SPECTRUM has received some limited and short term funding from the Community Support Fund, which will enable them to support the Disabled People who were made redundant when the Southampton Remploy factory closed in 2012
This funding has enabled them to set up a job-club to provide more intensive and one-to-one support and assist these people to find new work and to develop new opportunities.
This approach has already led to some successes in helping find work and work experience for some people, and SPECTRUM believe there is more to come.
SPECTRUM’s approach is to aim to set up mainstream work opportunities for those made redundant
For more information see the April 2013 edition of the SPECTRUM newsletter.
On 30th January 2013 SCIL changed its name from the Southampton Centre for Independent Living to SPECTRUM Centre for Independent Living.
SPECTRUM is a User Led Organisation, run and controlled by Disabled People. Its guiding principle is that disability issues are human rights issues. It works to a Social Model of Disability philosophy, which defines disability in terms of the negative attitudes and discrimination caused by a society which fails to recognise or meet the needs of Disabled People.
