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Employers' Forum on Disability is the world's leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Our mission is to enable companies to become disability confident by making it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers.

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Do you need to know more about disability and business?

We exist to support and help you to become more disability confident. Membership of Employers' Forum on Disability provides the tools you need to recruit and retain disabled employees and serve disabled customers. You also get the opportunity to network with other members and find out what they are doing.

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Megaquiz at Ironmongers' Hall

This year why not bring your team along to compete for the title of MegaQuiz Champion 2012. A good time is guaranteed, and who knows you may even learn a lot along the way.

Your compere for the evening will be Phil Friend (OBE FRSA), EFD associate and one of the UK's foremost consultants on disability matters.

Book your place at this event


20 pioneering organisations have now signed the EFD Recruitment Protocol

EFD Recruitment Protocol

de Poel, Diversity Jobs, Microlink, Remploy, Shaw Trust, RBLI, Cisco, NHS Employers, Leonard Cheshire, Eversheds, Deloitte, Royal Liverpool & Boradgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Ernst & Young, Reed, Mitie, Alexander Mann Solutions, Affinity Sutton Group, Equal Approach, GR Law and Mayer Brown have all committed to the protocol which requires all recruitment agencies they work with to identify and remove the common barriers faced by disabled candidates.

To sign up and demonstrate your commitment to a barrier-free recruitment process for disabled candidates download the EFD Recruitment Protocol here.

Benchmark your commitment

EFD Disabililty Standard logo

EFD has just launched a brand new initiative called Benchmark 100. It has been designed to support our members who have embarked on the Disability Standard 2012.

In the week since its launch a number of our members have already decided to utilise the brand new tools put in place to help them with the EFD evaluation part of the Disability Standard. These tools range from our tailored guidance to our new Mentoring Surgeries.

There has been a lot of buzz around our social media

Read the full story here


"Employers' Forum on Disability has helped us understand the potential from positively engaging with our disabled colleagues and customers. It's a real plus for our business."

Ian Cheshire, Group CEO Kingfisher plc 

Photograph of Ian Cheshire