Who we are.

Purple Reach is a disability consultancy aiming to help businesses and Community organisations everywhere better understand disability and what their business can do to improve there services to make them accessible to all.

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What we do.

With over 30 years of lived-experience in disability,

we are here to work with you to offer support

and guidance through a range of services including; Access Auditing, Training, Mystery Shopping, Consultancy.

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Why is this important?

At Purple Reach, we believe in the social model of disability and it guides everything we do.

Did you know that 20% of the population of the UK has a disability? This equates to over 11 million people whilst the annual spending power of the purple pound (people with disabilities) equates to £212 billion per annum. Three-quarters of customers with disabilities walk away due to an organisation’s lack of understanding of disability and it's estimated that

this leads to a business losing a potential £1.8 billion per month.

 

The Social Model of Disability.

The Social Model believes that people are not disabled by their disability, health condition or impairment; but indeed, they are actually disabled by the attitudes and barriers that wider society places upon them.

The social model movement seeks to remove

these barriers.