The Samee Charity - Helping you to take your next step to your new business & self-employment

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Helping you to take your next steps to self-employment

Disability Confident Leader
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The award winning Support And Mentoring Enabling Entrepreneurship (SAMEE) charity was founded in 2016 following a mission of believing in a world where everyone of all abilities can proudly and independently provide an income for themselves and their families.

SAMEE, a Dorset based level 3 Disability Confident Leader awarded charity, has three values which are Welcoming, Honest and Daring and has a team of people with direct lived experience of managing a disability whilst developing their individual careers. Our service is free at the point of delivery and not limited to ringfenced eligibility criteria.

Our charitable purpose is to enable people to explore self-employment by creatively exploring their ideas and potential with the ultimate aim of helping them achieve financial independence through successful business start-up and/or improved employability prospects. As part of that work, we partner with strategic partners both in employment and education sectors to ensure provision of the highest quality information, advice and guidance.

Our principal activity is to engage with those furthest from the world of work in a delivery style that encourages them and increases self-confidence and motivation.  We believe that exposing people to the different routes into the workplace develops their knowledge, skills and ambitions which ultimately helps them remove the barriers to work that they face. The information, advice and guidance offered to our beneficiaries via our projects is always relevant to their age and disability, and is delivered in a format which is accessible to their needs.

Supported Self Employment Internship

You've Got This UK . . .

The SAMEE Charity is proud to offer the UK’s first bespoke supported self-employment internship programme for special educational needs learners, Inclusive learning that works for all . . .

Our ‘ Steps into Self-Employment '  programme has been accredited as a level 1 customised qualification by NCFE and is available to learners without the need for Maths and English

You've Got This UK

You've Got This UK

You've Got This UK

NCFE-Customised-Qualification
Samee – Base Member 2025-26 – British Association for Supported Employment
Sam & Laura - UN Building Vienna - Zero Project 2025

Sam & Laura - UN Building Vienna

Sam met up with Laura from BASE at The UN Building in Vienna for the Zero Project 2025 conference

Where Sam won an award for our Supported Self Employment Internship . . .

Zero Project International Award

The Zero Project, based in Vienna, Austria, is a research-driver initiative working to make sure that there are “zero-barriers” for people with disabilities

 

The Zero Project is dedicated to creating a world with zero barriers for persons with disabilities

It identifies and shares innovative solutions that enhance the daily lives and legal rights of individuals with disabilities

SAMEE received the award following a selection process that whittled down 522 nominations from 90 countries.

SAMEE won this award for our Supported Self-Employment Internship!

Sams Idea - Enable Disabled People

Support & Training for special educational needs learners

Training & Support for Employment Advisers & Careers Practitioners

If you would like to find out more about our CPD Accredited Training / Workshops and how they might be used in your setting . . .

Either : Visit  Celtrose Consultancy Training  -  Or contact The Team on 01202 424477

Learn more about how to support & assist young people with SEND to prepare for adulthood including Pathways to Self Employment . . .

Celtrose-Consultancy

UK Register of Learning Providers

Also . . .
Here at The Samee Project we are very proud to say we are registered with the UK Register of Learning Providers

UKPRN - 10061120

 

You've Got This - More Info & Learning

Start Up Loans

We are really pleased to be working in partnership with Start Up Loans so we can offer you the financial support, as well as a business mentor, to realise your self-employment goals.

Working with us will give you a business canvas and plan to start developing your ideas and opportunities to develop your new career . . .

We should be up & running next week . . .

Start-up Loans - Read More . . .