Inclusion Barnet

This means that all of our Trustees and most of our staff have lived experience of disability.  We are pan-impairment, so disability can include mental health issues and/or long-term conditions. This experience gives us a deep understanding of how society can be made more equal and inclusive. 

Learning to use lived experience for social change is a skill. We have become experts in harnessing lived experience of our staff, members, volunteers, and the people who use our services. We use this understanding to design and deliver higher quality, more person-centred services. This benefits both disabled people and society more widely. We also support other organisations to do the same. 

Every day, disabled people everywhere overcome barriers in order to participate in society and to access many things that non-disabled people take for granted. The Social Model of Disability recognises this inequality and the need for change. The Social Model of Disability is at the heart of everything we do. 

Many members of our team are part of alliances, panels and boards which represent the communities we work with, such as the  Disability Benefits Consortium and the Equalities Network. We also form partnerships to deliver services and are a proud partner in the Barnet Together Alliance with the Young Barnet Foundation, Volunteering Barnet, and Barnet Council.  

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