Learning, work, enterprise and community
Opportunity without labels.
Explore routes into learning, paid work, enterprise and community life for people facing barriers. Share your ideas, find a next step, or help create an opportunity.
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Where to start
Choose the option that describes you. Each one opens the right part of the contact form.
- Young people, individuals and familiesRegister interest in NEET to OPPORTUNITY, have your say in Youth Voice or ask a question, for yourself or someone you support.
- Employers and enterpriseOffer jobs, work experience, mentoring or training, or collaborate as a business.
- Education, community and delivery organisationsColleges, training providers, referrers, charities, commissioners, funders, and sports, arts and youth groups.
Free, takes a few minutes and commits you to nothing.
NEET to OPPORTUNITY
Six pathways. One future. Real opportunities.
For young people who are not in education, employment or training, or who could be soon. Each person chooses the pathways that suit them and moves at their own pace.
NEET to OPPORTUNITY 65 is a proposed 12-month pilot for 65 young people in Greater Manchester.
- LEARNEducation, qualifications, training, digital and vocational skills, mentoring and personal development.
- BUILDCreativity, entrepreneurship, starting a business and self-employment.
- WORKPreparing for work, workplace experience, apprenticeships, employers and suitable jobs.
- EARNFair pay, enterprise income, budgeting and confidence with money.
- SHAPEYouth leadership, accessibility, disability inclusion and co-design.
- ENJOY SUCCESSFriendship, creativity, wellbeing and belonging, and celebrating personal progress from the first day.
The access argument
The skills and ideas are there. What makes the difference is access: to premises, transport and equipment, to an employer ready to make an adjustment, and to a way into trading.
For disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, veterans and anyone facing barriers to work, and for the people who support them.
Your voice. Your future.
Young people in Greater Manchester can tell us what gets in the way, what would help and what should change. You do not need to join anything to have your say.
- Tell us
- Shape it
- See progress
- Keep improving
Our Opportunity Network
Our own initiatives, the independent businesses we work with, and the delivery organisations we have approached. Each has a different role.
Initiatives of IT’S POSSIBLE NOW CIC
NEET to OPPORTUNITY, Difability and POSSIQUE.
Independent businesses
Nuriqa and Gazian Water, each with its own brand, business and plans.
Delivery organisations we have approached
Specialists in education, youth engagement and disability inclusion.
We measure what happens next
We do not measure success by participation. We measure it by what becomes possible afterwards.
WORK
- Paid starts
- Hours
- Earnings
- Retention
- Progression
BUILD
- Customers
- Transactions
- Turnover
- Earned income
- How long trading lasts
SHAPE
- Paid assignments
- Barriers identified
- Changes tested
- Changes adopted
Accessibility
- Barrier identified
- Adjustment tested
- Cost
- Whether it worked
- Whether it is still in use, where that applies
For partners
Fund, host, employ or partner on delivery, or commission paid co-design and accessibility testing through SHAPE, the route that pays people with lived experience for that work.
The gap is wide. From April to June 2025, 52.8% of disabled people in the UK were in work, compared with 82.5% of non-disabled people. Source: DWP, The employment of disabled people 2025.
Four ways to get involved
Commission or take part in SHAPE
Want your workplace, recruitment, website, service or space tested and improved? SHAPE pays people with lived experience to find the barriers and test the changes that remove them.
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW is run by IT’S POSSIBLE NOW COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY (company number 16430786). Who is behind IT’S POSSIBLE NOW
What we do
- You have ability.
- Something may be getting in the way.
- We listen before deciding the route.
- We work with you to remove practical barriers.
- Then we connect support to something real.
- BUILD something.WORK somewhere.SHAPE something better.
- Then we measure whether it actually led somewhere.
Watch the film
The people shown in this concept film are illustrative, not actual participants.
Read the transcript
Sometimes the barrier isn’t ability. It’s the route people are expected to take.
So we start differently. Not with what someone can’t do, but with what they can.
Skills. Experience. Ideas. Ambition. They don’t disappear because a traditional route becomes inaccessible.
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW creates another route into employment, self-employment and enterprise.
That might begin at home, online, in a workplace, or with a small idea that can grow.
And where disability or a health condition creates an extra cost or practical barrier, support may already exist. Government programmes such as Access to Work can provide eligible people with practical support to help them start or stay in work.
And that can include self-employment, turning ability into real economic participation.
Because sometimes the answer isn’t fitting somebody into an old job. It’s creating a new way to earn. A product. A service. A trade. A customer. A sale. Income.
And support should lead somewhere: towards confidence, responsibility, independence and progress.
That is why we say Difability. Not to deny disability, but to make sure disability never becomes the whole definition of a person.
See the difference. Recognise the ability. Create the opportunity.
But funding alone doesn’t create a future. Opportunity does.
Different abilities. Real opportunities. IT’S POSSIBLE NOW Community Interest Company.
What the film shows. The film shows people at work in a bright Manchester workspace and around the city: photographing clothes, writing product listings, packing orders, checking stock, selling from a mobile retail cart, making sales, and talking over plans at a table. The people are of different ages and backgrounds; some use wheelchairs. It ends on the IT’S POSSIBLE NOW logo, the line “New opportunities. New ways to earn.”, the company name and ipncic.com.
Questions people ask
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW is a UK social enterprise, run as a community interest company, that creates practical routes into employment, self-employment, enterprise and paid co-design. It is for disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and others facing barriers to work. The three routes are BUILD, WORK and SHAPE, and each one leads to earning.
Read more on the About page or see the three routes.
It is for disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, veterans and anyone facing barriers to work, and for the people who support them. Organisations take part too: employers, funders, venues and community partners can work with IT’S POSSIBLE NOW by employing, funding, hosting or referring.
If you are not sure whether it is for you, register your interest and tell us about yourself. You do not need to share a diagnosis.
BUILD is independent enterprise: starting or growing your own business or trade. WORK is genuine paid employment, with the adjustments you need. SHAPE is paid co-design and testing: being paid to find barriers in workplaces, services and spaces and to test the changes that remove them. Every route leads to earning, and you can choose more than one.
See all three on the opportunities page.
Yes. Registering your interest is free, takes a few minutes and commits you to nothing. Getting in touch with Difability is also free, and so is Difability membership for organisations. If you register through the contact form, you do not need to share a diagnosis.
Registering is the first step on every route, and what is available to you depends on fit and on the partners and funding in place. We will be clear with you about what is available. The route is worked out together in conversation, and the measures we publish look at what happens afterwards, such as paid starts, earnings and trading that lasts.
An employer can offer a genuine paid role with clear expectations, proper adjustments and a way to progress. Each role is agreed with the employer around the person, so there is no vacancy list. Employers can use the contact form and choose “I represent an employer”.
See the Employ option or go straight to the employer form.
Start with a conversation
Tell us about yourself and the route that interests you. We reply using the contact method you choose, with any adjustment you ask for, and talk through what would suit you.
Free, takes a few minutes and commits you to nothing.
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