Our Media enters new corporate partnership

Our Media Ltd, a Bristol-based specialist content company, and user led organisation West of England Centre for Inclusive Living (WECIL), has announced a corporate partnership for 2023, as WECIL support Our Media on their journey to become a ‘Disability Confident Leader’ through consultancy and training.

This new partnership will provide funding to WECIL’s business services Social Enterprise Disability.Inc, the company added, which is then gifted back to the charity to financially support the free services that WECIL offer to Disabled adults, children and young people.

A key element of the partnership will be supporting Our Media with recruitment processes and auditing the accessibility of job adverts and careers pages, insight days, work experience placements, mentoring, and training.

Alison Browning, Disability.Inc. business partner says, “We are delighted to be working with Our Media on their inclusive journey. WECIL has developed a range of highly effective training, consultancy and Access Audit services, that we provide to organisations to support them in creating workplaces and service offerings that are totally inclusive of Disabled People. These commercially traded activities provide huge impact, effecting systems change in employment and removing barriers, physical or otherwise, that exclude Disabled People from benefiting from business and services”.

Andy Marshall, group MD at Our Media comments, “WECIL is a fantastic organisation, and we are looking forward to working together. It's an important partnership for us as we ensure we're adopting fully inclusive recruitment processes, and that our disabled staff have the best working environment and are completely supported”.

Ezzy Pearson, chair of Our M.I.N.D., Our Media’s disability network group comments “It’s so heartening to see Our Media committing to working with an organisation like WECIL. Disabled people have a huge amount to offer and can bring unique and innovative insight. I am looking forward to seeing this unlocked throughout the company. Making the business more inclusive will benefit all of us in the company, as accessibility is for everyone.”