Welcome

The 4th Angle is working with emerging and new Enterprises to enable them to support people with learning difficulties, providing training and work experience and supported employment opportunities.

For anyone with a disability, gaining employment is a life-changing experience. A job engenders confidence and self-respect, in contrast to the social exclusion often associated with unemployment. It broadens and develops an individual’s skills and extends social circles – vital elements for a fulfilled life. Our mission is to change lives through employment. We break down the barriers facing people with disabilities and health conditions, and create opportunities in every field at every level.

Did you know?

In the UK there are 7.5 million people of working age with disabling conditions. Only 50% of them are working, compared to 81% of non-disabled people.

The objects of the Company are:

	To support the creation, growth and sustainability of Social Businesses/Enterprises and Social Firms in Suffolk and the Eastern Region.
	To assist the Businesses/Enterprises to promote and provide training and/or employment opportunities for people with disabilities or other severe disadvantage in finding employment.
	To raise awareness regarding Social Enterprise amongst local/regional/national policy makers, financial institutions, employers and venture capitalists; and undertaking activities to promote Social Enterprise in Suffolk and the Eastern Region.
	To advance the education of the public with particular reference to Social Enterprises and Social Firms for the benefits they provide to the public and to their workers.
	To establish or promote or concur in establishing or promoting new companies which aim to create employment for people with disabilities, and the promotion of which shall in any manner be calculated to advance directly or indirectly the objects or interests of the Company. Such companies may take any form, but if they are share companies the Company may acquire and hold or dispose of shares, stock, securities or property issued by such companies, with the aim of continuing to hold at least one quarter of the voting rights in any such companies.
	To promote and improve for the public benefit the economic and social well-being of people living and working in Suffolk and the Eastern Region.
	To support the development of employment opportunities for disabled and disadvantaged people.