About Us
Enabled by Design is a social business run on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of our community.
Enabled by Design was inspired by co-founder Denise Stephens' experiences following her diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in 2003. Having suffered a series of disabling relapses and hospital admissions, Denise was assessed by an Occupational Therapist (OT) and given a range of assistive equipment to help her to be as independent as possible. Although this equipment made a huge difference to her life, she became frustrated as her home started to look more and more like a hospital. But Denise had an idea...
In April 2008, Enabled by Design was chosen to take part in the first ever Social Innovation Camp. A weekend long competition, Social Innovation Camp brings together people with ideas of how to solve specific social issues, with web developers, designers and those with business expertise to develop online solutions to real world challenges.
At the end of the weekend after a Dragons' Den-style pitching competition, Enabled by Design was awarded first prize as the 'project with most potential'. The panel of judges included innovation expert Charles Leadbeater, Bebo co-founder Paul Birch, Yahoo technical evangelist Christian Heilmann and head of the Young Foundation's Launchpad, Simon Tucker.
Since then Denise and her co-founder, Dominic Campbell, have been working hard to spread the word about Enabled by Design and get people involved to share their views and experiences of assistive equipment - yes, that means you!
Enabled by Design was inspired by co-founder Denise Stephens' experiences following her diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in 2003. Having suffered a series of disabling relapses and hospital admissions, Denise was assessed by an Occupational Therapist (OT) and given a range of assistive equipment to help her to be as independent as possible. Although this equipment made a huge difference to her life, she became frustrated as her home started to look more and more like a hospital. But Denise had an idea...
In April 2008, Enabled by Design was chosen to take part in the first ever Social Innovation Camp. A weekend long competition, Social Innovation Camp brings together people with ideas of how to solve specific social issues, with web developers, designers and those with business expertise to develop online solutions to real world challenges.
At the end of the weekend after a Dragons' Den-style pitching competition, Enabled by Design was awarded first prize as the 'project with most potential'. The panel of judges included innovation expert Charles Leadbeater, Bebo co-founder Paul Birch, Yahoo technical evangelist Christian Heilmann and head of the Young Foundation's Launchpad, Simon Tucker.
Since then Denise and her co-founder, Dominic Campbell, have been working hard to spread the word about Enabled by Design and get people involved to share their views and experiences of assistive equipment - yes, that means you!
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