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c/o AKM Accounting
29 Turbine Way
Swaffham
Norfolk
PE37 7XD
We design and build bespoke online education/training for our clients. We can work with you to create interactive multimedia learning experiences for your staff, students or an external audience, potentially generating a new source of passive income!
Everything is customised to the client and the project, whether it\'s communication skills training for healthcare professionals, a course on legal ethics for trainee lawyers, or an online summer school for ecology enthusiasts... We use eye-catching visuals, engaging activities like quizzes and branching scenarios, videos and animations to bring topics to life.
We also draw on our lived experience of sight loss to run digital accessibility training which is ideal for organisations in the early stages of their accessibility journey. With 1 in 5 people in the UK having a disability or long-term condition, ensuring your website and social media are accessible is absolutely vital - we can help you do that.
I run the business with my brother - he and I share a genetic form of macular degeneration which affects our vision, so for us accessibility and inclusion are personal passions, not just tickbox exercises!
We pride ourselves on creating accessible online learning and we\'ve been fortunate to work on some projects that specifically promote diversity and inclusion, for example collaborating with the fantastic social enterprise Diversity & Ability on disability inclusion training for the United Nations World Food Programme (available in 4 different languages to staff all around the world) and Sony Pictures.
We also run training sessions on digital accessibility to help other organisations kickstart their journey towards greater accessibility and inclusion.
As an online-focussed business, we\'re lucky that a lot of our current practices are already environmentally-friendly options: we work from home, so the vast majority of our meetings are virtual, and neither of us drives so we use public transport when we do travel to meetings or conferences.
That said, we\'re always looking for new ways to become more sustainable. I took part in both the Sustainability Basics and Business for Good programmes run by Small Business Britain which helped me to think about the broader ecosystem in which we\'re operating and small changes I could make, even things like purchasing work stationery from suppliers committed to sustainability.
In February 2023 we had our website audited by the Eco-Friendly Web Alliance (with its mission of \'one million eco-friendly websites by 2030\') and were pleased to hear that it met the eco standard as it emits less than 1g of carbon per page view.
As a business, we look at the UN\'s 17 Sustainable Development Goals to think about sustainability in a broad sense, and we\'re very proud to have worked on projects which align with these: encouraging a new generation of ecologists, educating healthcare professionals caring for LGBTQI+ patients, promoting disability inclusion, or running accessibility training, for example.
We want to give something back, and over the last few years we\'ve donated both time and money to causes that are close to our hearts, from sponsoring a local girls\' football team (in an effort to level the playing field in a male-dominated sport - go Vipers!) to donating 1% of our 2022 turnover to Moorfields Eye Charity (to support research into blindness and visual impairments).
Outside of work, I spent three years volunteering as a trustee and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion lead for Citizens Advice Tendring, a charity that supports the most vulnerable people in a district that includes the most deprived area in England, by offering advice and practical support with issues like debt, unemployment, and the cost of living crisis and running a mental health recovery programme.
I\'ve also volunteered with IntoUniversity, an organisation that encourages young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to consider higher education or entrepreneurship as pathways.
I\'m passionate about encouraging and supporting other female entrepreneurs. I\'m an active member of the Ambitious Women in Essex community and through this I was selected to represent the small business sector at a series of roundtables organised by ECC.
I was recently asked to be a volunteer author of a chapter in a new book about how to make learning accessible which will be published in 2025.
We\'re excited to work with ORB and other members to learn more and continue our journey as a responsible business!