Empowering Engineers to Create an Accessible World

Because everyone should belong, we’re bridging the gap, enabling the engineering world to hear and understand the voices of the disabled community.

Disabled? Your Voice Matters!

Is your world inaccessible? Do you want engineers to create accessible facilities, buildings and websites?

You need to tell them! Now is your chance. Get your voice heard. Help engineers understand so they can build an accessible world.

We're Helping Engineers Understand

Towards Belonging is committed to helping the engineering world understand the needs of the disabled community. Here’s how we educate and promote inclusive design – one wheel at a time – so everyone can belong.

Facilitation, collaboration and partnership working

Foster productive discussions and collaborative problem-solving sessions. We use conversations and interactions with disabled people to help engineers understand the reasons for inclusive thinking and inclusive engineering design.

Inclusive Engineering Education

Enable the integration of first hand experiences into the design process with our inclusive engineering education that includes lectures, discussion forums, and consultations.

Keynote speeches

Engage and inspire your audience with insightful presentations on accessible engineering and inclusive design principles.

Mentoring

Benefit from personalised guidance and support. We are dedicated to nurturing talent and fostering inclusivity in engineering.

What Our Clients Think

“We worked with Katy as a speaker for an event for IET Scholarship recipients and she was both excellent and engaging in her delivery.

She was incredibly informative and spoke at length about a truly important subject that young engineers should keep at the forefront of their minds. Katy drew on her own personal experiences to bring the subject to life even more to fully demonstrate the significance and independence of equality, diversity and inclusion for engineers.

We look forward to the opportunity to work with Katy in the future.”

Tanya Spencer

IET Awards and Prizes Manager

“As part of our plans for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024, we were delighted to welcome Katy to our network group meeting to share the IET’s work and commitments to neurodiversity and EDI in general.

Katy is a fantastic speaker. Her presentation was full of knowledge, energy, and a clear passion for the subjects. As a neurodiversity network, we took away some great insights and advice that we immediately found useful, and we also received ideas for developing neuro-inclusion practices at Hoare Lea.

We look forward to staying in touch with Katy and welcoming her back for future updates and guidance.”

Richard Wood

Senior HR Business Partner, Hoare Lea

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