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		<title>Mike Adams podcast with Cura Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Case study: One Chelmsford working to create an accessible destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mike Wray, BID Manager for One Chelmsford highlights why becoming a Purple Partner has focused their work to ensure Chelmsford City Centre is an accessible destination for disabled people and their families. The why Creating an accessible and inclusive destination is a key objective for&#160;One Chelmsford, a Business Improvement District (BID) in Essex. It makes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Distant Cousin</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hidden in the frequency of election coverage last week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)&#160;reported that in 2018, the average pay for disabled employees was 12.2% lower than the average pay for non-disabled employees.&#160; This is the first official report of its type and it is clear to see there is a disability pay gap. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Talking with longstanding friends over the weekend, we touched on the subject of drive and self-motivation; discussing whether these attributes are innate and/or can be learned. Together we identified there are four core elements to these behaviours, which are: Purpose, Personal, Influence and Impact. Arguably the most important, there needs to be a purpose to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It’s not just about communication, but ….</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Effective communication is vital to our work. Since Purple Tuesday, two weeks ago, I have engaged with even more people and organisations than I did in the run up to the day. The impact of communications is clear. The promotion and exposure generated by participating organisations – alongside high-profile media coverage – has helped force [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What have Microsoft, Fullers, Regatta, Sky, Bespoke Hotels and Cadbury Outlet shops got in common? In the last seven days they have registered to participate in Purple Tuesday. All these organisations have joined almost 2,000 other participants in making commitments which improve the customer experience for disabled people and their families. All of them are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Disabled people – we are all powerful influencers</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week I was recognised in the Shaw Trust Power 100 List of Britain’s most influential disabled people. It’s an important accolade both for me personally and for the work we are doing at Purple to demonstrate the opportunity of the £249 billion disability market (the Purple Pound). On my way to the Power 100 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than 13 million people in the UK – a fifth of the population – are disabled. A new poll of people who consider themselves to be disabled has found that more than half of respondents are struggling to make purchases of a product/service due to their disability. Disabled young people (aged 16-24) fare the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Last May Purple, with KPMG, launched Leading from the Front: The role of the Board. See here. The aim was to engage Boards on disability issues from their responsibilities for staff, customers, work with supply chains and wider stakeholders. The report was well received across the business sector as the first comprehensive over view of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Purple is pleased to be recognised for the work it is starting to undertake to increase its international footprint. Last Sunday, while the UK was starting to freeze, Mike Adams – our CEO – was being recognised at a Gala Dinner in Dubai as part of the inaugural Global Health Pioneer Awards. Unfortunately (for him!) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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