Hachette UK’s Accessibility network signs partnership with Mencap

Hachette UK’s Accessibility Network, which supports those with disabilities and neurodiversity to create, read, access and work, has announced a partnership with Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, to deliver talks, fundraiser activities and awareness-raising events.

The partnership aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of learning disability by generating as much visibility of people with a learning disability as possible to reduce the everyday stigma and misunderstanding this group face. 

People with learning disabilities face huge inequality every day of their lives. They are more likely to be socially isolated, nearly twice as likely to be inactive and die on average over two decades earlier compared to those without a learning disability. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this inequality and people with a learning disability are one of the groups who had been hit hardest. Mencap has continued to provide the highest quality frontline care to thousands of people with a learning disability while advocating for the rights of the 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK and their families. Most notably, the charity successfully campaigned for the inclusion of people with a learning disability in priority groups for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout programme.

The partnership with Mencap forms a key part of the Accessibility Network’s outreach agenda for this year, and its aim is to increase awareness of learning disabilities within the company and host at least five fundraiser activities, encouraging network members and other Hachette UK employees to engage with the amazing work that Mencap does for people with a learning disability, who face huge inequalities in every area of life.

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