Below are workshops, events, presentations and other activities the core group behind AbleOTUK have been up to:

AbleOTUK Newletter June 2026

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AbleOTUK Newsletter April 2026

2025

AbleOTUK meetup 16th Dec 2025 London

AbleOTUK Newsletter Dec 2025

AbleOTUK Newsletter Nov 2025

1st October 2025 – How OTs can comply with HCPC standard of proficiency on culture, equity, diversity – with Rachel Booth-Gardiner

Watch the full video on youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjtG8eA4Rw&time_continue=2353&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcot.co.uk%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcot.co.uk

AbleOTUK newsletter Sep 2025

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AbleOTUK Newsletter July 2025

AbleOTUK Newsletter June 2025

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23rd May 2025 RCOT EDB Insights session – Making occupational therapy more disability inclusive – everyone’s responsibility – with Georgia Vine

In this Georgia explores the challenges of ableism in practice-based learning, the importance of reasonable adjustments and introduces the concept of positive disclosure a strengths-based approach to supporting disabled learners.

Watch in full on here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjtG8eA4Rw&time_continue=2353&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcot.co.uk%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcot.co.uk

April 2025 – Rest do Days an occuation-centred approach to fatigue Article in OT News written by AbleOTUK’s Rachel Booth-Gardiner, Andy Chapman in Conversation with Dr Wendy Bryant who wrote the book Rest do days

AbleOTUK Newsletter April 2025

March 2025 – AbleOTUK – Open Letter from AbleOTUK: Opposing Cuts and Calling for Co-Production to Tackle the Real Barriers Faced by Disabled People.

Open Letter from AbleOTUK: Opposing Cuts and Calling for Co-Production to Tackle the Real Barriers Faced by Disabled People.

AbleOTUK March 2025

AbleOTUK Newsletter Feb 2025

AbleOTUK Newsletter January 2025

2024

AbleOTUK Newsletter December 2024

November/December 2024 – Blog for the Health and Care Professions Council – Disability in Healthcare: Celebrating History, Championing Inclusion, and Driving Change https://www.hcpc-uk.org/registrants/in-your-words/2024/disability-history-month-2024/

AbleOTUK Newsletter Nov 2024

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AbleOTUK Newsletter Aug 2025

AbleOTUK Newsletter July 2024

AbleOTUK Newsletter June 2024

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4th May 2024 – Book launch event for Georgia Vine’s ‘Occupational Therapy, Disability Activism, and Me: Challenging Ableism in Healthcare’

2023

December 2023 OT News article – written in collaboration with the University of Southampton Creating a foundation in Allyship

24th November 2023 -The OT Show Creating Spaces for Belonging: Experiences of a disabled newly qualified OT Natalie Hicks, Occupational Therapist and founding member – AbleOTUK

AbleOTUK newsletter Aug 2023

AbleOTUK Newsletter July 2023

15th June 2023 – Royal College of Occupational Therapists Annual Conference 2023

Session 33.2 Retaining the option to dial in: criticality of hybrid in occupational therapy for inclusion and belonging Sam Pywell coordinator: social prescribing unit @UCLAN University of Central Lancashire

Session 39.2 Positive disclosure and placement-specific learning support plans – Georgia Vine Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Huddersfield and Samantha TavenderSenior Lecturer University of Huddersfield

Session 41.2 A personal recovery journey: the challenge I now have for the profession Rachel Booth-Gardiner Lead Occupational Therapist TEWV NHS Trust

AbleOTUK newsletter June 2023

17th May 2023 – Equity, Diversity and Belonging – Awareness, Responsibility, Growth – Presentation at the RCOT Northern and Yorkshire regional come back learning event, join with LGBTQIA+OT and RCOT EDB manager

May 2023 OT News Article – Health and Character declarations – our experience Page 54-55

AbleOTUK Newsletter May 2023

March/April 2023 – The OT Magazine issue 51 page 15-16 (currently unavailable)

AbleOTUK newsletter April 2023

AbleOTUK Newsletter March 2023

AbleOTUK Newsletter Feb 2023

AbleOTUK Newsletter Jan 2023

2nd February 2023 University of Southampton Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging – AbleOTUK Exploring Ableism, Activism and Allyship Workshop

2022 – here all the things we got upto in 2022

AbleOTUK Newsletter Nov 2022

24th November 2022 The OT show- AbleOTUK- Allyship It’s Time to Make It a Meaningful Occupation 24 Nov 2022 13:15 – 14:00 Keynote Theatre

18th November 2022. The Occupational Therapy in Diverse Settings at the University of Brighton Conference – Keynote Presentation – Any Setting Can Be DiverseOT!

