Universal Recognition CIC

“Member’s Monthly Meet-Up” every 3rd Thursday of the month. A chance for our members to stay-connected with their community and plan personal or commuty-wide cultural, accessibility or social-wellbeing projects. Our members are Disabled, d/Deaf or Neurodivergent creatives. They shape, start and take-part-in impactful & equitable: * Accessibility * Wellbeing * Cultural projects. What they have to say. UR’s community network is: “A bridge between me & the mainland” “A place where I don’t need to mask” “ Somewhere where we feel normal” “An opportunity where we can be ambitious!” If you are a UK based Disabled or Neurodivergent creative or accessibility specislist who wishes to join UR’s membership you can get-in-touch via our LinkedTree... Description: A continuous creative collage of images showing photographs of UR members at online and in person creative meet-ups. There are cut out stickers including: headphones, sparkling sensory rocks, a glitter-ball, a speaker and sunglasses. The text reads the same as in the caption.

Here at Universal Recognition we most often speak to folks who are enthusiastic about accessibility but just aren’t sure where on earth to start. We can help with those initial steps. Our work will increase your confidence in tackling accessibility and inclusion with your teams. You can hire us for our UR range of accessibility improvement services for projects, consultations, speaking events, training and workshops. This is a bespoke, high end, paid commission service only. We do not accept speculative or voluntary projects. We do however work with all sectors be they private, public or voluntary - this is right for you no matter your service. Our services are dependant on availability. Please DM us if accessibility is an area you are keen to improve and develop but you are unsure where to start. In the meantime you can also follow us here for bite sized hot accessibility tips. Our ‘Let’s Do This’ highlight and posts are all about small actions you can take to start improving your mindset and knowledge. Together we can: 1. Offer Disabled professionals and service users the recognition they deserve. 2. Up your skill level so you too can recognise excellent accessibility opportunities that will benefit everyone. Simple. Comment ‘Let’s do this!’ below if you would like a link to our current accessibility tips sent direct to your inbox. Image description: A digital illustration. Two purple hands on a black background hold the phrase ‘Let’s Do This’ in the centre of the image. Dotted white lines burst out in all directions from the hands. Surrounding these lines and the hands are differing abstract shapes in differing colours. Some look like sound icons, others thought clouds, others look wobbly and stretchy. They make the image look alive and vibrant as a result of what the hands are doing. #Accessibility #Disability #DisabledPeople #ChangeMakers #Wellbeing #ProfessionalDevelopment #EquityAndInclusion #SocialChange #WellbeingEconomics #Economics #Sustainability #Respect #SelfImprovement

I noticed you sat there, equal parts curious and a little confused about this post. You seem like an intrepid explorer, I like that in you! Following this account just might open your world up to a whole Universe of knowledge and possibility… What is @universalrecognitionsatellite ? This is the landing page for the Universal Recognition (UR) movement on Instagram. UR is an accessibility positive movement. It exists to enable: 🔭 Service providers, creators and decision makers to develop their accessibility and EDI 🧑🏾‍🚀 Disabled led innovation and marginalised folks to have a voice within top level decision making 🚀 Everyone to navigate towards a future that is fit for us all This account is for you want to: ✨ Connect with other stellar members of the Disabled and marginalised communities leading the movement 🧑🏾‍🚀 🔭 Explore and innovate accessibility for your business, policy making and services with Disability and EDI experts 🌎 Better understand how accessibility can benefit people and the planet Founder @rebeccaleestudio ImageDescription: The @universalrecognitionsatellite profile picture. It is a digital illustration drawn in white lines on a dark background. It shows a diverse group of folks standing in front of a starry sky. Some of the people are in wheelchairs, some are children, some wear hijabs, some are wrapped in duvets, some have straight hair, some have afros and someone is in the middle of signing ‘welcome’ in British Sign Language. Underneath them in capitol letters is a large UR - an acronym for Universal Recognition. #Accessibility #DisabilityConsultation #UniversalRecognition #DisabilityExperts #Disability #DisabledLed #DisabledLedBusiness #AccessibilityPositive #a11y

