Phab ACTS
Phab now offers Access Consulting & Training Services to private businesses of all sizes, other charities and the public sector.
ACTS
(Access Consulting & Training Services)
As well as its charity work, Phab now offers Access Consulting & Training Services (ACTS) to private businesses of all sizes, other charities and the public sector. Building on Phab’s Co-CEO Mik Scarlet’s earlier 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 Consulting & 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.
For more information or to ask about a quote, use our contact form here.
Meet The ACTS Team
Mik Scarlet
Co-CEO and Lead Trainer/Consultant
After a successful career in the music and media industries, 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 (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 and has a Doctorate from the University of Bedfordshire.
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.
Yoni Chepisheva
Trainer/Consultant
Diagnosed with Epilepsy as a child, and recently with Palinopsia, a visual cognition condition, Yoni has a BA from the LCC in environmental and industrial interior design. Her work focuses on creating inclusive spaces for all, using her lived experience and training to fuel her passion for designing a better built environment for all.
Joining Phab ACTS as a trainer and consultant, her speciality is creating inclusive interiors in environmental, commercial and residential spaces.
Vidya Nathan
Trainer/Consultant
Trained in access and inclusive design and an Access Association member, Vidya’s experience includes consulting and advisory services, built environment audits and website online information checks, delivering workshops and training, research, analysis, report-writing, accessibility user testing as well as virtual & in-person presentations and public speaking. As an individual who is severely sight impaired, Vidya understands the value and importance of inclusivity and accessibility and is enthusiastic about making a difference and breaking down barriers. She uses her lived experience, skills, and knowledge to drive the change to create a universally accessible and more inclusive world.
Hafsah Jalloh
Project Support Officer/Trainer
With over 11 years in management and consultancy, working in hospitality and the media, Hafsah has joined Phab ACTS both to support the project as manager and as a trainer/consultant. She organises projects, allocates them the relevant expert and manages them as they proceed. She is currently studying to support the Neurodiverse community.
With personal lived experience of being disabled, Hafsah is committed to equality and inclusion.
She is also a professional freelance photographer and coffee expert.
Phab Access Consulting & 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.
Another aim of the ACTS project is to train up the next generation of disabled experts with the skills and experience to develop and grow a career in inclusive design and practice.
Services
We provide a three-tier service;
Phab Agreed Training, providing a set training course, Phab Bespoke Service, where Phab works with the client to create a training or consultancy 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
- With external partners, such as Goss Consulting, Zone ND and Euan’s Guide, we can outsource advice and services to ensure our clients receive the very best service in all areas of access and inclusion
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.
Phab ACTS Partners
Move Media TV
Bespoke media company, covering all aspects of the creation and dispersal of media output, including social media campaigns.
Examples of Move Media Productions
- Scotrail Access – https://www.scotrail.co.uk/plan-your-journey/accessible-travel
- Norfolk Broads – https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mik-scarlet/accessible-tourism-the-no_b_15542158.html
- Accessible Newmarket – https://discovernewmarket.co.uk/accessibility/
ZoneND
ZoneND, we offer a comprehensive range of services aimed at transforming environments into supportive, inclusive spaces that prioritise mental health and well-being. Our services are tailored to meet the unique needs of each client, ensuring a positive impact on individuals, teams, and organisations.
Goss Consulting Ltd
Goss, one of the UK’s leading consulting and training providers, is partnering with Phab ACTS on several projects, and offering opportunities for our freelancers. Alongside our working relationship, Goss is also supporting the charity work of Phab.
Euan’s Guide
Phab ACTS are working with Euan’s Guide on several projects, and our proud to be partnered with the longest running source of online accessibility reviews by disabled people for disabled people of locations all over the UK and aboard
