Phab now offers Access Consultancy & Training Services to private businesses of all sizes, other charities and the public sector.
As well as its charity work, Phab now offers Access Consultancy & Training Services (ACTS) to private businesses of all sizes, other charities and the public sector. Building on Phab’s new co-CEO Mik Scarlet’s previous experience as a renowned lecturer, trainer and consultant, Phab can now offer support to ensure best practice around interactions with disabled people, both as customers or service users and employees, as well as consultancy around the built environment. When working with Phab Access Consultancy & Training Services, as well as having access to the best of consultancy and training services, clients are helping Phab in its work, and supporting Phab to provide subsided and free training to our Phab Clubs, affiliated groups, other charities and DDPOs.
The goal of Phab has always been to promote inclusion, and we hope we can support our clients in this aim in whatever way they require.
Mik Scarlet
co-CEO and Lead Trainer/Consultant
After a successful career in the music and media industries, being one of the first well known disabled celebrities, Mik retrained as an access consultant and equality trainer in 2008. With a long client list, including Network Rail, TfL, C2C, Southeastern and Southern trains, The Stables Market, Koko and Ministry of Sound nightclubs, The Imperial War Museum, Cecil Sharp House and the Tate Modern Gallery (as well as being involved in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games' access provision and volunteer training), Mik is a leading light in the EDI community. His areas of speciality are access within historic buildings, inclusive universal design, inclusive service training, inclusive employment practice and training trainers. Mik has also lectured in Inclusive Design at the LCC and Kings College.
Libby Welsh
Trainer/Consultant
Trained professional dancer and actor, Libby Welsh is an up and coming name in the performance arts. Deaf since childhood, Libby is passionate about equality and inclusion and alongside her performing career has become known as a knowledgeable and talented access consultant and equality trainer. She has worked with the Creative Diversity Network, delivering their Disability 101 course, run training sessions for South East Dance, Dance Artists National Collective NYC, PPA EDI Committee, Tramp and the Guildhall changemakers series. Libby has worked as access coordinator for the Hamstead Theatre and is a specialist in creative accessible practice, as well as communicational and informational access provision.
Elisha Heard
Trainer
Having gained a degree in Special Educational Needs and Disability Studies, Elisha is passionate about all thing’s disability awareness, inclusivity, and accessibility. She has seven years’ experience working with disabled children and adults.
Elisha has delivered training in a variety of settings, including education, day centres, performing arts, residential clubs and many more too!
She is especially passionate about ‘Effective Communication’, ‘Autism Awareness’, and ‘Supporting all behaviours and emotions”. She has qualifications in sign language and teaches this in her ‘Effective Communication’ sessions alongside other communication tools and methods.
Phab Access Consultancy & Training Services also has a team of qualified training support workers, assisting our team of lived experience trainers to provide clients with personal experience based training sessions to improve understanding of individual impairments.
We provide a three-tier service, Phabulous Agreed Training, the Phab Bespoke Service, where Phab works with the client to create a training package, and the Phab Concierge Service where Phab ACTS will organise everything a client might need, taking full responsibility for all disability-related EDI requirements on an ongoing basis.
All these tiers can include:
Full Access Consultancy Service
Access Auditing
Access Support for Small Business/Charities
Inclusive Service Training for customer facing staff
Inclusive Employment Practice Training
Social Model and Societal Barriers Training
Empowering Language and Portrayal Training
Creative Inclusive Practice Training and Guidance
Accessible Communication and Information Training and Guidance
Accessible Social Media Training
Public Sector Equality Training
Equality Impact Assessment Process Training and Super User services
Impairment Specific Lived Experience Sessions
Co-production panel creation support
Media For Charities Sessions
Through external production company Move Media TV, a bespoke access video for websites and social media and video content for training packages
We always fit our services to suit a client’s requirements, so if you think Phab ACTS can help you please get in touch and together we can build a more accessible, inclusive tomorrow.
For more information or to ask about a quote, use our contact form here.
“The experiences that Harriet has at Phab are having a huge impact on her whole development. A huge thank you to everyone who makes that possible.”
“This adventure gave Sarah time to grow and realise that being away from home is normal. So when she gets into her adulthood it won’t be so scary.”
“My daughter doesn’t get to go out to play with the local children and doesn’t get invited to many parties – but all of these things she enjoys at Phab.”
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