The difference we make

The Disability Resource Centre needs you There are plenty of opportunities to volunteer at The Disability Resource Centre. Whatever your skills and experience or time you have to give, we would love to hear from you. We have a range of opportunities across our services to support people with disabilities, carers and family members. Join

We help disabled people to gain confidence and prepare them for work. Read how Susan and Terry secured new jobs after attending our courses.

We run Carers Central with a dedicated team working hard to ensure that people with dependents with any condition, of any age, can identify as a ‘carer’. We help with 1-2-1 support, regular meet-ups with other carers and more.

Over 12,500 people contacted us with an enquiry related to a disability or health condition and two thirds asked about more than one topic. We supported over 2,000 disabled people to directly employ their own carers and more.

Mrs W is managing to live independently in most ways but she was finding it increasingly difficult to set her gas oven temperature correctly. We helped her find a solution with the charity REMAP, who came up with an ingenious design to fix safer controls to her oven.

Our health and wellbeing partnerships have led to some remarkable achievements. One of our clients in Luton ‘has lost over 3 stone and is now out of the chair in the gym doing sit ups’.

We have helped people claim over £1,000,000 in benefits in 2016/17. Our service covers Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Luton.