About Difability
What the name means
Difability means different ability. Disability describes real experiences and real barriers. Difability also asks: what ability is here, and what needs to change for it to become opportunity?
Not to deny disability, but to make sure disability never becomes the whole definition of a person.
That is why Difability works with people’s skills and ambitions first, and with the support and changes that make work possible.
Difability and IT’S POSSIBLE NOW
Difability and IT’S POSSIBLE NOW are initiatives of the same company. They work together, and each has its own part.
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creates and tests routes to opportunity.
SHAPE
part of IT’S POSSIBLE NOW, finds barriers with people who have lived experience, and tests the changes that remove them.
Difability
turns what has been tested into recognised practice.
Recognition always follows practice: an organisation is recognised for changes it has made, tested and kept in use. Read how recognition works.
The company behind Difability
Difability is an initiative of IT’S POSSIBLE NOW COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY (Company No. 16430786). The company’s director is Ashraf Sharif. See the company on Companies House.
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY runs IT’S POSSIBLE NOW, a UK social enterprise creating practical, accessible routes into employment, self-employment, enterprise and paid co-design for disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and others facing barriers to work.
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW’s three routes for adults
BUILD
Your own enterprise.
BUILD means practical routes into viable self-employment and enterprise.
WORK
Paid employment.
WORK means genuine paid employment, with the adjustments you need and real chances to stay and progress.
SHAPE
Paid co-design and testing.
SHAPE pays people with lived experience to test and improve the places, services and systems everyone uses. They find the barriers, test the changes and record what worked, and that is the evidence Difability recognises.
The company’s other initiatives
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY also runs these initiatives. Each has its own website.
POSSIQUE
The company’s enterprise pathway, with practical opportunities to earn.
Qarseva
The company’s community service hub, inspired by seva: bringing people together to serve with dignity and practical action.
Langar2GO
A Qarseva community food initiative in the spirit of langar, the Sikh tradition of free community meals. Everyone is welcome.
SevaWin
The company’s community lottery, part of Qarseva.
What Difability does
Opportunities
Paid work, working for yourself and starting a business.
For employers and businesses
Hire and support staff, offer discounts and be recognised.
Difability recognition
Six levels, from free membership to Global Champion.
Anyone can recommend an organisation to Difability. A nomination does not give a level.
Nominate an organisation