Supporting volunteers with physical disabilities
Disabled people experience exclusion from mainstream opportunities due to environmental, attitudinal and organisational barriers rather than due to the effects of their impairments.
Inclusive volunteering is about making volunteering accessible for everyone. The Government’s Compact Code of Good Practice recognises the need ‘to effectively tackle discrimination to ensure that volunteering is open to all’. A major barrier to more young disabled people becoming involved in volunteering is the basic problem of disablism in society.
(Taken from ‘Can Do Volunteering’, Leonard Cheshire, Scope, Russell Commission)
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