Irene Wright - Chair of Birmingham Access Committee
Irene Wright is chair of Birmingham's Access Committee. She has received an MBE for services to disabled people. "The only way we're going to make changes now is via communication and letting people...
Tim Phillips - Assistant Team Manager
Tim Phillips is an assistant team manager at the local adult services team. His team helps people to remain independent in their own homes. His greatest personal achievements were to have almost made the...
Elaine Watson - Training Coordinator
Elaine Watson is the training co-ordinator business support officer for Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. She organises and delivers training to local businesses about employing disabled people. She...
John Shakespeare - Employment Advisor
John Shakespeare is an employment advisor for BIT Pathways, a mental health charity in Birmingham. His first career was as a butcher, starting when he was thirteen, delivering orders. But by the time he...
John Boular - Information Officer
John Boular is the information officer at Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. He has a disability of the spine, so it was a big blow when he lost his job in the electro-plating business. He went to...
Ian Snowdon - Audio Archivist
Ian Snowden is an audio archivist with the BBC Northern Ireland. He has a hereditary condition which made him lose his sight at an early age, he says "It definitely made me more independent because you...
Mark Justin-Ford - Receptionist & IHG Apprentice
Mark Justin-Ford is a Receptionist and Trainee Manager for Intercontinental Hotel Group. He originally wanted to work in the media, so he funded a voluntary post at the BBC by working as a waiter. But...
James Malarkey - Rope Access Trainee
James Malarkey is a Rope Access Trainee at Plas y Brenin Mountain Centre. His family all have office jobs, but that wouldn't suit him - "I'm the black sheep of the family, totally." He's quite comfortable...
Glen Sparkes - Racehorse Riding Instructor
Glen Sparkes is a Riding Instructor at the British Racing School. He succeeded in getting his jockey's licence, and rode a winner at Lingfield Park on his birthday, but a spine injury brought his career...
Peter Brightman - Syndicate Finance Manager
Peter Brightman is a Third Party Syndicate Finance Manager at Chaucer - he is an accountant within the financial services sector. But he started off as a tennis player, travelling the world to Junior International...
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