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7 Steps to Employment for Disabled People

This guide is to help disabled practitioners in the visual arts and creative industries understand the main stages in generating income through gaining self-employment status. You can use this information to assist either in setting up a business or working as a freelancer on a full time or occasional basis.

The 7 Steps to Self Employment was originally commissioned by Artquest in 2002 an earlier version which is more focused on London based artists and designers can be accessed via the Artquest Website. The text and ideas were devised by Alison Branagan ©2002, a London based artists' enterprise consultant and advisor. For more information on Alison's work, see her site at www.alisonbranagan.com.

Dada South commissioned a more up-to-date version and has produced 7 fact sheets for disabled artists to use. You can access both the Word and pdf versions of these pages here. Kaleido is grateful to Dada South for allowing us to link to these vital pages.

Acknowledgements, eternal thanks and credit to Zoe Partington-Sollinger of Diablo Arts for her many expert contributions and Stevie Rice, Director of Dada-South.

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