National Centre for Independent Living

Campaigning for the rights and equality of disabled people.

Canterbury Court 1-3 Brixton Road

NCIL is a National support, advice and consultancy organisation that aims to enable disabled people to be equal citizens with choice, control, rights and full economic, social and cultural lives.

We believe in the "social model of disability", which means when we talk about "disabled" people, we mean how society disables us by the way that it treats and excludes us whatever our impairment. We focus on how and where society fails to include disabled people by "disabling" attitudes and barriers and aim to reduce and remove those barriers.

We are a not-for-profit, membership organisation, run and controlled by disabled people.