Built with disabled makers, not for them.
Enable Studios CIC is a London-based community interest company that teaches young disabled people the skills to create with emerging technology.
Our Social Impact Plan, in brief
Enable Studios CIC is a London-based community interest company that teaches young disabled people the skills to create with emerging technology. Our Social Impact Plan sets out our pilot programme: a six-month tutoring and mentorship course for disabled young people aged 16+, delivered initially across Tower Hamlets, Southwark and Hackney, covering filmmaking, directing, cinematography, AI for creativity, and immersive technologies.
The programme culminates in two public-facing outputs produced entirely by participants: a short film and a digital exhibition. These outputs are the proof point of the model — that with the right access, tuition and mentorship, disabled young people can produce technically ambitious, original creative work and be seen doing it.
How Enable Studios started
In 2025, after finishing his master's in Creative Computing at UAL, our founder Olawale Okunrinboye recognised that disabled young Londoners were being marginalised in the ever-changing world of technological creativity. Enable Studios exists to close that gap — building a studio where access, tuition and ambition sit side by side.
"Technology should adapt to people, not the other way round."
What we exist to do
We run six-month studio cohorts for young disabled creators, teaching immersive tech, filmmaking, sound, design and creative coding. Every cohort ends with a public film and a digital exhibition — credited, archived, celebrated. Participation is free, forever.
The future we are building
Enable Studios exists to unlock technological creativity for people living with disability — not as an act of charity, but as a matter of respect, fairness, and equality.
We believe disabled people belong at the centre of creative and technological innovation, not at its margins. For too long, the tools shaping culture — filmmaking, artificial intelligence, immersive media — have been built, taught, and platformed without disabled people in the room. We exist to change that, starting with the young people who will define what comes next.
Respect means every person we work with is met as a creator with something real to say, never as a subject of inspiration or a box to tick. Fairness means access is built into everything we do from the outset — not offered as an afterthought, and never conditional on proving disability through diagnosis or paperwork. Equality means disabled people are given the same tools, the same technical rigour, and the same creative ambition as anyone else — because that is what genuine inclusion actually requires.
Our goal is to become a well-established, UK-wide creative platform for people living with disability — a place where disabled creators are trained, credited, and connected to real industry pathways, not just given a taste of what's possible and left there.
We are building for the long term. The work we do today — teaching skills, capturing heritage, producing films and exhibitions — is designed to outlast any single funding cycle or cohort. We want Enable Studios to be part of the infrastructure that benefits disabled communities and wider society for generations, not a project that disappears when its founders move on.
This is the standard we hold ourselves to, and the standard we ask every partner, funder, and collaborator to hold with us.
A non-profit-distributing Community Interest Company
- Asset lock: everything we own — equipment, funds, IP — is legally locked to our community mission. It can never be sold off for private profit.
- Non-profit-distributing: surpluses go back into more cohorts, more equipment, more access — never dividends.
- Community-tested: we file an annual community-interest report with Companies House, publicly available.