Breaking Down Barriers. Building Better Businesses. Where lived experience powers potential.
Running a business isn’t always straightforward – especially if you’re managing a disability, long-term health condition, or mental health challenge. But with the right support, you can thrive.
At Business Beyond Barriers, we believe self-employment should be a first-class option. We’re here to provide the practical tools, encouragement, and community that make it possible to build a business on your terms.
Whether you’re just starting out, growing steadily, or exploring the idea of self-employment, our support is designed to meet you where you are – helping you shape a business that works for your needs, your pace, and your goals.
This isn’t about fitting into a system that wasn’t built for you. It’s about creating something better, with your wellbeing at the heart of it.
What We Do
One-to-one coaching and peer mentoring from people who've been there.
Practical support on self-employment, funding, and confidence
Workshops and events that prioritise mental health and resilience
A supportive community where lived experience powers potential and connection
Raising the Standard
We don’t just provide support – we’re also shaping the future of inclusive enterprise.
Through our Supported Self-Employment Quality Standard (SSE-QS), we are setting a benchmark for what good support looks like. This means that organisations working with disabled entrepreneurs can deliver help that is consistent, equitable, and effective.
By combining direct support with a sector-wide quality framework, we’re building both better businesses and a stronger, fairer system.
Why It Matters
Because too many disabled people are excluded from traditional employment.
Because self-employment can unlock independence, purpose, and financial security.
Because lived experience is not just valuable – it’s transformative.
Because barriers shouldn’t stop brilliance.
Business Beyond Barriers – Turning experience into enterprise. Empowering disabled founders. Changing lives. Setting the standard for quality support.
Workshops
Coaching
Business Club
Peer Support
Learn, reflect, grow – at your pace.
Join inclusive, interactive workshops covering everything from confidence and planning to funding and wellbeing.
One-to-one support tailored to you.
Navigate self-employment with confidence, clarity and compassion. Our coaching is flexible, practical, and built around your needs.
A community that builds business – and each other.
Our business club is a safe, supportive space to grow your enterprise, ask questions, and access resources when you need them.
You don’t have to do this alone.
Connect with others who truly get it – because they’ve been there. Share experiences, swap ideas, and build strength together.
We work with:
