About us

About us

Inclusion support and professional development

Get on top of inclusion and accessibility with tailored strategies, workshops and coaching.

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Consulting and Workshops

in-person or online

The Social Deck offers services to empower and support you and your team to put inclusion into practice. We bring together lived experience of disability and cultural diversity, with extensive field experience engaging and communicating with targeted and diverse communities. We’re active in applying current best practice accessible and inclusive communication and engagement and want to support organisations to do the same. We can help with:

Inclusion Strategy Planning, Development, and Implementation

Learn actionable steps for setting inclusion strategies and putting them into practice, ensuring that plans move from theory to effective execution.

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Accessible Communication and Engagement

Learn how to design communications and/or engagement activities to effectively reach the full breadth of your audience and stakeholders.

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Tailored Inclusion Learning Packages and Coaching

We will address your specific needs, challenges, and opportunities, with coaching to support ongoing improvement and application.

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We offer services to organisations of all sizes, with discounted rates and probono options available for not-for-profits to help advance inclusive practice.

Inclusion Strategy Planning, Development,
and Implementation Consulting

Establishing and embedding inclusive practice in your organisation can be more straightforward and economical than you may think. We can support you in the process of establishing an inclusion strategy that meets the needs and priorities of your organisation and stakeholders.

Foundational review and planning

From when you first begin to explore possibilities for an inclusion strategy, we can assist with identifying and mapping priorities and needs, and to guide you to useful resources.

Strategy drafting

We help you to draft an inclusion strategy and test it with your teams and stakeholders.

Hands on support for strategy implementation in the workplace
Once your strategy is in place, we offer tailored team capability-building and internal change process to ensure that it translates to practical application.

Accessible Communication and Engagement Workshops

We deliver interactive professional development workshops, in-person or online on:

  • Accessible and inclusive community and stakeholder engagement
  • Accessible and inclusive communication.

What to expect

Workshops introduce concepts and best practice for developing and delivering community engagement that: 

  • includes and empowers diverse audiences
  • effectively meets varying access needs.

The workshops are suitable for all levels of your organisation's team. We'll arrange appropriate speakers in line with your team's professional development goals for inclusion and accessibility.

A presenter standing in front of a whiteboard, in front of a group of people sitting around a table.

You will gain:

Awareness and understanding of what it means to be inclusive.

Understanding of how inclusion adds value across all public and commercial communication and engagement.

Practical resources and tools.

Personalised guidance on integrating best practice in your work.

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Tailored Inclusion Learning Packages and Coaching

We can design and adapt both self-driven learning modules and facilitated sessions tailored to the needs of your organisation about how accessibility and inclusion are and can be applied.

Each learning program is designed to equip your team with knowledge and tools to apply best practice inclusion and accessibility for your organisation’s operations and objectives.

    We will work with you to:

    • Pinpoint what your team needs from the learning package
    • Identify your priorities
    • Address the challenges faced
    • Explore the opportunities you want to access
    • Identify resources that support ongoing application and growth

    Our coaching will support your team to:

    • Understand inclusion in their work context
    • Discover, design and adapt solutions to advance their practice

    “Fantastic experience, professional and well-managed. The event was chock-a-block full of useful information and made me excited to think that we can make our events more accessible and it doesn't have to be too hard. Thanks for empowering us to start to better understand things from the perspective of people with disability, and to start to see how we can bring solutions forward. Excellent seminar!!!!”

    Attendee, online seminar on accessible engagement with people with disability

    Get in Touch

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    inclusion practice in your
    organisation??

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    Email: team@thesocialdeck.com
    call us: 0491 617 118

    We can work with your team to design bespoke training and professional development to implement good inclusion practice in your organisation.