Artist's Resource Pack

Some disabled artists work as disability equality trainers, working with arts organisations and others to help them understand the social model of disability, Disability Discrimination Act and how they can best work with disabled people. (click here to visit the Disability Discrimination Act area of the site). Others work as Access Auditors, helping building based organisations improve and further develop their access for disabled people.

In the past, Shape has run a course training disabled people to deliver disability equality training. To find out more about Training the Trainers for Disability Equality Training, follow this link. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and to the Training the Trainers page of the Shape website (www.shapearts.org.uk/projects/ projectdetail/index.asp?view=23).

To find out more about becoming an Access Auditor check out The National Register of Access Consultants (NRAC). This is an independent register of accredited Access Auditors and Access Consultants who meet professional standards and criteria established by a peer review system. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and to the National Register of Access Consultants site (www.nrac.org.uk).

You could also take a look at the information and resources provided by the Centre for Accessible Environments. This link will take you out of the artists resource site and to the website for the Centre for Accessible Environments (www.cae.org.uk)

The JMU Partnership parts of the RNIB (their access consultancy arm) runs a range of courses for access professionals. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and to the RNIB site at the page about their courses (http://rnib.org.uk/professionals/solutionsforbusiness/trainingandconferences/buildings/Pages/buildings.aspx).