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About us
Livability creates opportunities for disabled people and brings life to communities.
We believe everyone should have the freedom to live their lives and have the chance to use their abilities.
We offer a wide range of innovative services to support and empower disabled people throughout their lives. We also provide community organisations with the resources, advice and confidence to impact their neighbourhoods.
We are at the forefront of providing vital services and support to disabled people. In partnership with Livability Housing, we work with over 100 local authorities and have a combined annual turnover of over £50 million.
Our values
Our core values of choice, independence and control shape the way we work. We believe in the equality and unique value of every individual, and create opportunities for people to fulfil their potential and live life to the full. We work in partnership not just with those who use our services, but with their families, local communities and other organisations. Together with Livability Housing, we work with over 8,500 disabled people and their families every year.
Our vision
We want to see a transformed society where disabled and disadvantaged people can live life to the full.
Our mission
Inspired by our Christian ethos we work with disabled and disadvantaged people to achieve real choice, independence and opportunity. We do this through our specialist expertise, the breadth and quality of our services and by campaigning for change.
Our ethos
We derive our inspiration and values from the life, message and teaching of Jesus Christ and the Christian faith. These Christian beliefs shape what we do and provide the basis on which our work is founded.
Our ethos and the values that flow from it, are an expression of our shared commitment to put into practice the teaching of Jesus Christ and our understanding of how God calls us to work in the world.
We warmly welcome people of all faiths, or none to work with us, asking them only to share our commitment to living out our values through their work and serving all unconditionally.
Registered charity number 1116530.
Registered in England number 05967087.
Company limited by guarantee.
Livability is the operating name for Grooms-Shaftesbury.
Press Releases
Opinion Former comment: Livability - how funding cuts are affecting the most vulnerable
As a leading disability charity, Livability is concerned by the sweeping funding cuts the Government is putting in place. Our main worry is that the cuts seem to be having a disproportionate impact on disabled people and other disadvantaged groups in our society.
06/10/2009: Livability: Conservative Party Conference Event
06/10/2009: Livability: Conservative Party Conference Event
29/09/2009: Livability: Labour Party Conference Event, Brighton
29/09/2009: Livability: Labour Party Conference Event, Brighton - politics.co.uk
22/09/2009: Livability: Liberal Democrat Party Conference Event, Bournemouth
22/09/2009: Livability: Liberal Democrat Party Conference Event, Bournemouth - politics.co.uk
Habinteg and Livability Housing Media Statement
Habinteg and Livability Housing Media Statement
Opinion Formers
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Special event coverage
Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
Opinion Former Events
NHF: Leaders’ Forum and Exhibition 2012
This flagship event is a forum for chief executives and chairs of the housing sector to network with each other and learn from a range of high-profile and inspirational speakers from media, political and housing backgrounds. It takes place in Park Plaza Victoria, London.
TACT: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): how to support affected children
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an incurable lifelong condition arising from brain damage caused by maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy. The effects may include physical, mental, behavioural and learning disabilities. However, if diagnosed, the right strategies can transform the lives of those affected. This new Guardian Social Care Network half-day seminar in association with TACT Fostering and Adoption will explain the condition and show what can be done to help.
bpas: Abortion in the US: Popularity, Politics and Practice
We often hear of the ‘Americanisation’ of abortion politics in the UK, but unpicking the substantive threats to women’s reproductive rights in the US can be a challenge. The 2012 bpas public lecture will explore the current state of abortion politics in the US and, at a time when abortion appears increasingly politicised in the UK, reflect on what lessons can be drawn by those keen to protect women’s reproductive autonomy elsewhere.
Cogent SSC: UK Nuclear Skills Awards - 22nd March 2012
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BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition and Conference
This one-day event is targeted at professionals operating in the information destruction industry, and aims at keeping delegates updated on recent developments in their sector, providing an opportunity to network with fellow professionals, whilst offering access to an informative exhibition and a comprehensive conference programme.
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