Business without Barriers was a hive of activity during Naidex 2026, bringing together employers and service providers to promote equal work opportunities and connect with talented job seekers.
Here, we spotlight some of the organisations, recruitment specialists and consultants featured in this year’s exhibition who are striving to remove barriers to ensure disabled and neurodivergent people can play an active role in the working world.
Evenbreak
Evenbreak connects deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people and those with long-term health conditions with inclusive employers through its accessible job board, bespoke training resources and consultancy.
As a global disability inclusion partner, the company works with organisations to improve recruitment and retention and foster inclusive environments by removing barriers and enabling people to thrive.
Its services are led entirely by and for disabled people, ensuring authenticity and keeping lived experience at the heart of its work.
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Banking Group takes a proactive, evidence-led approach to inclusion, guided by the Equality Act and shaped by colleague lived experience.
Its ‘This Is Me’ disability and neuro-inclusion upskill programme has been completed by over 47,000 colleagues and line managers so far. Developed in collaboration with colleagues, it includes an interactive e-module, practical toolkits and workshops for line managers. A public facing version of the eLearning can be accessed here.
Inclusive design is also reflected in Lloyd’s workplaces. Its Halifax hub office was recently recognised with a British Council for Offices Corporate Workplace award, highlighting its accessible design, wellbeing spaces and strong focus on inclusion.
Action Deafness
Founded in 1897, Action Deafness is a UK deaf-led charity providing specialist services and support for deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing communities across the UK.
Alongside its community services, including care and support and BSL interpreting, the organisation partners with businesses across the UK to deliver accessibility solutions that improve inclusion, strengthen communication, and remove barriers for deaf and hard of hearing customers.
It also supports teams develop deaf awareness and confidence in communicating more effectively, while helping organisations meet compliance with equality and accessibility legislation.
AptoLink
AptoLink helps organisations remove workplace barriers through practical accessibility support, assistive technology, including hardware and software solutions, and training.
If staff use Microsoft 365, line-of-business systems, meetings platforms, and everyday digital tools to do their jobs, the company helps ensure they can do so comfortably, confidently, and productively - whether they have sight impairment, hearing loss or deterioration, or cope with a neurodivergent condition.
Ingeus
Ingeus offers inclusive recruitment and retention services, designed to support people with disabilities and/or health conditions into meaningful, sustainable work, and to help employers access diverse, high‑potential talent they might otherwise miss.
A key part of its offer is Change 100, a not‑for‑profit programme which supports talented disabled students and graduates to access paid internship opportunities and training with leading employers across the UK.
National Film and Television School
The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is an educational institution specialising in courses for film, television and games.
During Naidex, the organisation showcased how it is working to make creative education more accessible for everyone. From January 2027, nine new fully accessible student rooms will open in the Cubby Broccoli Building, purpose-built to support creatives with accessibility needs to live and study independently at the heart of its Beaconsfield campus.
Alongside this, its new Accessible Living Bursary will cover rent and reasonable adjustments for eligible students, removing financial barriers as well as physical ones.
Patchwork Hub
Patchwork Hub is an employment platform and jobs board connecting disabled and neurodivergent people, carers and others needing accessible work practices to job opportunities with inclusive employers.
Alongside its jobs board, Patchwork Hub also supports employers across their whole accessibility and disability inclusion journey, from attraction and recruitment to retention of talent. It provides a range of training, consultancy and support packages to drive forward change within organisations.
The company also has a strong track record of working with policymakers and government to drive forward policy and legislative change for a more disability inclusive and accessible world.
Ramsay Health Care UK
Ramsay Health Care UK is one of the five largest independent healthcare providers in the country, with over 30 hospitals across England delivering care to privately funded and NHS patients.
The organisation champions diversity through its People and Culture forum, a democratically elected group of colleagues dedicated to helping all colleagues feel valued.
It also runs People Resource Groups (PRGs) – employee-led groups focused on connecting employees with common identities.
During Naidex, Ramsay’s Talent Acquisition team attended alongside its Disability and Neurodiversity PRG to connect with future talent.
Send it to Alex
Send it to Alex provides neuro-inclusion consultancy, training, and specialist support to help leaders build workplaces where different brains can thrive.
The company’s tailored consultancy, interactive workshops, and CPD-accredited programmes are grounded in lived experience and expert insight. Each service is designed to equip and empower organisations to strengthen adjustment processes, improve everyday systems, and embed inclusive working practices.
Alongside its organisational work, Send it to Alex supports autistic professionals, people with ADHD, and other neurotypes through specialist services and one-to-one guidance.
The LILAC Centre
Led by Small Business Britain, and supported in partnership with Lloyds and ARU Peterborough, the LILAC Centre brings lived experience, innovation and practical support together to remove barriers, build confidence and create real opportunities for disabled founders to thrive.
Through research, collaboration and a growing community of entrepreneurs, organisations and allies, the LILAC Centre is working to shape a fairer, more inclusive future for business.
The organisation delivers free resources, including webinars, online and in-person networking events and a mentoring programme, to help champion inclusive entrepreneurship and spotlight businesses being led by disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent entrepreneurs.
The Disability Force
The Disability Force helps disabled professionals, entrepreneurs and organisations navigate work, business and AI with clarity, strategy and confidence.
Its work combines lived experience, the practical Disability Force Framework, and evidence-based coaching certified by the University of Cambridge.
During Naidex, the organisation encouraged attendees to share their career aspirations, ask about specialist disability-informed coaching and explore its Accessible AI Adoption pilot programme.