List of Disability and Access Ambassadors
Disability and Access Ambassadors help to ensure businesses are doing all they can to support their disabled customers.
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Disability and Access Ambassadors are senior business leaders. They drive improvements in the accessibility and quality of services and facilities in their sector for disabled people, helping to ensure businesses are doing all they can to support disabled customers. The roles are voluntary. They serve for up to 3 years, and are managed by the Disability Unit (part of the Office for Equality and Opportunity).
The Ambassadors cover the following private sector industries:
- advertising
- arts and culture
- aviation
- banking
- built environment
- buses
- countryside
- creative industries
- energy
- heritage
- hospitality (pubs and restaurants)
- housing (private)
- insurance
- rail travel
- recruitment
- retail
- sports and physical activity
- technology and web accessibility
- tourism
- universities
The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Social Security and Disability said:
I am very pleased to be working with this impressive group of senior leaders, whose expertise and enthusiasm engenders positive changes in accessibility for disabled people. They are really supporting the government in this important work. They are generous with their time and support. The Disability and Access Ambassadors help us to improve all disabled people’s lives, by using their experience and insight throughout their sectors, and supporting the changes in accessibility we want to see across a wide range of private sector industries.
Official portrait of Sir Stephen Timms MP
Updates to this page
Published 28 July 2021Last updated 11 December 2024 + show all updates
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Removed statement and image for Mims Davies and replaced with those for Sir Stephen Timms. Removed ambassadors Caroline Eglington and Ben Horner and replaced with Alison Smith and Elisabeth Wooller.
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There is a new Disability and Access Ambassador for the advertising industry, Josh Bullmore. His biography replaces that of Michael Alhadeff, the previous ambassador for advertising.
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Replaced foreword and image of Tom Pursglove MP with Mims Davies MP.
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Updated ambassador for creative industries. Replaced image and quote of Chloe Smith with Tom Pursglove.
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Replaced ambassadors for advertising, built environment, countryside and retail with new appointees. Added an ambassador for a new sector (heritage).
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Replaced Kathryn Townsend’s title and profile with updated text.
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Added 4 new ambassadors and their biographies.
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