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Healthwatch is a national, independent consumer champion for health and social care throughout England. With branches in every region of England, Healthwatch provides citizens with the chance to speak up and have their opinions heard on local healthcare matters and services. Healthcare providers can then use this information to respond to feedback and address any concerns. We recently partnered with the Torbay branch of Healthwatch.

The Grey Matter Group works with organisations across the health and social care sectors to improve lives through learning. It does this by supporting health and social providers with online learning and assessments. Its customers range from NHS trusts, to local authorities, to care homes, domiciliary care providers, learning disability providers and individual employers.

VERCIDA.com helps employers attract candidates from diverse backgrounds in a proactive way through positive action, while clearly showcasing their employer value proposition. The platform also offers jobseekers all the information they need to make an informed decision about whether an employer is the right fit for them.

RIDI is a unique initiative to drive change in recruitment and remove the barriers faced by the millions of disabled people who are entering or progressing through the job market. RIDI believes more needs to be done to build disability confidence into recruitment and employment strategies, and campaigns actively to achieve this. RIDI started six years ago and the RIDI Awards, which began in 2014, are now becoming a regular fixture on the recruitment industry calendar.

Torridge District Council is located within the north west of Devon and has a population of around 67,000 people. The district is divided into 23 Wards and is predominantly rural. The main towns are Bideford, Holsworthy and Torrington, with almost half of the population living in or close to Bideford/ Northam and the remainder of the area fairly sparsely populated.

Luton Community Housing Ltd (LCH) is a growing not-for-profit housing association that provides homes for people in the community. Tenants are culturally diverse and increasingly have English as an additional language. Luton Community Housing empowers tenants to take control of the management of their homes and participate in the development of their communities so that they can help improve their environment and their quality of life. Working in partnership with many other local agencies, LCH also offers additional help and support to its tenants on financial, employment/training and personal issues.

Anglian Building Products, which is the large project division of Anglian Windows, was looking for an accessibility solution that gives much greater flexibility. It operates predominantly in the social housing refurbishment sector installing window, door and external wall insulation solutions and engaging with residents through the journey is a priority

Cranfield University is an exclusively postgraduate and research-led university specialising in science, engineering, technology and management. It works very closely with industry to offer students high-quality project research opportunities and also offers a range of short courses and professional development courses across the university’s areas of specialism. Students from over 100 countries across the world come to study at the university, and international students are a key market for the university.

Breckland Council and South Holland District Council are two completely independent district councils in East England that share a senior management structure, which the local authorities believe is a more efficient operating model.

Gateshead Carers Association is a charity that helps unpaid adult carers living or working in the borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. It provides confidential advice and information alongside practical and emotional support that is tailored to each individual carer. It campaigns to influence policies at local government level and works closely with employers and service providers to improve carers’ lives.

Investigo is a global recruitment firm with offices in the UK and one in New York, recruiting across a number of different sectors that includes accountancy, finance, procurement, technology, and many more. Recruitment websites are notoriously difficult to navigate, however, Investigo has been taking active measures to improve its accessibility and reduce candidates’ barriers of entry within the job market.

Guidant Global is an award-winning recruitment outsourcing provider and part of Impellam, one of the UK’s largest staffing companies. It offers tailored Managed Service Provider (MSP), Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Statement of Work and Consultancy (SOW) solutions that future-proof its clients’ recruitment and transform their workforce management strategy.

St. Johnstone Football Club is a professional football club in the Scottish Premiership League based in Perth, Scotland. Known to fans as The Saints, the club was founded in 1884 when a group of local cricketers was looking for a winter sport. Now, the team’s home is McDiarmid Park, the UK’s first seated purpose-built football stadium. The Saints are the first professional football club in the UK to adopt Recite Me’s accessibility software.

We provide Emergency Services, patient Transport Services and the 111 non-emergency service across the North East to 2.7 million people. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion means it is increasingly important for us to ensure people can access and interact with our website.

Great Western Railway (GWR) is a leading transport company operated by FirstGroup. It manages over 200 train stations and its trains call at over 270 stations. GWR operates long-distance intercity services along the Great Western main line between London and the South West England and South Wales. It also runs commuter and outer-suburban services from London Paddington to West London and the Thames Valley region plus regional services throughout the West of England to the South coast of England.