Momentum works in partnership throughout the UK to enable and empower disabled and excluded people to identify and achieve their goals.

We currently assist more than 2,000 people across the country each year in the areas of brain injury, spinal injury, mental health, physical disability, learning disability, employment, community rehabilitation and care.

Operating in 33 locations across the UK, we provide training and rehabilitation  services which help people to move towards education, training and jobs. 

Formerly known as Rehab Scotland, we changed our name to Momentum in March 2003 to better reflect the positive developments taking place in our organisation.

Momentum is part of the Dublin-based Rehab Group , a not-for-profit organisation which has been leading the way internationally in the provision of services for disabled people since 1949.

Each year more than 56,000 people access Rehab Group's training, employment, social care and commercial services in the Group's network of 200 centres across Ireland, the UK, Poland and the Netherlands.

Momentum also has two sister services in the UK: The Chaseley Trust and TBG Learning .  Each of these organisations share the same philosophy and values as Momentum, namely to provide a range of programmes that assist disabled and excluded people to move towards work and independance and to learn in their own communities. 

Giving our service users a voice in shaping services is one of Momentum's priorities. Malcolm Chisholm MSP, former Minister for Health and Community Care, launched Momentum's service users' Charter of Rights and Responsibilities in October 2002.

Now the charter is complemented by Momentum's National Service Users' Council, formed in 2003 to ensure service users are represented at all levels of the organisation, and are given the chance to contribute to the design, development, monitoring and evaluation of our services.

Our care division, Momentum Care was set up in 2004. We offer flexible social care services to people with a wide variety of needs including those with a physical or learning disability, Alzheimer's, dementia, HIV-related difficulties, and terminal illness.

In 2004, social enterprise firm Haven Products joined the Momentum group. Haven Products provides meaningful employment and development opportunities for disabled people while operating as a commercially viable business from its three sites across Scotland: Hillington, Ballieston and Inverness. Around 80% of Haven Products' staff have a disability.

Momentum now employs almost 450 staff, 29 percent of whom have a disability.

We are active members of a number of professional bodies, including the European Platform for Rehabilitation and the Social Care Association. Momentum has been accepted as an Approved Provider of social care services by a range of local authorities.

For facts and figures about specific service areas please click here.

Momentum Scotland is a company limited by guarantee and having charitable status. Registered in Scotland no SC127950. Scottish Charity No SC004328. Registered Office: Pavilion 7 Watermark Park, 325 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2SE.