Member’s Online Shared Workspace, Thursday, May 21st. A chance for our members to focus on their own projects, tasks or creativity & stay connected remotely with their community. This calm & creative shared online working space is shaped through solidarity. It is created for our community by our community. Our members are Disabled, d/Deaf, Chronically-ill or Neurodivergent creatives. They shape, start & take-part-in: - Accessibility - Wellbeing - Cultural shared projects. If you are a UK based Disabled or Neurodivergent creative or accessibility specialist who wishes to join UR’s membership you can get-in-touch via our LinkedTree... Description: slides with the text written above. Photographs are shown of UR members on the shared workspace call and working independently on their practices. Illustrations show scrap books with plants blooming from within screens and trailing out around the page. The last illustration shows someone in a hospital bed using a tablet device. Inside the person’s outline is a mountain sea scape. Flowing out from the tablet are photos of family, a starry expansive sky and an illustration of a group doing seated yoga.

Our next members’ session this Friday will be ‘A Phoenix Session’. Let’s get together to build a better beautiful world world. Together we can achieve amazing things out of the ashes of the systems that have already failed us. Text on slide: Universal Recognition - A Phoenix Workshop This month’s members’ meet-up topic. Friday 13th March 6:30pm online. Regular workshops where members can share their creative ideas for fairer futures together. There will be opportunities to discuss personal projects, support each other’s activity and pitch ideas to work on as a community’. Image: A bright glowing paper cut out bird rises against a dark paper background. It is surrounded with colourful glowing embers in rainbow hues. #Accessibility #AccessibilityForAll #UniversalRecognition #Design #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Liberation Library This month’s members’ meet-up topic. Friday 13th February 6:30pm online. An evening where we will start to create a library of accessible community resources. These resources will aid us in our mission imagining and building fairer futures fit for all. Description: A graphic with the afore mentioned text. A group of people some in wheelchairs, wrapped in blankets or using mobility aids make up a circle. They are joined together by integrated lines of connection. The space around them is filled with floating symbols. The symbols are abstract but could represent the following: leaves, a thought cloud, a diagram book, audio-waves, a free flowing stream, a slow paced snail shell, a telescope, hands gesturing and a sticky seed. #FutureLibrary #Library #Accessible #AccessibleLibrary #UniversalRecognition

Exciting news on this International Day of Disabled Persons folks! We are now officially Universal Recognition CIC Text reads: Universal Recognition CIC. It’s happened folks! The Universal Recognition movement is now officially a community interest company. And so it begins! Alongside Universal Recognition’s logo.

Hi folks. These times are getting increasingly troubling but we have got each other’s backs… Are you an artist, community or org trying to make the world a better place during these troubled times? Come down next Thursday for some active solidarity and sanctuary. We will find gentle, restorative and resilient ways forwards together. When Thursday 16th October from 3pm Where Meeting Room 1, The Social Hub Glasgow, 15 Candleriggs Glasgow G1 1TQ. Who With? Hosts: @universalrecognitionhub Panelists: @josielong , @refuweegee and @plantpowered_poet hosted by @rebeccaleestudio founder of Universal Recognition. Reserve your space early as we have a limited number and this one will be popular - Info on our page’s Linked Tree Tag Scottish creatives and communities you know will love to know about this in the comments. Here are some of the fab creative practitioners who have organised the event who will be in the room to connect with: @vini_design_art @calgrevers @jamesmacdougallart @_max.phillips @rosswilcockmedia @beckispainting @silvercoatedbushytailed And many more besides. Image description: graphics explaining the event that read ‘Are you an artist, oganisation or campaigner overwhelmed yet trying to make things better for your community? Do you need a place to find support and foster solidarity? Are you seeking rest, creativity and connection with others who understand ? Come down to the Social Hub Glasgow on Thursday 16th October at 3pm for - Working Together in Troubled Times as creatives, communities and grass-roots organisers in Scotland - Your space for sanctuary and active solidarity’. There is also a list of the event activities a panel on storytelling for change, workshops of finding pathways forwards during uncertainty and sharing ways to stay connected and to help each other. If you would like a full transcript for this text please drop an ‘access all areas transcript please’ in the comments. The images show joyful photographs and illustrations from UR’s past projects of folks from all walks of life coming together to make the world a better place.

