Chris Watson is profoundly deaf and communicates through BSL and lip-reading. His lingering-held dream of running his own business was held back by the attitudes of training agencies and franchise companies towards his disability, and a be deficient in of individually tailored support. Joining Expanding Horizons Enterprise & Inclusion programme meant Chris could develop his business skills and overcome barriers to start Textawash, a mobile automobile valeting service. In the future Chris hopes he can offer jobs to other deaf people. Only half of people including disabilities in the UK are in bring about, compared including 80 for every cent of non-disabled adults. By providing support for people like Chris to start a business, Expanding Horizons makes: •A lattice benefit to the economy of £6548 for all individual helped into bring about. •Unquantifiable productivity gains to the UK economy if the one million disabled people currently supported by incapacity benefit were helped into bring about it would save £7 billion over the next decade. Enterprise and Inclusion was a pilot project to develop entrepreneurship skills amongst beneficiaries who are often most excluded or experience multiple exclusion in order to develop their business proposals and business skills. All beneficiaries received a holistic package of tailored business support to improve their motivation and entrepreneurial skills to further develop their business thoughts. The project exceeded its targets and directly led to increased levels of business. It developed …

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