Sponsorship

Sponsorship opportunities

Get your brand seen by our 600+ members, 30,000 social media followers and 9,000 newsletter recipients. It’s a great way to help us deliver our events, resources and research while showing your commitment to disability inclusion.  

Reach organisations of all sizes from a range of industries across the private, public and voluntary sectors. Our audience includes diversity and inclusion leaders, hiring managers, talent teams, recruiters, HR policy makers, educators and policy makers. 

We have a range of sponsorship packages available that can be tailored to meet your organisation’s needs.  

Organisations who have benefited from sponsorship include NatWest, Lloyds Banking Group, Microsoft, Oliver James, HSBC and Microlink. 

Sponsoring and hosting our events

We host a number of in-person and online events throughout the year. Our events range in size from our flagship Annual Conference and Disability Smart Awards to intimate webinars. We’re looking for event sponsors and inspiring, interesting and accessible spaces to host our events. 

By sponsoring or hosting an event, you can expect to reach more than 500 delegates on the day plus reach our broad and diverse network of contacts through an extensive event marketing campaign.  

“HSBC was proud to partner with Business Disability Forum (BDF) as sponsor for their 2024 Global conference, ‘Disability inclusion in a changing world’. It was great to be part of this event featuring speakers from across the globe, all with a united aim – to foster a more inclusive world for disabled people. A packed programme full of great discussions and insights.”

Carolanne Minashi, Global Head of Inclusion, HSBC

“Hosting the Business Disability Forum Summer Reception was a great opportunity for our firm to showcase Enabled, our disability inclusion focussed People Network, and openly share our commitment to creating a specific disability & neurodiversity inclusion strategy in the near future. Taking the time to not only celebrate and recognise all that BDF do and have achieved over the last year, and connecting with other like-minded organisations and individuals has only strengthened our drive to progressing disability inclusion within the legal sector and beyond, furthering our opportunities to collaborate across industries and communities.” 

Safia Kukaswadia, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Specialist, DLA Piper 

Sponsoring our Knowledge Hub resources

Our Knowledge Hub offers a wide range of resources and toolkits to support our Members and Partners to deliver disability-smart businesses.  

By sponsoring a resource, your logo will be included on all resource elements. We’ll also include your logo in all resource marketing including email campaigns, newsletters, paid & organic social media and display advertising.   

• Our Knowledge Hub resources had 110,000 downloads in the last year.  
• Our social media channels have over 30,000 followers.
• Our emails are seen by an audience of over 9,000 recipients.  

We also offer cost-effective bundling packages, giving you the opportunity to sponsor an event and any related resources. For example, Texthelp sponsored four Global webinars plus the Global Toolkit maximising reach and exposure.   

 Sponsoring our research

Our research generates new knowledge and brings bold and fresh approaches to policy problems, so that disabled people have better experiences of social and economic inclusion. 

By sponsoring a research piece, your logo will be included across all elements of the research project from gathering the data to promotion and publication.  

Our last big research project – The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey had nearly 1,900 respondents and over 2,500 visitors to its website section.  

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