November 2022 OT News Article – Disability History Month: Where does occupational therapy fit in? Page 12-15

7th October 2022 – Ableism what is it and are occupational therapists guilty of practising it? presentation for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health partnership NHS as part of their #OTweek CPD event.

10th October 2022 – We hosted a workshop for students at UCLAn

6th October 2022 – World Cerebral Palsy Day social media takeover by a group of OT’s with lived experiences of cerebral palsy.

Throughout September 2022 – We celebrated Deaf awareness month. read the blog post here

24th September 2022 -RCOT West Midlands region – Long covid study morning and networking lunch.

26th July 2022 Hosted an OTalk Celebrating Disability Pride month become an ally

Thoughout July 2022 we ran a Be an AbleOTUK ally twitter campaign. #BeAnAbleOTUKAlly

July 2022 OT News Article – Celebrating Disability Pride Month Page 40-42

29th June 2022 – Speaking at admissions forum and practice placement forum

16th June 2022 – AbleOTUK Who, What Why? Occupational Therapy Integrated Degree Apprenticeship Forum

15th June 2022 – AbleOTUK round table RCOT conference 2022 session 29 (if you had a ticket to #RCOT2022 you can watch this round table event on that platform available for 6 months)

June 7th 2022 – Occupational Therapists Have Disabilities Too! Solihull MBC staff conference.

May 18th 2022 – AffinOT: AffinOT: How You and Your Region Can Get Involved. RCOT Trent Regional event.

14 May 2022 – AbleOTUK team members help facilitate discussion in brake out rooms at RCOT Eastern Region – Do I belong? How do we challenge the differences in BAME occupational therapy career progression

Saturday 23rd April 2022. Occupational Therapy, Ableism, and Coproduction of services. – https://www.otfrontiers.co.uk

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Wednesday 20 April 2022 RCOT EDB Insights: Practising what we preach, disability and inclusion, Delivered by Dr Wendy Bryant Followed by AbleOTUK team members on the Panel

On Wednesday 20 April 2022 we welcomed Dr Wendy Bryant, Honorary Professor in the School of Health and Social Care, at the University of Essex, to talk to us about disability and inclusion in the occupational therapy community.

This session reflected on particular challenges that face disabled occupational therapists, and how working with disabled colleagues may challenge our professional practices. To do this, Dr Bryant took a series of different perspectives, revisiting disability theory, professionalism, two body practice, pragmatic reasoning and occupational form.   

AbleOT UK, a UK occupational therapy network/advocacy group for practitioners, students, researchers, educators and people with disabilities/long term health conditions, worked with Dr Bryant to develop the workshop, and joined Dr Bryant for a panel discussion and Q&A with attendees.

Watch it on youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBW7yFeYKE&t=97s

12th April 2022 – hosted an OTalk Intersectionality: What is it and why should occupational therapists know about it?

January 22nd 2022 Rachel Booth-Gardiner Represented AbleOTUK in this panel discussion.

2021- below is all the things we got up to in 2021

OT Show November 2021 Georgia Vine represented AbleOTUK giving this presentation.
Affinity groups more than just representation or diversity

November 2021 OT Week 2021 – AbleOTUK Involvement Twitter content. Representation within the RCOT launch event

World Cerebral Palsy Day October 6th 2021 Georgia Vine and Rachel Booth-Gardiner Twitter takeover #TeamOTCP

RCOT SS- CYPF Virtual Conference 2021 #CYPF21
Date: Friday 1st October 2021. Equality and Diversity Session Georgia Vine and Susan Griffiths. Twitter timeline

27th Aug 2021 – Real talk with UK occupational therapy affinity groups and Steve Ford CEO RCOT BAMEOTUK podcast Ep14

August 2021: Joint event hosted by @LGBTQIAOTUK, @BAMEOTUK & @AbleOTs Microaggressions webinar Workshop with Rayya Ghul.

Launch of AbleOTUK July 2021 – live web event

Dear OT Campaign for Disability Pride Month July 2021

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