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IT’S POSSIBLE NOW
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How it works

From first conversation to real work

We begin with you, not with a placement decided in advance. We listen, remove practical barriers and connect you to a real route: an enterprise of your own, a paid job or paid co-design work. Then we check whether it led somewhere.

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The five steps

Each step starts from what you can do. The route comes after we have listened, never before.

  1. Listen and assess

    We begin with you: your strengths, your experience, what you want to do, how you prefer to work, and what is getting in the way. We do not start with a placement decided in advance.

  2. Remove practical barriers

    We work out the practical changes and support that would make the difference, such as access, equipment, transport, communication or adjustments at work. Where a disability or health condition creates an extra cost, government support may already exist.

    Access to Work is a government programme that can help eligible people pay for practical support in a job or in self-employment. Check Access to Work on GOV.UK.

  3. Match a real route

    We connect you to the genuine route that suits you best: an enterprise of your own, a paid job, or paid co-design work. It can be in one of the settings we work with, with an external employer, or in a business you run yourself.

    • BUILDStart and run your own business or trade, and earn from it.
    • WORKA paid job with a real employer, with the adjustments you need to do it.
    • SHAPEGet paid to test and improve workplaces, services, websites and spaces, because you already know where they fail.

    The three routes in fullWhere opportunities are developed

  4. Sustain and progress

    We keep checking whether the arrangement is working for you, change it when it is not, and look for the next step: more hours, more customers or more responsibility.

  5. Evidence what works

    We record what happened, what it cost and what changed. Every result we publish comes with the method behind it and the limits of what it shows.

We measure what happens next

We do not measure success by participation. We measure it by what becomes possible afterwards.

That means more than attendance or finishing a course. For each route, and for every adjustment we make, we record what changed.

  • 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

Every result we publish comes with the method behind it and the limits of what it shows.

People work together

Difference is recognised without becoming a dividing line.

IT’S POSSIBLE NOW does not split people into separate groups by disability, age, health, ethnicity, culture, faith or background. People work together, learn together, share skills, build enterprises, serve customers and contribute together.

Community cohesion is more than bringing different groups into one room. It comes from real relationships, built through shared work, shared responsibility and things achieved together.

Skills that pass between generations

Older people take part as contributors of knowledge and experience, not only as people receiving a service. Younger people bring skills of their own. Each learns from the other.

What experience often brings

  • Sewing
  • Alterations
  • Garment knowledge
  • Quality checking
  • Customer service
  • Bookkeeping
  • Business experience
  • Trades
  • Mentoring

What younger people often bring

  • Digital
  • Technology
  • Media
  • New kinds of enterprise
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Taking part

What registering does

It tells us who you are, which route interests you, and how you would like us to contact you. Registering is free, takes a few minutes and commits you to nothing.

What happens next

  1. Your details go straight to the IT’S POSSIBLE NOW team.
  2. We reply using the contact method you chose, with any adjustment you asked for.
  3. We talk through the routes that interest you and what would suit you.
  4. We agree the next step together.

Registration is open

Registering is the first step on every route. Each opportunity depends on fit and on the partners and funding in place, and we will always be clear with you about what is available.

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Communication that suits you

Tell us how you would rather be contacted and what would make it easier: a different format, more time, someone else in the conversation, a specific method.

  • The format you want: large print, plain text, or easy read.
  • The method that works: email, phone call or text message.
  • More time to reply, or a set time when it suits you to talk.
  • Someone else in the conversation with you.

You never need to share a diagnosis.

How we handle health information

If you are supporting someone

You can register on someone’s behalf with their agreement, or ask us about referring them. Tell us how they prefer to be contacted.

Register for yourself or for someone else

Both use the same short form. Tell us how you would like to be contacted and we will use that.

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