About Us

Founders of Disabled Entrepreneurs, Shane Bratby, Dom Smith, Annie Makoff

We are specialist team of disabled entrepreneurs with backgrounds in Journalism and PR, Sales and Marketing and motivational speaking.

Our objectives:

To inspire AND support people with any disability to become (or are already) a Disabled Entrepreneur
To provide business networking opportunities among people of all ages and disabilities
To signpost opportunities for accessible and appropriate training and development to Disabled Entrepreneurs.
To discuss business challenges at our board meetings as a collective.
To share our business contacts and our leads with other members.
To assist in looking at strategic issues around disability, small business management and self-employment.
To bring exciting business benefits to our members.
To bring confidence/hope to other organizations by do doing inspiring talks.
To inspire AND support people with any disability to become a Disabled Entrepreneur.
To provide business networking opportunities among disabled people of all ages and disabilities.
To be the centre point of disabled in business related news.

What makes us unique?

We are the only UK organisation for Disabled Entrepreneurs by Disabled Entrepreneurs.

We are constantly growing and developing our strong network of skilled disabled people, whilst spreading the message that entrepreneurship is the way forward for a disabled person determined to succeed in business and financial security.

Our news sections keep our members abreast of developments within the disabled and business world. We are always interested in your stories – so please contact us if you have any relevant stories for our members that could feature in our news pages.

NB: We refer to the term ‘disabled’ or ‘disability’ regularly throughout our website. The terms, as we use them, refers to anyone who may have a physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental disability or a combination of these.

An entrepreneur is a person who has founded a new enterprise, venture or idea and is accountable for the inherent risks and the outcome. We work with those who have a new or established venture and offer support.