible for driving all the changes needed for our workplaces to be accessible to ourselves and others.
We’ve been there, and we formed TWIP to help make sure others going through similar experiences don’t have to face it all alone.
Our Values
We are Open
We work with integrity and have open conversations to ensure people’s needs are being met and support is appropriate. We are nice and friendly people.
We are HONEST
We do what we say and say when we can’t do something. We maintain professionalism, confidentiality and independence always.
We are INCLUSIVE
At TWIP, Equality and Diversity isn’t a thing, it is the thing. Everything in our organisation must be best practice for E&D. For us, diversity is about taking account of the differences between people and groups of people and placing a positive value on those differences.
We are COLLABORATIVE
We work with and for people, putting clients at the center of what we do. This means our practice is research led, increasing awareness of disability at every step, communicating and reviewing individual goals and outcomes to maximise the output of service delivery.
We work based on the SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY
People are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or condition. Barriers can include people’s attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can’t do certain things. The social model helps us recognise barriers that make life harder for disabled people.
“it is society which disables physically impaired people. Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society.”
Our Team
Meet the people who make TWIP.
Contact Us
If you’re interested or would like more information then get in-touch with us at:
info@TheWorkInclusionProject.co.uk