Inclusive Employment Support
Toolkits and E-Guides
Inclusivity Toolkits
To support our South London businesses to create fully inclusive workplaces the South London Integration Hub has compiled resources to help employers on their journeys towards organisational culture change.
Mayor of London Inclusive Employer Toolkit
Actions span across five themes, including commitment, recruitment practices, retention, inclusive culture and supplier diversity.
Employers Inclusion Toolkit
Interested in welcoming a more diverse workforce to your business?
This toolkit explores supporting those with disability and long term health conditions at work.
Employment Gap
Active Inclusion & South London No Wrong Door
SLP and Active Inclusion
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The South London Integration Hub and South London Partnership are delighted to have been involved in the Active Inclusion pilot and production of video resources for employers.
Hear/view the stories written, recorded and edited by the Active Inclusion Team on what makes a happy workplace and why it’s important to show yourself at work.
Find out more about the Active Inclusion journey in the video below.
- Narrated by Sally Lewis, a co-producer with Active Inclusion. She is a freelance curator specializing in dance in museums, working with co-creation and collections in this area to promote equity, diversity and inclusion
This co-production project was funded by the South London Integration Hub as part of the Mayor’s No Wrong Door Programme.
What is Active Inclusion?
Lived experience is shared on our terms. Active Inclusion ensures members have full control over how their stories are shared – safely, respectfully, and in ways that create meaningful change.
They’ve moved from ideas to action. Through their Community of Practice, they’ve built tools, shared ways of working, and are developing a living archive to help employers learn directly from lived experience.
It works because it puts people first. By focusing on what individuals need to thrive, Active Inclusion helps employers build workplaces where people stay, grow, and succeed – leading to lower turnover and more motivated teams.
Want to get involved? Follow Active Inclusion on LinkedIn, visit their website (launching soon), or get in touch to be part of co-producing better, fairer work through lived experience.
Why it’s important to show myself at work. Raisa
- Raisa Hassan is the Poet in Residence and Psychological Safety Officer of Active Inclusion: Equity in Employment. She is a writer and poet who focuses her work on disability and Intersectionality whilst investigating the impact of language used around disabled people and about disabled people – enabling us all to create simultaneous physically and psychologically safe spaces.
What’s a happy workplace? Kealy
- Kealy is a supported employment coordinator, working with young neurodivergent adults on employability skills and supporting them with work experience, with the aim to get the young people paid employment. Kealy has been in the campaigning and activism space for over 10 years.
Why it’s important to show myself at work. Amanda
- Amanda Cummins is deputy head of coproduction and involvement at South West London St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. As a mental health nurse and mental health carer, she uses her lived and learned experience to support collaboration between staff and people who’ve accessed service. Their aim is to improve and develop services, support the development of carers initiatives and oversee both the volunteer and peer support workforces within the Trust.
What’s a happy workplace? Sylvia
- Sylvia Ugboaja has over 20 years experience in healthcare, social and people’s services – is a campaigner for equality in human and disability rights.
Social Model of disability. Tim
- Tim Dixon is an IT professional, accessibility advocate, and assistive technology enthusiast, driving inclusive change through expertise, advocacy, and community engagement.
What’s a happy workplace? Rakesh
- Rakesh Patel is a co-producer, and volunteer, with specialisms in IT knowledge and creative software packages, and involvement with Active Inclusion and the NHS.
Why it’s important to show myself at work? Kealy
Why it’s important to show myself at work? Sylvia
Why it’s important to show myself at work. Rakesh
Employer events
Building Happier Futures: Lunch and Learn with John Lewis Partnership
- What care-experience is and why the John Lewis Partnership is supporting this community
- What is the Building Happier Futures and what are the aims
- John Lewis Partnership’s Employability Programme
- How to refer young people to the programme
Missed it? Reach out to admin@southlondonpartnership.co.uk for the session recording (not to be shared).
South London Supported Internships Employer Workshop
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Explore the impact of Supported Internships in SWL
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Learn more about work carried out around Supported Internships in local boroughs like Sutton
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Learn from Mencap about how Supported Internships can enrich your workforce and key terminology used in the space
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DFN Project Search on the importance of being a sponsor employer
Previous Lunch & Learns
Organisations for Inclusive Employment Support
| Organisation | Summary |
| Care Trade | Helping organisations support diversity, and become more confident with autism and neurodiversity |
| JobCentre Plus | Recruitment advice for employers, work trials and advice on recruiting people with a disability |
| Noo Thinking | Noo Thinking is a consultancy, focused on effective communication, based in South London. |
| People Plus | Helping create social value with free recruitment services |
| Super highways | Advice, training and IT support for small charities and community organisations |
| Richmond Work Match | Free tailored recruitment service to find local candidates |
| WorkFit | Provides info, support and training to employers hiring someone with Downs Syndrome |
| Successful Mums | Providing funded training to help mums get career ready or start their own business. |
| New Futures Network | Supporting employers to help prison leavers secure employment |
Additional Resources
Mind in Kingston – Employers Framework
Champions for Change Kingston, a local campaign reducing mental health stigma, presents the groundbreaking ‘Employers Framework’, a free toolkit for businesses. Join us for a deep-dive of the toolkit, hear from lived experience speakers, and discover how you can progress your business to a mental health stigma free workplace.
We hosted a Lunch and Learn in partnership with Mind in Kingston in June 2025, where we covered:
- Supporting mental health in the workplace’ toolkit
- Learn how to progress your business to a mental health stigma free workplace.
Next Steps in London
A guide produced by the four London Career Hubs, containing information on the pathways and routes available, as you move through education and training into employment.
A Neurodiversity Toolkit
3SC have put together this Toolkit to share some of their own learning and help provide better, more engaging dervices for neurodiverse participants, customers and colleagues.
Recruiting with Essential Skills Toolkit
