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Consult Seated

Driving your accessibility journey

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Business Accessibility driven by lived experience

Consult Seated

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Consult Seated

Driving your accessibility journey

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Business Accessibility driven by lived experience

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About Us

Consult Seated are disability advocates and is a growing brand within the disabled community. We are based in Durham, UK and were founded by Kat Paylor-Bent who is a full-time wheelchair user and mother to a son with complex autism.

We started as a adaptive clothing design business  helping to meet the needs of other disabled people, initially specialising in feeding tube protection and weighted blankets. Since 2021, we became more involved in public speaking, training courses and accessibility audit services to help enable businesses and individuals to be more cognizant of accessibility in relation to their specific line of work. We have expertise in building accessibility, adaptive design, and digital accessibility and aim to be the go-to company for accessibility and inclusive design expertise in the future.

Our Services

Accessibility and inclusivity can be overwhelming and guesswork for businesses; that's where we come in!

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Public Speaking

We are passionate about spreading the message of how to support the disabled community and how to implement universal design, book us for your next event

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Digital Audits

Your website is your virtual front window, but can all your customers fully access it? We audit to the highest standard and provide you with clear guidance on any improvements

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Accessibility Audits

Our friendly , professional site based audits, will give you practical advice on making your physical assets accessible for all customers

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Accessibility Training

Give your business the leading edge and learn from Trainers who have lived experience of disability

Why Choose Us

Passion

Anyone who has spent time with Kat our founder knows that she is passionate about making the life of anyone with a disability easier. This passion and drive are what keep her and her team going despite her personal challenges. If Consult Seated can help one family have an easier transition through disability, then we have achieved what we have set out to do.

Universal Design

All of our products and services are designed and developed to be accessible to those in the disabled community along with those who are able-bodied too.

Collaboration

This is the core of our business, all of our ideas and products are developed by working in partnerships with our customers, suppliers, industry changemakers and the numerous disability advocates we work with.

Education

This is where we are at our happiest, we feel it is no good working with organisations to create products and services that are accessible to the disabled community if we are not prepared to shout about the need for change. Due to our founders lived experience of being disabled, we spend a lot of time speaking, training, auditing and advocating businesses, forums and conferences to make the change happen


The spending power of disabled households known as the
"Purple Pound" is estimated to be worth a staggering £200 million a month in the UK alone

Let our lived experience accessibility experts support your journey to making your business accessible to all via universal design, to access the Purple Pound and widen your customer reach

Contact us via the channels below, to start your accessibility journey….

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