There is a record number of disabled entrepreneurs in the UK. This isn't progress – it's out of necessity
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Perhaps that’s the reason the Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs clocked up a record number of entries this year. With some disabled people attending tens, even hundreds, of interviews with people who see the disability rather than the person, many end up setting up their own businesses because they don’t have any other option. You’d still need the awards, because there would still be disabled people wanting to go it alone and they would still face formidable barriers. We just need to get to a place where the businesses launched by disabled entrepreneurs are, like those launched by able bodied entrepreneurs, passion products set up by people who take the plunge because they’re fed up of working for the Man rather than because they can’t.
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