City Disabilities is an organisation that supports professionals who have disabilities or long term medical conditions that affect their working lives. We also support students and graduates with disabilities or long term medical conditions, wherever they are studying, who would like to join a profession. Our aim is to make the City professions fairer, more human environments for people with disabilities to pursue their careers.
We know how intimidating it can be for a disabled student to go through the recruitment process and how isolating it can feel to have a disability in the workplace. We also know how difficult it can be for employers to be sure of the right thing to do. We have seen or gone through these problems ourselves and we want to avoid others having to do so.
Our help is available free of charge to students, employees and employers. We provide a free mentoring service to students and professionals with disabilities. We also help employers and colleagues of disabled professionals by delivering training and talks on the subject of disability.
We are entirely independent. We do not blacklist, endorse or kite mark employers, and we do not charge for our services, accept outside donations or accept payment for association with us, whether on our website or otherwise.
All of our mentors either have disabilities or medical conditions themselves, or support colleagues who have them. They include lawyers, bankers, accountants, PAs, civil servants, consultants and more. We mentor all types of disability, relating to both physical and mental health. We also work with employers to improve disability awareness.
If you can share your experiences or benefit from those of others through our mentoring scheme, then we’d love to hear from you. If you are an employer and are concerned to ensure that staff with disabilities are courteously and fairly treated, let us play our part by sharing our experiences with you.