Working Together In Troubled Times as Organisers in Scotland. A chance for grass-root organisers and communities to gather together and work through the challenges we face. We will be hosting a: 🎤 Creative panel and Q&A on ‘Storytelling for change’ with panelists: Selina Hales founder of @refuweegee @josielong comedian and author Gray Crosbie aka @plantpowered_poet ✨Workshop ‘Finding pathways forwards during challenging times of uncertainty’ with our ‘Vision in the Dark’ wisdom deck designed by our blind led creative group. 🙌🏻 Accessible Community connections - Sharing what your community needs right now and what can it offer others? Date and time Thursday, October 16 · 3 - 6:30pm GMT+1 Location The Social Hub Glasgow 15 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1TQ Access: Rebecca a white woman in her 30s speaks to camera. She has dark green eyes and long wavy dark strawberry blond hair.

Reflecting on our first full year running our official Disabled and neurodivergent led, Scotland based, design community. Sending much warmth and gratitude to everyone who has created with or supported us this year. You made so much possible. We have faced many challenges and yet have so much to all feel proud of. And we are just getting started - there is much more accessibility positivity yet to come. We equally look forward to reconnecting with our wider UK community over the next year. Something new and very exciting on the horizon… Thank you to our collaborators and supporters for your work, community and creativity the past 12 months. A special shout out to: @refuweegee @creative_dundee @neukcollective @doughnuteconomics @themeltingpoted @vini_design_art @lydiajstew @brandnewsomewhereagain @gsasustainability @gsa_designinnovation And especially our magnificent Scotland members, old and new, present on Instagram: @thisthingtheycallrecovery @rosswilcockmedia @calgrevers @shaz_mrcls @meronshea @_max.phillips @jamesmacdougallart @yogaema And to our rest of UK past project collaborator members who we look forward to sharing the exciting news with soon: @neuro_natal @disability.living @ms_t3rri @poppychristobel You are all doing such fabulous work in your own communities and specialisms. The Universal Recognition movement only gets braver and stronger from here. Here is to another year of courage, creativity and change! With warmth, @rebeccaleestudio Universal Recognition Founder

We have something exciting happening the launchpad of a very Good Idea! Use code ‘TMP’ for 15% off! - Hear our powerful stories - Connect with like-minded people - Celebrate the start of our journeys - Grassmarket Community Project, Edinburgh 5:00–7:30pm This event is proudly supported by @breeze_digitaluk , @grassmarketcommunity , Zing Coaching, @_if_studio and @firstportscotland helping us empower ethical startups and reinvest in people & planet Join us there via link tree on our home page Description: Rebecca a white woman in her 30s speaks to the camera. She is wearing reflective wing earrings that shine iridescent gold, green and magenta in the light. There is an info graphic at the end with the information repeated in this caption. #GoodIdeasScotland #SocialInnovation #Changemakers #ScotlandEvents #ImpactForGood #PeopleAndPlanet #EthicalBusiness

What a night! We had a fantastic evening last weekend at @universalrecognitionsatellite with ‘Vision in the Dark’. The event was Glasgow’s first event for shaping flourishing futures even in dark times - hosted and curated by our blind artists @jamesmacdougallart @rosswilcockmedia , Conor Joseph and Roy Watson. The event was open to all folks exploring fairer futures during tricky times. We had a fantastic turn out with folks from all walks of life, specialisms and levels of influence attending. Thank you to everyone who came down. You made the event what it was - joyful, courageous and beautiful. Thank you also for the fab turn out from @visibilityscotland and @creative_dundee who brought such a bright spark to the room. We wanted folks without any connection with Disability to be able to benefit from the event, wisdom guides and presentations. From the feedback we received we can say this was an absolute success! Thank you to our fabulous artists and facilitators @brandnewsomewhereagain @_max.phillips for guiding people so brilliantly through their own challenges and ideas for fairer futures. After such positive feedback how could we not plan more of these evenings in the coming year both online and in-person. If you wish you had been in the room with us or are curious to know more pop a ‘brightest spark’ below alongside any questions you might have. Reel: Photos of our event at the beautiful @thesocialhub.glasgow Our artists host interactive art pieces and workshop activities around round tables adorned in tactile art, creative materials and wisdom cards. Blind creatives and designers give panel talks and demonstrations at the top of the room hosted by @rebeccaleestudio Folks taking part listen attentively and delight in the activities. The spacious room includes lush natural planting and natural window light. The room is a hubbub of creativity and conversation as folks shape pathways towards brighter tomorrows.